Since the early days of cinema, film has often been used as an effective political weapon, either as propaganda or simply to campaign and agitate. Some of the most renowned political films from the silent […]
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Ever since George Melies brought us on A Trip to the Moon 116 years ago, sci-fi has remained a staple genre in the history of filmmaking, and Asian cinema has been no exception. Japan in particular led […]
Watch Asian Films on FilmDoo Admit it, we all love a good serial killer flick, and while Hollywood has a storied history in the genre, from Psycho to Silence of the Lambs, their Asian counterparts aren’t […]
Watch Sanguivorous on FilmDoo With the near-wordless Sanguivorous, Japanese filmmaker Naoki Yoshimoto offers an avant-garde take on vampire mythology that puts atmosphere ahead of plot to oneiric and ominous effect. Across a runtime just shy of an hour, a […]
“Whatever the director asks me to do, I will do and make him happy. I’m a fool.” That self-deprecating addendum aside, the legendary Brigitte Lin has a career’s worth of examples from across Hong Kong […]
“My motivation for going into the film industry was that I needed a job; I wanted to make some money.” This might not be a statement you’d expect to hear from arguably the finest genre […]
