Serenity on the Silver Screen
The 2nd Asian Buddhist Film Festival will take place in Singapore from May 5-8, 2011 at Golden Village, Great World City....
Japan’s fantasy films act as a buffer against the reality of the natural world
In September 2008, Hayao Miyazaki, the author of Spirited Away, attended the Venice festival to present his most recent full-length film,...
Content can stop Indian film industry’s flops
The $2 billion Indian film industry is facing tough times with most movies falling flat at the box office. Experts say...
Why the Mosaic? – The Origins of Censorship in Japanese Pornography
It may surprise you to know that Japan, home to hentai, tentacle porn and bukakke, has had strict laws censoring its...
Chinese box office predicted to exceed North American within decade
At the opening day of the annual CinemaCon annual conference for theater owners in Las Vegas, Warner Bros. international executives noted...
Astro Shaw ups ante with production, pickups
Malaysian film and TV conglomerate Astro Shaw has picked up rights in several territories to upcoming action film Bunohan (formerly Bunga...
Japanese bestsellers to flood big screen
"Norwegian Wood," "Confessions," "Closed Note" and "Paradise Lost." These Japanese films, set to be released in Seoul next month, have one...
Vintage Bollywood studio faces uncertain future
Mehboob Khan has carried equipment at the Filmistan Studio for the last 40 years, rubbing shoulders with some of the greatest...
A Director Who Can Recall His Past Lives
In the 10 months since Apichatpong Weerasethakul's film "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" was awarded the Palme d'Or...
Porn Stars, Clad? They Seem to Appeal to Indonesian Filmgoers
It was a cloak-and-dagger moment in Indonesia's culture war between peddlers of titillation and Islamist conservatives. In a run-down maternity hospital...
Japan crisis evokes comparisons to its pop culture disaster narratives, historic events
Like Hollywood in the 1970s, with its queasy procession of upside-down ships, crippled airplanes and towering infernos, postwar Japanese popular culture...
Kim appointed chairman of KOFIC
Kim Eui-suk has been appointed as chairman of the Korean Film Council. The appointment was announced by the Ministry of Culture...