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Folks, it’s almost that time of the year where the BEST film festival in NYC is about to blast off from July 1st-July 14th! Check out the programming below courtesy of the wonderful organizers of this event, SUBWAY CINEMA<\/a>! Looks like this martian might go broke! From the retro films of Tsui Hark like ‘the Blade’ & Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain to Ching Siu Tung’s ‘Duel to the Death’ to Dragon Inn, Reign of Assassins, Detective Dee, the filipino exploit films, Bangkok Knockout, & midnight movie madness with my cult fave ‘Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky’ are must sees for me! I didn’t even get to the Japanese & Korean films yet! Oy Vey! My freakin’ wallet!<\/p>\n

Via Subway Cinema<\/a><\/p>\n

NEW YORK ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL
\nJuly 1 – 14 at Lincoln Center (July 1 – 14)
\nJapan Society (July 7 – 10)<\/p>\n

The New York Asian Film Festival is ten years old! And we have presents for you! A Takashi Miike World Premiere! The long-awaited animated epic based on Osamu Tezuka\u2019s life of Buddha! The International Premiere of the new movie from Johnnie To! Rare Filipino exploitation! An avalanche of retro screenings to celebrate our tenth birthday! And special guests Tsui Hark, Ryoo Seung-Wan, Su Chao-pin, Takayuki Yamada, Tak Sakaguchi and many more!<\/p>\n

The New York Asian Film Festival is presented in association with the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Japan Society’s Japan Cuts: Festival of New Japanese Film.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re deeply grateful for the support of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office New York, the Korean Cultural Service New York and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York.<\/p>\n

The Line-Up!!!!
\nOfficial Opening Night Film
\nMILOCRORZE: A LOVE STORY<\/strong> (Japan, 2011, North American Premiere, 90 minutes) Truly trippy, this bizarro musical\/variety\/samurai\/love story from Japan is one solid slab of psychedelia from Yoshimasa Ishibashi, the mad genius behind the Fuccon Family.
\n***The movie\u2019s director, Yoshimasa Ishibashi, and star, Takayuki Yamada, will be at the screenings
\nPresented with Japan Cuts: Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema<\/p>\n

Centerpiece Presentation
\nSHAOLIN<\/strong> (Hong Kong, 2011, North American Premiere, 131 minutes)
\nIt doesn\u2019t get any bigger than this. Superstar Andy Lau, Nic Tse and Jackie Chan all star in this swank, blockbuster retelling of the primal martial arts story: the destruction of Shaolin Temple, which is the birthplace of martial arts. It\u2019s a movie that\u2019s been made many times (hence the alternate title NEW SHAOLIN TEMPLE) but never before has it been this massive, this lavish and this chock full o\u2019action.
\n***The movie\u2019s director, Benny Chan, will be at the screening<\/p>\n

Centerpiece Presentation
\nNINJA KIDS!!!<\/strong> (Japan, 2011, World Premiere, 100 minutes) – Takashi Miike has been impressing critics with 13 ASSASSINS and his 3D remake of HARA KIRI that just played Cannes. Whatever. We\u2019ve got the World Premiere of his insane new kid\u2019s flick about feuding ninja schools. People wonder where all the craziness went from Miike\u2019s two new films? He put it all in here. Your jaw will drop like an elevator with a snapped cable. We love you, Takashi Miike!!!
\nPresented with Japan Cuts: Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema<\/p>\n

Official Closing Night Film
\nTHE YELLOW SEA<\/strong> (Korea, 2010, New York Premiere, 156 minutes) – from the director of THE CHASER, and fresh out of Cannes, this is the Korean action movie in excelsis. A North Korean immigrant is sent to Seoul to perform a hit. Soon the Chinese mafia, the Korean mafia and the cops, are after him and hatchets are deployed, trucks are flipped and all hell breaks loose.
\n***The movie\u2019s director, Na Hong-Jin will be at the screening<\/p>\n

