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Asako I & II

By Alex Saveliev | April 2019

Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now…

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Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and meets...

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Trevor Nunn’s Red Joan is a reflective romantic drama with an engaging espionage twist. In the 1930s, young Joan Stanley (Sophie Cookson) finds herself...

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Sometimes, we try so hard to escape our past that we end up right where we started. The scenery and the people may have changed, but the circumstances are...

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When a couple starts talking about disappointments they’ve faced over several decades of married life, you know you’re in for a long night. Compound...

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Eric Khoo’s Ramen Shop hits on the subjects of bigotry and on how food brings warring cultures together. As you may surmise, Ramen Shop opens on the...

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Ah, the sweet joys of a nicely constructed martial arts film, plus a known name added in for flavor. The film I speak of is Yuen Woo-ping’s Master Z: The...

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William (Will Brittain) is a neanderthal, cloned from the DNA of a prehistoric-era corpse discovered in a perfectly preserved state in a Pacific Northwest...

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At a time when racial tensions flared in NYC, a black musician bonded with a white musician over their love for music. Their names were Sterling Magee and...

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It’s hard to tell at the beginning of Rojo where it’s going, or even what kind of story it will be. We know it’s 1975 in a small town in Argentina,...

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The opening shot of Sheng Qiu’s feature-length directorial debut Suburban Birds subtly gives hints at the movie’s reality-bending ways. Structural...

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