Category archives for: Asian Cinema

Sound On Sight Radio #220: The Very Best Of Asian Cinema

Sound On Sight Radio #220: The Very Best Of Asian Cinema

Three of the most interesting films of the last 12 months are probably not coming to a theater near you. They’re highlights from the last two Fantasia Film Festivals’ Asian programs, and you might need to do a bit of hunting to track them down. Two are Japanese – the rock n’ rooll tall tale [...]

Sound On Sight Radio #215: Fantasia 2010: Martial Arts Cinema

Sound On Sight Radio #215: Fantasia 2010: Martial Arts Cinema

It seems like just yesterday that Fantasia ended with a glorious advance screening of Inglourious Basterds, and yet the fest has come back to haunt our dreams and wreck our social calendar. In this hour, we’ll be taking a look at the fest’s prestigious gathering of martial arts flicks – the blockbuster sequel Ip Man [...]

Sound On Sight Radio #201 – Basquiat / My Dear Enemy

Sound On Sight Radio #201 – Basquiat / My Dear Enemy

Our latest spotlight tackles art and artists on celluloid. First up: Julian Schnabel’s 1996 debut feature Basquiat, a typically colorful portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat, widely considered to be the first artist of African descent to find international art stardom. We’ll also be taking a look at the South Korean export My Dear Enemy, which might [...]

Sound On Sight Radio # #139 – Fantasia 2009 – Best of Korean Cinema

Sound On Sight Radio # #139 – Fantasia 2009 – Best of Korean Cinema

As part of Sound on Sight’s ongoing coverage of the Fantasia Film Festival, North America’s premier genre film blowout, Al and Simon take a quick look at four of the South Korean films they’ve spied over the last week, including director Kim Ki-duk’s trippy Dream, the tense and sadistic crime thriller The Chaser, Woody Allen-inflected [...]

Sound On Sight Radio # 137 – Fantasia 2009 – Asian Cinema: Thirst & Love Exposure

Sound On Sight Radio # 137 – Fantasia 2009 – Asian Cinema: Thirst & Love Exposure

Fantasia, Montreal’s international genre film festival, has expanded its mandate over the years to include a wide variety of films from around the world, with the sole proviso seemingly being that they’re not based on an SNL skit or a Dane Cook routine. There has, however, always been a focus on Asian films, particularly the [...]

Naked Lunch Radio #47 – Tokyo Shock, Japanese Rock part 2

Naked Lunch Radio #47 – Tokyo Shock, Japanese Rock part 2

Download it now! Download show When it comes to madness and mayhem, nobody can deliver it quite like the Japanese, and we’ve recently been exposed to a series of hyperactive Japanese flicks so action-packed (though not, of course, always actually good) that we’ve put together a follow-up to our previous Japanese spotlight. This time, we’re [...]

Naked Lunch Radio #3 – Tokyo Shock & Japanese Rock

Naked Lunch Radio #3 – Tokyo Shock & Japanese Rock

Get ready for some Japanese rock, movie talk and Tokyo shock. Episode 3 is now ready to download. Reviews on Cyber-Punk JApanese films and the music artist of the week is a man who has left his prints everywhere in rock and punk music. Of course I am talking about Captain Beefheart. Listen now Download [...]

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