The 2011 Star Asia Awards will go to:<\/p>\n

Star Asia Rising Star Award
\nTakayuki Yamada – Japan\u2019s most versatile young actor has gone from being a TV heartthrob to a TRAIN MAN (his breakthrough role) to one of Takashi Miike\u2019s 13 ASSASSINS. And in this year\u2019s Opening Night selection, MILOCRORZE: A LOVE STORY, he plays every single male part.<\/p>\n

Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award
\nTsui Hark – One of our first events was a retrospective of Hong Kong\u2019s veteran filmmaker and award-winning director, Tsui Hark, way back in 2001. We figured it was time to bring him to the festival and recognize his extraordinary, lifelong contributions to Hong Kong cinema, especially after his latest film, DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME, was a huge box office hit and won \u201cBest Director\u201d at the Hong Kong Film Awards 2011.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve also got three special focuses:
\nWU XIA: HONG KONG\u2019S FLYING SWORDSMEN
\nPresented with the support of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office New York of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, this special focus is on Hong Kong\u2019s wu xia (literally \u201cmartial arts\u201d) films. It\u2019s a genre that\u2019s unique to Hong Kong and while it\u2019s all about showcasing the Chinese martial arts tradition it\u2019s come to refer specifically to that brain-expanding genre of Hong Kong movies that use the cutting edge of cinematography and the best special effects of the time to paint a world full of flying swordsmen, deadly female warriors, legendary blades and more than a touch of fantasy.<\/p>\n

This line-up will include:
\nDETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME<\/strong> (Hong Kong, 2010, 122 minutes) – Tsui Hark\u2019s return to greatness is a Holmes-ian fantasia about spontaneous combustion and kung fu deer. An exiled detective is returned to favor in the Imperial court to solve a series of mysterious deaths that delay the inauguration of the Empress Wu, played by Carina Lau, who won \u201cBest Actress\u201d at the Hong Kong Film Awards 2011 for her performance. The movie also won top prizes in Art Direction, Costume and Make-up Design as well as in Sound Design and Visual Effects.
\n***The movie\u2019s director, Tsui Hark, will be at the screening<\/p>\n

THE BLADE<\/strong> (Hong Kong, 1995, 100 minutes) – a rare screening of Tsui Hark\u2019s martial masterpiece, this is one of the towering achievements of Chinese cinema. In a rare 35mm print.
\n***The movie\u2019s director, Tsui Hark, will be at the screening<\/p>\n

DUEL TO THE DEATH<\/strong> (Hong Kong, 1983, 83 minutes) – Ching Siu-tung\u2019s directorial debut deploys ninjas, poisoned blades and some of the world\u2019s most innovative choreography to create a movie that\u2019s one part martial arts film, one part exploitation shocker and one part ballet. Screening on a rare 35mm print!<\/p>\n

DRAGON INN<\/strong> (Hong Kong, 1992, 109 minutes) – two of Hong Kong\u2019s greatest actresses, Maggie Cheung and Brigitte Lin, take on Donnie Yen\u2019s bloodless eunuch in this TsuiHark-produced swordplay romance. Directed by Raymond Lee, it\u2019s a remake of King Hu\u2019s 1967 masterpiece. A brand new print of this classic film, struck specially for the New York Asian Film Festival.
\n***The movie\u2019s producer, Tsui Hark, will be at the screening<\/p>\n

ZU: WARRIORS FROM THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN<\/strong> (Hong Kong, 1983, 94 minutes) – the movie that launched a thousand wu xia, Tsui Hark\u2019s surreal phantasmagoria will blow your mind. Recruiting Hollywood special effects technicians just off Star Wars and Star Trek the Motion Picture, Tsui Hark\u2019s film reinvented a genre and kickstarted Hong Kong\u2019s entire special effects industry. This is a rare chance to see a 35mm print of this movie in all its big screen glory.
\n***The movie\u2019s director, Tsui Hark, will be at the screening<\/p>\n

Special focus:
\nSEA OF REVENGE: NEW KOREAN THRILLERS
\nIn 2008, when the Korean film industry was at its lowest point, Na Hong-Jin released the word-of-mouth hit, THE CHASER, launching a wave of twisty thrillers focused on intense action and ace performances. In this special focus, presented in association with the Korean Cultural Service New York, we show you the best of what THE CHASER has wrought.<\/p>\n

