Vitaly Mansky's eye-opening documentary Under the Sun goes deep into the North Korean propaganda machine and asks: "Does the North Korean dream exist?"....
Who would've thought a Stephen Chow-directed comedy could be so environmentally conscientious?! Hieu and Hayley talk about the hilarious film, The Mermaid....
Mamoru Hosoda returns with his latest animated adventure, The Boy and the Beast, a film that's equal parts martial arts film, coming-of-age and fantasy....
From new films by Park Chan-wook to Johnnie To, we offer a short list of films you should keep an eye on that have a fair chance of screening in Australia....
It might not look like it but Sion Sono's Tag is a pro-feminist work and one of the most bleak and bizarre coming-of-age films to come along in some time....
Travel down the rabbit hole and find out who Kanako really is in Tetsuya Nakashima's problematic and deliriously crazed action-thriller The World of Kanako....
Joseon-era period drama The Throne is a tale of fathers, sons, responsibility and parenthood. It's also South Korea's official 2015 entry for the Oscars....
Hieu Chau is a writer and film programmer whose passion for film was firmly cemented after seeing South Korean revenge thriller Oldboy for the first time. His love of Asian cinema is rivaled by his love for Star Wars and pro-wrestling. His writing work has been featured in Kill Screen, Modern Korean Cinema and Meld Magazine. He has previously assisted the Melbourne International Film Festival as a Short Film Panelist and programmed for Environmental Film Festival Australia.
