Natalie
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Words and interviews on Asian Cinema: @filmedinether Letterboxd: https://t.co/IZEm6EgxGZ (中/ENG)
Joined March 2009
Wong Kar Wai on Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu Wai. And on his actors: "You know, I don't shoot them that way because I like beauty. I do it because I love them."
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The problem with Spielberg's WEST SIDE STORY is that beautiful direction and technical mastery will never be enough if your two leads cannot sell your story and have no chemistry. Elgort was woefully miscast and he had the charm of a wooden stump.
a lot of us have been revisiting Spielberg's WEST SIDE STORY, and I've still never seen a movie strike a better balance between dreamy old-hollywood visuals and a more contemporary kind of heightened realism, often within a single shot. it's the platonic ideal of a modern musical
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CONCLAVE being the actual best film in the awards race, one that we needed (not one that we deserved). That despite its viral brat edits and rupaul's drag race memes, is a thoughtful, earnest and sincere film about spirituality and faith, but you people aren't ready to hear it.
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Wim Wenders being disgusted by people throwing rubbish on the streets in Europe and then invited by the son of Uniqlo's CEO to view his project where architects designed sustainable, beautiful public toilets in Tokyo and this turning into PERFECT DAYS (2023) is an amazing story.
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Dev Patel politely asking ppl to watch more Asian cinema and pointing out that John Wick takes from Asian cinema and ESPECIALLY Korean action cinema (THE MAN FROM NOWHERE, THE VILLAINESS) and those are his real influences (I'm sure THE RAID films too)
Dev Patel on 'Monkey Man' being called the South-Asian 'John Wick':. "I'm a huge fan of the franchise but this film is born from my love of so much action cinema expanding from Bruce Lee to Sammo Hung to Jet Lee to Jackie Chan to the Korean cinema and also Bollywood [. ]".
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I WISH 奇跡 (2011, Hirokazu Koreeda).THE FLORIDA PROJECT (2017, Sean Baker).CLOSE (2022, Lukas Dhont).MONSTER 怪物 (2023, Hirokazu Koreeda)
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Nicholas Hoult being typecast as a twitchy awkward dude in films has never sat well with me after being psychologically and emotionally terrorised by him as the bisexual sociopath Tony Stonem in Skins. An amazing character. Real ones know. Hope he gets to play more freaks!.
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If you want examples of filmmakers who have been influenced by Edward Yang and the Taiwanese New Wave but have their own voice and style, you just neet to look at Hirokazu Koreeda, and the wave of South Korean indie women filmmakers such as Kim Bora, Yoon Danbi, Yoon Gaeun
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Actress Lee Joo-Young (Broker) in an incredible DECISION TO LEAVE hoodie that I need now
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I heard Ryusuke Hamaguchi's films being described as "Uniqlocore" during a discussion of EVIL DOES NOT EXIST which is really funny because you know which 2023 Japanese film is actually entirely dressed by Uniqlo? PERFECT DAYS.
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The incredible secondhand music shop in Shimokitazawa that features in PERFECT DAYS (2023) is real and I've dropped by it during my trips to Tokyo (Shimokita is a fantastic area). Very easy to spot due to the distinct entrance.
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@finapplee @columbvs You are right because 90% of the posters here are done by one company, called Propaganda Alternative Graphics. They handle the artwork for majority of the foreign language and arthouse releases in their country. Look them up.
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Vincent Cassel, Director Tran Anh Hung & Tony Leung Chiu-Wai in Paris. From Carina Lau's instagram with the caption "3個大男孩 (tl: 3 big boys)
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Men in America really hate women don't they? You really can't stand it when a woman says something true just because you consider Scorsese untouchable. Grow up.
Kidman saying Scorsese doesn’t make films with women is just her coping with the fact that he’s never offered her a part.
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"Dinner is a very intimate thing. anyone can go for coffee or a drink, but you agree to have dinner with someone, that's different. It has a meaning. You really see people when you watch them eat." - Wong Kar Wai. Food in IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE: Black sesame soup & glutinous rice
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The incredible, transcendent Kôji Yakusho in PERFECT DAYS (2023, Wim Wenders)
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Hirokazu Koreeda is now in Seoul! BROKER is really happening with DOP Hong Kyung-Pyo (PARASITE, BURNING) and cast Song Kang Ho, Bae Doona, Kang Dong Won and Lee Ji Eun. He just dropped this video message for the currently ongoing Hong Kong International Film Fest. So exciting!
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@_RyanLevitt_ also Mike Faist was criminally good as Riff and made Elgort look much worse in comparison.
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Michelle Yeoh on the cover of Harper's Bazaar China, photographed by the always incredible Chen Man
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I was very impressed by the cinematography and art direction but where it really matters, which is to be a film that makes me care about its characters and its central love story, it failed from the start with Elgort's casting. Zegler did her best but she can only do so much.