This line-up will include:
\nTHE YELLOW SEA<\/strong> (Korea, 2010, New York Premiere, 156 minutes) – Na Hong-Jin reunites with his stars from THE CHASER to make this big, relentless follow-up. We\u2019ve got it fresh from its Cannes screening as part of Un Certain Regard
\n***The movie\u2019s director, Na Hong-Jin, will be at the screening<\/p>\n

THE UNJUST<\/strong> (Korea, 2010, New York Premiere, 119 minutes) – longtime festival favorite, action director Ryoo Seung-Wan, turns in this epic, sprawling corruption saga that recalls Sidney Lumet back in his PRINCE OF THE CITY days.
\n***The movie\u2019s director, Ryoo Seung-Wan, will be at the screening<\/p>\n

BEDEVILLED<\/strong> (Korea, 2010, New York Premiere, 115 minutes) – this time, the ladies are doing it. An all-female version of DELIVERANCE, where a city slicker goes to an insular rural community where she\u2019s not wanted. Possibly the greatest women vs. men movie ever made, lead actress Seo Young-Hee took home six \u201cBest Actress\u201d awards for her performance here.<\/p>\n

THE CHASER<\/strong> (Korea, 2008, 125 minutes) – the thriller that saved the Korean film industry, this mega-hit is what you\u2019d get if you cross-bred Alfred Hitchcock with a pit bull.
\n***The movie\u2019s director, Na Hong-Jin, will be at the screening<\/p>\n

HAUNTERS<\/strong> (Korea, 2010, New York Premiere, 114 minutes) – 50% superhero movie, 50% horror movie and 100% Korean thriller, this bigtime commercial
\nhit is about a troubled kid who can control minds and the simple guy, immune to his ability, who\u2019s out to stop him.<\/p>\n

THE MAN FROM NOWHERE<\/strong> (Korea, 2010, 119 minutes) – one part Batman, one part Bourne, Korean mega-star, Won Bin, revamped his image as a hard man of action with this movie about a spy coming out of retirement to take on a ring of organ harvesters. The number one movie at the Korean box office in 2010 (beating INCEPTION and IRON MAN 2), it took home SIXTEEN film awards!<\/p>\n

TROUBLESHOOTER<\/strong> (Korea, 2010, New York Premiere, 99 minutes) – produced by Ryoo Seung-Wan, this is a classic \u201cwrong man\u201d movie, only this time the wrong man is a hardcore ex-cop (Sol Kyung-Gu from the highly successful PUBLIC ENEMY series) and it\u2019s got the black, bleak sense of absurdist humor most thrillers lack.
\n***The movie\u2019s producer, Ryoo Seung-Wan, and director, Kwok Hyeok-Jae, will be at the screening<\/p>\n

Special focus:
\nSU CHAO-PIN: TAIWAN\u2019S KING OF ENTERTAINMENT
\nIn the US, we think of Taiwanese movies as an endless stream of art films. But with the support of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, we are proud to bring to New York one of the few Taiwanese directors who makes blockbuster hits that actual real live people go to see: Su Chao-pin!<\/p>\n

This line-up will include:
\nREIGN OF ASSASSINS<\/strong> (Hong Kong\/Taiwan\/China, 2010, 117 minutes, New York Premiere) – co-directed with John Woo, starring Michelle Yeoh and Korean star Jung Woo-Sung, this massive martial arts hit gives the genre a beating, bleeding, romantic heart.
\n***The movie\u2019s director and writer, Su Chao-pin, will be at the screening<\/p>\n

THE CABBIE<\/strong> (Taiwan, 2000, 94 minutes) – Su\u2019s first movie set new trends in Taiwan for actually being entertaining. He wrote this flick based on his experiences driving a cab, and it\u2019s a fast-paced black comedy about a cabbie in love with a traffic cop.
\n***The movie\u2019s writer, Su Chao-pin, will be at the screening<\/p>\n

