So, I recently moved to New York and soon got hold of a free ticket for Tribeca Film Festival. What should I watch? An Asian movie, of course… so I ended up seeing the premier of this great, new, Vietnamese martial art/action movie, directed by Le Thanh Son. I had no expectations and got surprised [...]
Kuro Obi (2007), Japan http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1084019 http://kuro-obi.cinemacafe.net/ (official site) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2uDBttbuGg (trailer) http://peevee.tv/v?1pil3 (making of) http://blog.livedoor.jp/kuro_obi (blog) The movie tagline: “Real Fight, Real Karate, Real Japan” just says it all. Nothing to add, so my review can only be a variation of the same statement. I waited much to see this. There is no English subtitled edition [...]
http://www.milarepafilm.com/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499238 Bhutanese movie from 2006 in Tibetan language. Premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival. Director: Neten Chokling Rinpoche. Lead actor: Gimyan Lodro. The Bhutanese film industry seems to bloom, I already need both of my hands to count the movies made in the Himalayan kingdom. :) I found this movie because of a false record at imdb, I [...]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475750/ Typhoon aka Taepung (2005) is a Korean action drama. Another big budget film from the end of last year, which is not as good as much it costed but still a decent movie. As many times before, it is about a North-Korean terrorist, who’s chased on sea and in many countries. The story seems to be simple [...]