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The lady at the end is Jeong Seo-kyeong, Park Chan-Wook's co-screenwriter since LADY VENGEANCE. She is the brains behind casting Tang Wei in DECISION TO LEAVE, and I would credit her to the marked evolution of his depiction of women on screen since.
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KIM GO EUN IS TRULY THE KOREAN SAOIRSE RONAN BEST ACTRESS OF HER GENERATION, LOVE IN THE BIG CITY WAS AMAZING, HER AND NOH SANG-HYUN DELIVERED KNOCKOUT PERFORMANCES.
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Make Movies Sexy Again. VIVA EROTICA 色情男女 (1996, Derek Yee, Lo Chi-Leung)
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Hello, this is a piece that is very dear to my heart. Anyone who knows me well knows how much IU means to me. I don't know if I could ever do justice to Lee Ji-Eun's career, but I have tried with as much love and sincerity here.
The trajectory of Lee Ji-Eun's acting career tells a larger story about the woman behind #IU and her ability to negotiate her celebrity. In partnership with @KOFFIAFilmFest, we chart her journey from DREAM HIGH to her acclaimed performance in BROKER.
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My interest in seeing A COMPLETE UNKNOWN has completely gone out of the window after watching BETTER MAN (ironically they showed the ACU trailer before) in cinemas. Like I simply don't know what musical-biopic could ever top what BETTER MAN pulled off. Thank you Robbie Williams.
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"The immense sea and the sky above, our uniforms, our clumsy adolescent enthusiasm. If I had to choose a colour for all of these past things, I'd choose a deep blue.". BLUE (2002, Japan) .BE WITH YOU (2005, Singapore).MIAO MIAO (2008, Taiwan).HOUSE OF HUMMINGBIRD (2019, SKorea)
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@lingerie_addict @ModernGurlzz makes me think about how everyone kicked up such a big fuss over Greta Gerwig in that blue and white Margiela dress, making it out like she had to style it the way Galliano presented it with the makeup and theatrics.
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Reading the full synopsis for Park Chan-Wook's DECISION TO LEAVE and the premise is very similar to Yasuzo Masumura's neo-noir/courtroom drama tour de force A WIFE CONFESSES (1961).
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18 minutes into this film, I knew I was obsessed already. THE CHERRY ORCHARD 櫻の園 (1990, Shun Nakahara)
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the way Miyazaki's reaction to getting an honorary Palme D'Or has exceeded any expectation of what I imagined it to be. (I thought he would be nonchalant, but he has complete indifference/lack of understanding as to the weight of the award, which is hilarious).
Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki sent a video message in their absence and sympathies to Goro for having to represent them at Cannes: “I feel sorry for him, good luck.”
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Sōya Kurokawa and Hinata Hiiragi in MONSTER 怪物 (2023, Hirokazu Kore-eda)
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Two queer Chinese language short films by women directors you can currently watch online for free:. SHIMMER SUMMER (2021, dir. Tong Mao).AND WE COLLIDE (2021, dir. Li Lanca) . Part of CathayPlay's celebration of the Beijing Queer Film Festival:.
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Japanese television, anime and cinema actually has had the most diverse and thoughtful representation of sexuality including asexuality as far as I'm concerned. #TsukuTabe
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I really dislike this take that fans don't like how this character because he isn't "traditionally masculine" (i.e only like that form of masculinity). We don't like him because the acting is so lacking that it cannot make us handwave the weaknesses in the character's writing.
I keep saying this but the fact that Colin isn’t more overtly rugged and take charge, that he’s softer and kinder and essentially has the same friends to desperately wanting more journey that Pen has, is the actual reason he gives people the “ick”.
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The magnificent THE HANDMAIDEN: Korean, Japanese and Jacobean era architecture all in one. And such houses do exist! The Meiji era architect Josiah Conder was responsible for Rokkaen, the mansion in The Handmaiden located in Kuwana, Mie and the Iwasaki Mansion I visited in Tokyo.
What is the best movie you've ever seen that uses architecture brilliantly?
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Newfound/renewed appreciation for Ralph Fiennes and Isabella Rossellini has also been great. I also appreciate all the fanart, Sanrio pairings, memes, edits and more. Senior citizens and chronically online LGBTQ people coming out to support CONCLAVE are my people.
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Without a doubt, the best film I've seen dealing with divorce is Shinji Somai's transcendent MOVING (1993).
Can you think of a good film that deals with the issue of divorce? . I like A Separation.
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Wong Kar Wai on Leslie Cheung and filming the opening love scene of HAPPY TOGETHER with Tony and Leslie.
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Looking at acclaimed stuff like TRIANGLE OF SADNESS, THE WHITE LOTUS, THE MENU which all only offer really shallow class commentary, i think #BEEFNetflix is finally the one "eat the rich narrative" that actually offers something different, deeper, funnier and more caustic.
