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Having played TIFF and Fantastic Fest, Dead Talents Society is the latest from director John Hsu, and I’ve just seen his rad Taiwanese ghost horror comedy at Hawaii International Film Festival. Hsu’s last feature was the great 2019 period horror...

One of the more high profile among the many China-Korea collaborations being made these days, Bad Guys Always Die teams Taiwanese star Chen Bolin with top Korean actress Son Ye-jin in an action-comedy (leaning more towards the later) set on...

Tienan is Superhero Fly, a costumed hero much in the tradition of Japan's Tokusatsu shows like Ultraman and Kamen Rider. He has played this role for a number of years now. Alongside him is his best friend Monster, who gets...

What happens when a costumed universal space hero is put out to pasture? Or, rather, the actor portraying him is? That's the basic concept behind Jeff Chang's Taiwanese scifi action comedy Machi Action. A surprise hit in Taiwan - where...

[Once again, our thanks to Mark Popham for the following review.]Watching Old Fish for NYAFF, back in 2009, I was struck with how the film had basically the same plot as a standard Hollywood action movie- not a Bourne Identity,...

If you go into Li Yu's Buddha Mountain wanting more of the crude two fingers at mainland Chinese censors that was her earlier Lost In Beijing, you'll probably walk away disappointed. Buddha Mountain is still a raw, down and dirty...

You might think it doesn't seem to rate much interest - a youth-oriented romcom adapted from a popular internet novel, helmed by a director who hasn't done anything outside China's domestic market in years. Still, despite being fairly undemanding...

Jiang Xiao's Electric Shadows gathered her plenty of international attention. A sweet little film about two young kids growing up between movies. While very cute and endearing, it wasn't the most challenging of films. pk.com.cn, Xiao's second film, is a...