BTS: BETTER THAN SEX<\/strong> (Taiwan, 2002, 92 minutes) – one of the most hyperactive, funniest movies about sex you\u2019ll ever see. Pity this poor teenage porn-addict who just wants to find a real girl. Way ahead of its time, this movie manages to be all about sex without feeling pervy.
\n***The movie\u2019s director and writer, Su Chao-pin, will be at the screening<\/p>\n

And now the full line-up!<\/p>\n

CHINA
\nBUDDHA MOUNTAIN<\/strong> (China, 2010, North American Premiere, 105 minutes) – gobbling up festival awards around the world, Sylvia Chang stars as a suicidal landlady who rents an apartment to three irritating young hipsters in this transcendent drama from Li Yu (LOST IN BEIJING) one of the only female directors working in China. Popular actress, Fan Bingbing (SHAOLIN), stars as one of the hipsters, but it\u2019s Sylvia Chang, the most important woman in Chinese show business in the 70\u2019s and 80\u2019s, who owns this movie.<\/p>\n

OCEAN HEAVEN<\/strong> (China\/Hong Kong, 2010, New York Premiere, 96 minutes) – directed by another female director, this movie sees Jet Li team up with cinematographer Christopher Doyle and composer Joe Hisaishi to make a restrained, heartbreaking movie about a dad (Jet Li) trying to teach his autistic son how to live on his own. Beautifully shot, scored, acted and observed, it\u2019s got no action, all heartbreak.<\/p>\n

HONG KONG
\nTHE BLADE<\/strong> (Hong Kong, 1995, 100 minutes) – part of Wu Xia focus.
\n***The movie\u2019s director, Tsui Hark, will be at the screening<\/p>\n

DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME<\/strong> (Hong Kong, 2010, 122 minutes) – part of Wu Xia focus.
\n***The movie\u2019s director, Tsui Hark, will be at the screening<\/p>\n

DRAGON INN<\/strong> (Hong Kong, 1992, 109 minutes) – part of Wu Xia focus. Brand new print!
\n***The movie\u2019s producer, Tsui Hark, will be at the screening<\/p>\n

DUEL TO THE DEATH<\/strong> (Hong Kong, 1983, 83 minutes) – part of Wu Xia focus.<\/p>\n

PUNISHED<\/strong> (Hong Kong, 2011, International Premiere, 94 minutes) – the latest movie produced by Johnnie To, this is a hardcore revenge drama featuring a powerhouse turn by Anthony Wong as a real estate billonaire whose wild child daughter has been kidnapped. Bullet-to-the-head action the way Hong Kong used to do it.<\/p>\n

SHAOLIN<\/strong> (Hong Kong\/China, 2011, North American Premiere, 131 minutes) – Centerpiece Presentation
\n***The movie\u2019s director, Benny Chan, will be at the screening<\/p>\n

RIKI-OH: THE STORY OF RICKY<\/strong> (Hong Kong, 1991, 91 minutes) – the classic Hong Kong midnight action movie about prison privatization and monsters who strangle you with their guts. Rarely seen on the big screen, this is a full-on, ridiculously crazy mind-melter full of crucifixion, flaying, classic kung fu combat and prison wardens who keep breath mints in their glass eyeballs.<\/p>\n

ZU: WARRIORS FROM THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN<\/strong> (Hong Kong, 1983 94 minutes) – part of Wu Xia focus.
\n***The movie\u2019s director, Tsui Hark, will be at the screening<\/p>\n

JAPAN
\n13 ASSASSINS: DIRECTOR’S CUT<\/strong> (Japan, 2010, 141 minutes, New York Premiere) – the complete UNCUT version of Takashi Miike\u2019s samurai masterpiece. With 17 minutes of original footage restored.
\n***One of the movie\u2019s stars, Takayuki Yamada, will be at the screening<\/p>\n

ABRAXAS<\/strong> (Japan, 2010, New York Premiere, 113 minutes) – straight outta Sundance comes this movie about a punk rocker turned Buddhist monk who still yearns to rock out.<\/p>\n

BATTLE ROYALE<\/strong> (Japan, 2000, 114 minutes) – a celebratory screening of Kinji Fukasaku\u2019s masterpiece now that it finally – after 10 years!!!! – has a new distributor who wants people to actually see it. Presented with Japan Cuts: Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema<\/p>\n

