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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 6h
An absolute pleasure chatting to HIROKAZU KOREEDA again for his latest film, Look Back, at the #BFI London Film Festival. I think the first time I interviewed him in person (and possibly the last) was at the LFF 13 years ago for Like Father, Like Son! 🫢
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
A love-obsessed ghost causes mayhem in this spin on the usual J-horror formula: MAG MAG | Coming to digital platforms from 19 October from #BlueFinchFilms www.easternkicks.com/reviews/mag-...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Don't cha wish your grandma was hot like mine: Davika Hoorne excels as an octogenarian in INHERIT | Screened as part of #BFI London Film Festival 2026 #LFF www.easternkicks.com/reviews/inhe...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Just back from a lovely chat with the cast of POSSIBLE LOVE, in cinemas next week and coming to @netflix.com worldwide on 6 November. Interviews coming next week! 👍
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Remembering Tony Rayns... A star-studded line-up of speakers paying tribute to a film critic who helped bring Asian cinema into all our lives.
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The second film in Kuei Chih-Hung’s Hex trilogy takes a comic and rather seedy turn: HEX VS WITCHCRAFT | Available on Blu-ray from @imprintfilms.bsky.social as part of Shaw-Shock Volume Three www.easternkicks.com/reviews/hex-...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A scorching hot social commentary on class hierarchy in the Philippines: FILIPIÑANA ★★★★ | Screening at #BFI London Film Festival 2026 #LFF www.easternkicks.com/reviews/fili...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
MY NAME AIN’T SUZIE explores the reality of female prostitution in 1950s Hong Kong from a female perspective. Rediscover in this restored version, screened at the 4th Hong Kong Film Festival UK, which continues to 4th October #HKFF_UK #HKFFUK2026 www.easternkicks.com/reviews/my-n...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Another entry in the Hideshi Hino's Theater of Horror series and a Japanese take on Carnival of Souls: DEATH TRAIN | This week's #cineXtremes entry! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/deat...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Cinema is a great medium for ghosts and dreams and myths.” We talk to director Amie Song #amiesong about her debut feature Gu Shi, produced through Biennale College Cinema #labiennale www.easternkicks.com/features/ami...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Little is left to the imagination in inventive sex comedy starring SHU QI and LOLETTA LEE: SEX AND ZEN II | Available on Blu-ray now from @88films.bsky.social www.easternkicks.com/reviews/sex-...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lund Fantastic Film Festival presents a Japanese genre retrospective in collaboration with TOEI and announces Thai action epic 4 Tigers and Japanese crowd-pleaser Break Free as opening and closing films respectively #lundfantastic www.easternkicks.com/news/first-a...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Na Hong-jin’s latest is a high-octane sci-fi actioner that thrills and baffles in equal measures: HOPE | In UK cinemas now released by @neon-rated.bsky.social! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/hope/
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A grotesque monster haunts a Tokyo Airbnb in this practical effects-driven creature feature: BAKEMONO ★★★★ | Available on Blu-ray now from #Unearthedfilms www.easternkicks.com/reviews/bake...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ANGELA MAO must enter the Thai Boxing ring to restore her father’s reputation in THE TOURNAMENT ★★★★ | Available as part of REAP THE WHIRLWIND #Eurekavideo (UK) and on solo BR #88_Films (US) www.easternkicks.com/reviews/the-...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ETHAN JUAN is a detective battling amnesia, cops, and criminals in SABU’s crime comedy ARRESTED MEMORY | Premiered at #labiennale and screening at @tiffnet.bsky.social www.easternkicks.com/reviews/arre...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Singapore's first wuxia, THE HOUSE ON THE MOON, is a stunning but narratively fractured reimagining of Chang Er's myth | presented at the 79th Locarno Film Festival #filmfestlocarno www.easternkicks.com/reviews/the-...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fourth Hong Kong Film Festival UK returns from 25 September to 4 October 2026 across London venues #HKFF_UK #HKFFUK2026 www.easternkicks.com/news/fourth-...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“This film is a kind of mediation, on finding solidarity, on how we deal with the uneasiness.” ADVIK BENI talks about debut feature mother, you have not died yet. but you will. and when you do, you will finally be alive again. Screening at @camdeniff.bsky.social www.easternkicks.com/features/adv...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The third film in Kuei Chih-Hung’s black magic trilogy is a truly bizarre and scattershot horror comedy: HEX AFTER HEX ★★★★ | Available on Blu-ray from @imprintfilms.bsky.social as part of Shaw-Shock Volume Three www.easternkicks.com/reviews/hex-...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Near the Exit: Kawashima Yuzo’s Porous Worlds - A look at SPOT Taipei and SPOT-Huashan's recent retrospective www.easternkicks.com/features/nea...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
As shocking as it is impressive, do not miss this newly restored Tsui Hark rarity: DON’T PLAY WITH FIRE, aka DANGEROUS ENCOUNTERS OF THE FIRST KIND ★★★★ | Screening as part of @metrographnyc.bsky.social's retrospective! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/dang...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
East Asian films at the 70th BFI London Film Festival - A roundup of East and South East Asian films from the 2026 programme, running from 7 to 18 October #BFI #LFF www.easternkicks.com/news/east-as...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Lau Kar-Leung's unlikely crack at a Hollywood genre amps it up even further into action-comedy overdrive: TIGER ON THE BEAT | Available on Blu-ray from @imprintfilms.bsky.social and screening at @thegardencinema.bsky.social as part of @focushkfilm.bsky.social www.easternkicks.com/reviews/tige...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