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Now that the opening weekend has wrapped and I can take a moment to breathe, I am pleased to share that over the past year I was involved in curating and adapting the Taiwan Film & Audiovisual Institute's retrospective and exhibition of Edward Yang and bringing it to Singapore.
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On casting Takeshi Kaneshiro for Chungking Express: "he'd just been in a film with Maggie and Michelle Yeoh. They call him 'The Wooden Man'. Why? Because he was stiff--he couldn't act. But he had the look that I was looking for. So I said "Let me try."
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Asian Noirs for #Noirvember, a thread:. My favourites-.1. A WIFE CONFESSES (1961, Yasuzo Masumura).2. PALE FLOWER (1964, Masahiro Shinoda) .3. INFERNAL AFFAIRS (2002, Andrew Lau & Alan Mak).4. MEMORIES OF MURDER (2003, Bong Joon Ho)
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On metatextual love poems to both Chinese and Japanese cinema through the life of an actress .CENTER STAGE (1991, Stanley Kwan).MILLENNIUM ACTRESS (2001, Satoshi Kon)
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24 year old Tony Leung Chiu-Wai in LOVE UNTO WASTE 地下情 (1986, Stanley Kwan)
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you can learn more about the 17 public toilets part of The Tokyo Toilet project here:
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Closed 2022 with an absolute banger of a film. - GRASS (2018, dir. Hong Sang-Soo)
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🏳️🌈 Happy Pride Month! For the rest of the month I'm hoping to watch and discover new-to-me queer Asian cinema but for now these are some of my all-time favourites.
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TIME TO HUNT is out on Netflix now! Starring: Choi Woo Shik, Lee Je Hoon, Ahn Jae Hong, Park Jung Min and Park Hae Soo. Directed by Yoon Sung Hyun who did 2011's BLEAK NIGHT. It's a really tense thriller that would have made for a great cinema experience.
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4 stages in the career of Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, The Man Who Can Speak With His Eyes:.- A CITY OF SADNESS 悲情城市 (1989, Hou Hsiao-Hsien).- HAPPY TOGETHER 春光乍洩 (1997, Wong Kar-Wai) .- INFERNAL AFFAIRS 無間道 (2002, Andrew Lau & Alan Mak).- LUST, CAUTION 色，戒 (2007, Ang Lee)
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Maggie Cheung in LAST ROMANCE 流金歲月 (1988), directed by Yonfan
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Happy 520!!! 520 is Chinese internet slang for "我爱你“ (I Love You) so it is celebrated as a day of love confessions. Here are 4 of my favourite 告白 (love confession) scenes in Chinese language cinema and they're all sad and tragic and 3 out of 4 involve Tony Leung!
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If you need to watch something on @netflix about 2 attractive people who enter a marriage without knowing anything each other, don't watch #Rebecca, watch #PrivateLives instead where one is a grifter and one is a corporate spy and they don't know this about each other!
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A TIME TO LIVE, A TIME TO DIE 童年往事 (1985, dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Taiwan)
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Remembering Leslie Cheung today (12 September 1956 - 1 April 2003). I thought I would feature his lesser-known roles in:.NOMAD 烈火青春 (1982).THE BRIDE WITH WHITE HAIR 白发魔女传 (1993).HE'S A WOMAN, SHE'S A MAN 金枝玉葉 (1994).VIVA EROTICA 色情男女 (1996)
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It's because many of the posters in this thread are done by @propaganda01 , just saying. 💕.
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Once people stop looking to Hollywood and the West for representation in any aspect, and look at the world instead, they will be much more happier, feel much more represented and much more hopeful about the media landscape.
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these pictures by wing shya of shu qi with daniel wu live rent-free in my head and also their lifelong friendship
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@trishhmakes @finapplee @columbvs The other studio that does many of the independent Korean films and arthouse world cinema is Bitnaeun, they did The Florida Project posters in this thread, and there's another one that's even nicer than the 2 posted here
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Hirokazu Koreeda, Hou Hsiao Hsien, DOP Mark Lee Ping Bing and DOP Yao Hong-yi in Jiufen, Taiwan, visiting the locations where director Hou shot DUST IN THE WIND (1986) and CITY OF SADNESS (1989). Koreeda is a guest of the Golden Horse Film Festival/Awards that just concluded.
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so excited to see Kiko Mizuhara in the Chinese language, Malaysian-Japanese film MALU/无马之日 (2021) directed by Edmund Yeo! She's playing a supporting role
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Maybe for audiences in the West but I've added this to my Netflix watchlist since it was announced, read the entire Netflix press release on their website and had the release date pencilled into my journal. Sorry to be controversial but this really isn't entirely on them.
