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When Tian makes a new film, I take notice. Without a doubt my favorite Chinese arthouse director, though his somewhat modest productivity makes it difficult to built a solid view of his style and strengths. The Warrior and The Wolf...

It's a struggle to summarise exactly what happens in the first half hour of Tian Zhuangzhuang's THE WARRIOR AND THE WOLF as it largely resembles a cobbled together mass of random sequences and unrelated footage from a frenzied shoot in...

What is the best antidote against creative stagnation? Delving into familiar territory from a completely different perspective, for instance. If you take into account the current oversaturation of Chinese historical epics, what really stands out is not so much the...

Epic?  Oh, yes.  The first trailer for Chinese / Japanese period epic The Warrior and the Wolf with Jo Odagiri and Maggie Q has just arrived online and it is absolutely gorgeous.  Yes, please.  The film is about to premiere...

As any regular rerader of this site will know, we are big fans of Japan's Joe Odagiri around these parts and loyal followers of his career. And Odagiri has been on a bit of a world wide tour of late,...

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