DON’T PLAY WITH FIRE: THE FILMS OF TSUI HARK - Metrograph celebrates with a US-premiere 2K restoration and a comprehensive retrospective of the legend’s work #Metrograph www.easternkicks.com/news/dont-pl...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The sixth entry in the long-running Tomie series is a direct prequel to the first film, exploring the origins of the seductive goblin: TOMIE: BEGINNING | This week's #cineXtremes entry! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/tomi...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Advi Beni’s documentary is an unmissable mixed media exploration of grief and identity: mother, you have not died yet. but you will. and when you do, you will finally be alive again ★★★★ @camdeniff.bsky.social www.easternkicks.com/reviews/moth...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
CHOR YUEN redefines wuxia with his classic GU LONG outing KILLER CLANS ★★★★★ | Available as part of @shoutstudios.bsky.social Shaw Brothers Classics Vol. 3! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/kill...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A classic 80s cut and paste job from Joseph Lai and Godfrey Ho which splices ninja footage into another entirely unrelated film: NINJA STRIKE FORCE ★★★★ | This week's #cineXtremes entry! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/ninj...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A likable if underbaked assassin film: ROAD TO VENDETTA | Screened as part of #FEFF28 #Udinefareastfilm www.easternkicks.com/reviews/road...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The wife of a genre scriptwriter gives birth to a lizard in Hideshi Hino's Theater of Horror entry: LIZARD BABY | This week's #cineXtremes entry! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/liza...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
From Tropical Fish to A Foggy Tale: Ming-Yeh Rawnsley on the making of CHEN YU-HSUN as Taiwan’s humanist fabulist www.easternkicks.com/features/fro...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
LO WEI assembles a solid ensemble cast in one of GOLDEN HARVEST’S first releases THE INVINCIBLE EIGHT ★★★★ | Available on Blu-ray now from #Eurekavideo (UK) and @88films.bsky.social (USA) www.easternkicks.com/reviews/the-...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The ghost of a girl cut in half by a train haunts an overpass in 2009 Kōji Shiraishi J-horror TEKETEKE | This week's #cineXtremes entry! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/teke...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
An irresistible mess of island cults, black magic glow ups, and nonsensical plot points: MALA | Available to stream now on #Tubi and other digital platforms www.easternkicks.com/reviews/mala/
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
#ThrowbackThursday With the new release of @imprintfilms.bsky.social The Cinema of King Hu: Volume One (1965-1973), what better time to revisit our podcast on King HU. Just don't ask what happened to the podcast. (If everyone's doing it, is it trendy anymore?) www.easternkicks.com/podcast/the-...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Cute. Just cute. Even with many genre giants under a legendary director that’s all this really is — or needs! LADY IS THE BOSS | Available on Blu-ray from @88films.bsky.social www.easternkicks.com/reviews/lady...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Stephen Fung stars in this oddball 2002 Hong Kong Japan co-production based on an Edogawa Ranpo novel: FACE TO FACE | This week's #cineXtremes entry is available now on Blu-ray from @imprintfilms.bsky.social www.easternkicks.com/reviews/face...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We're saddened to hear that the great actress and singer Grace Chang died on 3 August aged 93. The very model of what a Hong Kong icon could be. The Wild, Wild Rose is essential viewing for anyone interested in Hong Kong cinema. www.easternkicks.com/reviews/the-...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
UNIDENTIFIED MURDER is a wonderfully absurd indie delight that is sure to surprise you with its ingenuity ★★★★ | Screened as part of @fantasiafestival.com / #edkofilmsltd www.easternkicks.com/reviews/unid...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The first volume of @imprintfilms.bsky.social celebration of King Hu is out now, uniting his early Shaw Brothers work with Taiwanese productions. Here's our guide to the films included... www.easternkicks.com/tag/the-cine...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Legendary yakuza stars face the music about their last dance, last chance for killing in a rather… unusual genre hybrid: THE SPECIALS | Screening as part of @fantasiafestival.com www.easternkicks.com/reviews/the-...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Anthony Wong gets more than he bargained for when a black magic sorcerer gives him sexy dreams in 1999 Category III classic EROTIC NIGHTMARE | This week's #cineXtremes entry! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/erot...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"I don't like yakuza, but I like yakuza movies!" EIJI UCHIDA talks about the special ways and the special casting with which The Specials was conceived | Screened at #asianpopupcinema and coming to @fantasiafestival.com! www.easternkicks.com/features/eij...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Myanmar’s first found footage horror has its world premiere at Fantasia International Film Festival: THE LAST FOOTAGE | @fantasiafestival.com www.easternkicks.com/reviews/the-...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The latest entry to the COLD WAR franchise sees titans and underdogs fighting for power and survival in pre-handover Hong Kong. COLD WAR 1994 screened as part of #NYAFF2026. @nyaff.bsky.social #edkofilmsltd www.easternkicks.com/reviews/cold...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Creepy, slow burning terror from the horror master Takashi Shimizu: THE MOUTHS | Screened as part of @fantasiafestival.com www.easternkicks.com/reviews/the-...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"You could remove the nostalgic iconography of Chinatown and still capture something truthful" Connor Sen Warnick peaks on his feature debut CHARACTER DISAPPEARING. Screening at #roxycinemanyc with director’s Q&A! www.easternkicks.com/features/con...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A 2014 take on the Sukima-onna urban legend in which a ghost lurking in small gaps pulls her victims to their doom: SPIRIT BEHIND THE DOOR | This week's #cineXtremes entry! www.easternkicks.com/reviews/spir...
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easternKicks @easternkicks.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The power of belief, brotherhood and bullets thunders onto the 4K UHD release of John Woo’s #BulletintheHead from @imprintfilms.bsky.social ★★★★★ www.easternkicks.com/reviews/bull...
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