Adapted from the series of horror novels by Lilian Lee, Tales from the Dark Part 1 is a horror anthology film, which tells three Hong Kong-set ghost stories. The connecting thread in each of these stories is that ghosts in the tales are seeking retribution for something that happened to them in life, or death. …
The centrepiece feature of this years Reel Asian Film Festival is the Hong Kong horror anthology film Tales from the Dark Part 1, which consists of three stories about ghosts seeking retribution. One of the three segments is entitled Stolen Goods and is the directorial debut for internationally acclaimed Hong Kong actor Simon Yam, who…
The Japanese teen comedy The Kirishima Thing follows a group of high school students over the course of a five day period, all of whom are affected by a student named Kirishima, who is nowhere to be found. Those affected by Kirishima’s disappearance include his girlfriend Risa (Mizuki Yamamoto), best friend Hiroki (Masahiro Higashide), as…
The 17th annual Reel Asian film festival kicked off with an opening gala film that heralded the addition of South Asian films to the festival’s line-up. Bombay Talkies is an anthology film, which celebrates 100 years of Indian cinema. Each of the four short films, directed by a different Bollywood director, makes reference to Indian…
An eccentric line-up was announced for the 2013 edition of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, which takes place from November 6-13 in Toronto and Richmond Hill. This will be the first year I plan on attending the festival, which is now in its 17th year. New this year, the festival is expanding to…
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