Origins lost in Zou Jing’s softly powerful feature debut… A girl taken by her mother to live with another family in the city becomes the pretext for writer director Zou Jing’s softly powerful feature ...

Opening and closing films revealed for BFI Southbank part of programme… The London Korean Film Festival returns from 2 to 16 November for its 21st edition, and tickets for the programme at BFI Southba...

Revelry and renunciation of the samurai spirit swirl into a yin yang of intrigue in the latest hit jidaigeki epic... 16th of January 1810, Kobiki-chō district — modern-day Ginza — Edo. Fresh off of a ...

Nervous director and lead star offer a deep dive into the politics of representing female agency and fluidity... Abner Pastoll is a British-South African film director, screenwriter, and editor born i...

This year’s festival brings unforgettable classics and emerging talents to East London... This September, Fighting Spirit 2026 is bringing an absolutely stunning lineup to the Rio Cinema in East Londo...

In a suffocating tale of desire, obsession and repression, domestic life is turned in a psychological nightmare… Koreyoshi Kurahara can be remembered as a filmmaker who oscillated between mainstream a...

A pleasing entry of erotic cinema that proves, once more, that the genre is more than mere smut... “Father, I can smell your cologne.” While Nikkatsu’s turn to soft-erotic production (Roman Porno) cha...

Female awakening takes the shape of a werewolf... Eriko Katagiri arrives at the Fantasia International Film Festival 2026 with her debut feature, When You Open the Door, a strange and surreal account ...

Twenty-five years later, does Korea's sassiest rom-com still hold up?... In 2001, South Korea was still living with the aftermath of the IMF crisis, and it was precisely during those years that the so...