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s new TV series ‘ASURA’ has randomly been released on Netflix without any promotion. The series follows 4 sisters who ar shocked to discover their elderly father's affair. See which other TV show just got added to Netflix:
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春 · 夏 · 秋 · 冬. 四季 Four Seasons posters from the LITTLE FOREST (2018, Yim Soon Rye)
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Joshua & Mingyu from #SEVENTEEN 's latest photoshoot from @SPUR_magazine was inspired by IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE. They released a mini film that was so arresting, so naturally, I had to do comparison shots.
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Maggie Cheung was like, beyond beautiful and unbelievably gay in LAST ROMANCE (1988)
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THE BREAKING ICE 燃冬 (2023, Anthony Chen). The ambient score by 28 year old Singaporean musician Kin Leonn is a real standout.
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one upped by Park Chan-Wook himself with the teal dress in DECISION TO LEAVE. Is it blue? is it green?
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Just non-stop sobbing through HAYAO MIYAZAKI & THE HERON (2024) the extraordinary documentary on the making of the film, but really a reflection of Miyazaki's life and how the film is him processing the deaths of all his friends (esp Isao Takahata) and his legacy.
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Love these behind the scenes photos of Johnny Flynn, Anya Taylor-Joy, Callum Turner, Mia Goth and Josh O'Connor for Emma. (2020) photographed by Autumn De Wilde!
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People hating on OP maybe should watch more East Asian diaspora movies and Taiwanese New Waves cinema and realise how PAST LIVES and so much diaspora cinema cops shallowly from Edward Yang and Hou Hsiao Hsien.
Rewatching Yi Yi yesterday really drove home just how mediocre Past Lives is lol.
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"When I look at a film, I can easily tell whether the director likes the actor or not. It's not that they have double chins or bad lighting. It's something larger than that. The tenderness isn't there. I like to be 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 the characters, not superior to them." - Wong Kar Wai
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🚗 Crying in a red car somewhere, limited edition cassette tapes of the DRIVE MY CAR soundtrack composed by Eiko Ishibashi being sold in an equally limited number of stores (3), only in Japan
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Anita Mui's fits in this are incredible. we used to live in a society where Anita Mui swanned around in a red boudoir, crying, heartbroken in a voluminous jade green robe and matching slippers
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Proud of her repping a South Korean designer. Lee Ji Eun is the face of Gucci in South Korea and I'm sure they were ready to dress her for the red carpet. Her partnership with her stylist (who's worked with her for more than a decade) is always purposeful.
#아이유 220526 IU #LeeJiEun at the Cannes Film Festival Premiere of Hirokazu Koreeda's <Broker> . 👗: CHOI JAE HOON 'Provocation of New Colors' Collection Gown in grey green (the dress is available by in-store appointment). #BrokerInCannes #NotreEtoileLeeJiEun #IUxCannes #이지은
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Tilda Swinton's debut film appearance in CARAVAGGIO (1986, Derek Jarman)
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@lunardeiity Wong Kar-Wai directed this shoot he didn't photograph it. Anyone who knows Wong Kar-Wai's work knows that his stills and this type of photography he has is done by Wing Shya. You can find some of the original images here in this interview with Wing Shya:
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I think along with the 2023 film I AM WHAT I AM (2022) starring Toko Miura this is like one of the only proper depictions of asexuality and also how you can be both asexual and identify as a lesbian. #TsukuTabe
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This shot of Hideko Takamine in FLOATING CLOUDS (1955, Naruse)
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To put into perspective: this is an ALL-TIME record, not just for animated films. Some cinemas have screenings from 7am, showing it at least 40 times a day. Last year's Weathering With You and Frozen 2 did 15.2 mill and 18.2 mill which were both records.
NEWS: Demon Slayer Movie Breaks Box Office Records in Japan with ~$44 Million Weekend 😱. Read on:
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On the other side of the picture with Cherie Chung and Maggie Cheung. Brigitte Lin
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Bae Doona updated her Instagram: filming has wrapped for BROKER! Pictured here with Director Hirokazu Koreeda and Lee Joo Young. Next year's Cannes fingers crossed!
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"The reason you haven't seen yourself in the people in tv or in these movies is because there aren't enough of those characters like you at all." #TsukuTabe
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Happy 5th Anniversary to THE HANDMAIDEN, a film that will go down as a classic. I wrote about the significance of gloves previously in the film so here are my favourite glove related shots
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Holy Shit. One of my all-time favourite coming-of-age films ETERNAL SUMMER 《盛夏光年》 (2006, dir. Leste Chen, Taiwan) is getting a 15th Anniversary 4K restoration and re-release 27 August. New posters!
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Imagine casting the biggest rockstars of their respective countries (Japan and the UK) in a war film about their queer desire for one another, and also a comedian who would go on to make his own deconstructions of masculinity in the yakuza and samurai genres.
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