Naoko Yamada, director of the K-On! anime series, brings to life acclaimed manga, A Silent Voice, an important film about acceptance and forgiveness....
We look at how costume design can add more layers to a film's storytelling and look at the specific use of gloves in Park Chan-wook's The Handmaiden in this video essay....
Teenage girls in 1930s Japanese-colonised Korea begin to mysteriously disappear from their boarding school in South Korean Gothic horror, The Silenced....
The world of the teenage girl is entirely its own and Asia's appetite for complex films about teenage girlhood has given way to two great films this year. ...
First time filmmaker Wang Yichun turns in a deeply promising and focused debut with her coming-of-age teenage murder mystery What's in the Darkness....
Boo Junfeng's dark prison drama Apprentice is an impressive Singaporean feature that explores isolation and offers no easy answers to capital punishment....
South Korean coming-of-age comedy Twenty features Korean stars Kim Woo-bin, Kang Ha-neul and 2PM's Junho and tackles the growing pains of young adults....
Originally from Singapore, Natalie is a Communication Design graduate from Monash University. The movie that changed the way she looked at films was Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! when she was 10 years old. She enjoys postmodern art, British television shows, nail polish, horror movies and Wong Kar-wai a lot. She has no filter and can be found rambling on Twitter most of the time.
