Takeshi Kitano, Sayoko Yamaguchi, Kansai Yamamoto and Nagisa Oshima at Japan Society for MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR. LAWRENCE, 1983. Kitano’s KUBI will have its NY premiere on 7/16 as part of #JAPANCUTS. Only a handful of tickets remain: japansoc.org/KUBI

Pet toy baseball ⚾️… I can throw even forkball with it, haha. By pure coincidence, when I’ve been obsessed w Korean baseball lately(childhood memories, missing my dad), I’ve been approached to write about sports & film: Ozu,Kurosawa..a few come to my mind!

We are hiring! Lecturer in Media and Culture at Liverpool. Areas of preference: Visual culture, cultural memory studies, materialist or anthropological approaches to media and culture, or media and cultural theory. Let us know if you have questions. shorturl.at/jp9WI

If you watched Edward Yang's Terrorizers and became curious, like me, about Wang An, the one-time actress who played the mixed-race hustler, a 2023 piece in TFAI's Film Appreciation Journal, "Searching for Wang An" by Chihyun Tseng, offers what little insight is available. 1/7

Finished reading it over Campari & soda; what more do you want for a hot summer day!?

Oh, a new Sylvia Chang was announced? Starring her and Carina Lam?? PRODUCED BY HOU HSIAO-HSIEN?!

Shall I order it? The source novel for the film, The Taste of Things.

Just finished reading; enjoyed more ‘historical’ chapters 🤨

Just arrived.

Chaos and Order: The Way of Johnnie To Sep 12-Oct 13 Over 20 films the versatile, genre hopping maestro of Hong Kong cinema! moma.org/calendar/film/…

happy 55th birthday to faye wong ♡

Choi, formerly a visiting professor at Yale, has a new book out soon titled ‘Forever Girls: Necro-Cinematics and South Korean Girlhood’ about body-switch films … Source: South China Morning Post search.app/mH6L6Rcq2ijjCo…

On my flight to Seoul I saw #Perfect_Days and #Evil_Does_Not_Exist; both deal with how the everyday is inevitably affected from outside, even though you try really hard to keep it as is…

kcl.ac.uk/events/convers… Conversation with Lee Kang-sheng this evening at 6:15pm Bush Auditorium! King's Film Studies in collaboration with The Garden Cinema

ukchinafilm.com/odyssey-2024-c… the 30th anniversary of Chungking Express release, which would be the opening film of Odyssey Film Festival, focusing on 'food and travel'!

Just found out that Edward Yang & Tsai Chin starred in a laundry detergent commercial together in 1989. They really looked like a loving couple here

An amazing visit from Johnnie To!✨ For those in New York, you can see a retrospective of the iconic Hong Kong auteur's work now playing at MoMA Film! mo.ma/4e3FGaZ

Sayonara Girls, thanks to Blake. High school tropes and cliches including lovely bike rides, are used in non-cliche ways. The literal translation of its title, which Korean release respects is: 'Girls Don't Graduate'. Ironic as it's about their graduation.

⌛️ 'Long takes enable us to experience moments in life that are not always translatable.' Actor and filmmaker Lee Kang-sheng spoke at King’s about his career, his working relationship with Tsai Ming-liang and his perception of time and care in cinema ⤵️ kcl.ac.uk/news/long-take…