Popular Japanese actress Yu Aoi has embodied the coming-of-age film for years. We look back at her best performances on screen and preview her new film....
Daigo Matsui directs Yu Aoi in Japanese Girls Never Die, the filmmaker's new and unapologetic assault on misogyny and the patriarchy in modern-day Japan....
Kim Ok-bin stars as a trained assassin turned undercover government operative in the extreme and outlandish South Korean action film, The Villainess....
Fresh from its 'out of competition' screening at Cannes, The Merciless is yet another South Korean crime film. Stars Sol Kyung-gu and ZE:A's Siwan. ...
The Filmed in Ether team reveals its best Asian films of 2016 and talk about their favourite new discoveries in Asian cinema both past and present. ...
Hieu Chau speaks with Indonesian writer-director Kamila Andini about Indonesian filmmaking, feminism and her outstanding short film, Following Diana....
Hong Sang-soo's Yourself and Yours continues the director's trademark look at relationships but forgoes some of the director's usual tricks to great effect....
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, Meld Magazine, The Australia Times and other publications.