A BOY AND HIS SAMURAI<\/strong> (Japan, 2010, North American Premiere, 109 minutes) – the director of FISH STORY and GOLDEN SLUMBER returns to the festival with this family film about a samurai who winds up in the modern era. Surprisingly, it then becomes an exceptional food movie! This is the father-son movie you\u2019ve been looking for.<\/p>\n

DARK ON DARK<\/strong> (Japan, 2011, International Premiere, 17 minutes) – this short film is the directorial debut from Makoto Ohtake, a well-known Japanese comedian and actor since the 80\u2019s (he\u2019s worked extensively with Takeshi Kitano and the popular City Boys troupe). It\u2019s all about a two-bit talent manager and his outrageously endowed adult video talent bringing peace into the world via their various \u201cgifts.\u201d Screens with HORNY HOUSE OF HORROR.<\/p>\n

GANTZ<\/strong> and GANTZ: PERFECT ANSWER<\/strong> (Japan, 2011, 130 minutes & 150 minutes) – presented back-to-back it\u2019s the uncut, subtitled, live action movies based on Japan\u2019s existential sci fi action manga. It\u2019s the New York Premiere of the subtitled GANTZ and the North American Premiere of the subtitled GANTZ: PERFECT ANSWER. Presented with Japan Cuts: Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema<\/p>\n

HEAVENS STORY<\/strong> (Japan, 2010, North American Premiere, 278 minutes) – \u201cKing of Pink Films\u201d Takahisa Zeze spent almost two years shooting this 4 hour movie about two random murders and the heartbreak, trauma and healing that spills out from them over the next two decades. Monumental and strange, passionate and philosophical, this is an epic in every sense of the word and a towering achievement in film. Presented with Japan Cuts: Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema<\/p>\n

HORNY HOUSE OF HORROR<\/strong> (Japan, 2010, North American Premiere, 75 minutes) \u00ac Japan does the violent porno horror thing better than anyone else and this oddity features butt-walls, wiener-eating and demon hookers. This is the directorial debut from the writer of MUTANT GIRLS SQUAD, and it\u2019s firmly in the vein of that film and ROBO GEISHA. Only, you know, set in a horny house that\u2019s full of horror. Preceded by: DARK ON DARK (see above, 17 minutes)<\/p>\n

KARATE-ROBO ZABORGAR<\/strong> (Japan, 2011, New York Premiere, 106 minutes) \u00ac Noboru Iguchi (Robo Geisha) makes his best film yet. Not just that, but this is the best-looking flick from label, Sushi Typhoon, yet. Slick, big budget and almost family friendly, it\u2019s based on an obscure TV show from the 70\u2019s about a young, bright-eyed police officer and his karate robot (who transforms into a motorcycle) fighting crime. But in Iguchi\u2019s version, the two split up and have to reunite years later after middle-age has taken its toll.<\/p>\n

THE LAST DAYS OF THE WORLD<\/strong> (Japan, 2011, World Premiere, 96 minutes) – a return to the trippy, socially-engaged, blackly comic, ridiculously violent revolutionary movies of Japan\u2019s 60\u2019s. A high school student has a vision that the world is ending and so, faced with no consequences, he abducts a fellow student and goes on a crime spree.<\/p>\n

LOVE AND LOATHING AND LULU AND AYANO<\/strong> (Japan, 2010, North American Premiere, 105 minutes) – based on a book of interviews with porn film dayworkers, this exuberant, anime-influenced movie about life on the bottom rungs of the adult film business treats life in the porno business as a chance for some actors to escape theirhumdrum, everyday existences. Presented with Japan Cuts: Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema<\/p>\n

MILOCRORZE: A LOVE STORY<\/strong> (Japan, 2011, North American Premiere, 90 minutes)
\nOpening Night Movie ***The movie\u2019s director, Yoshimasa Ishibashi, and star, Takayuki Yamada, will be at the screenings Presented with Japan Cuts: Festival of Contemporary <\/p>\n

Japanese Cinema
\nNINJA KIDS!!!<\/strong> (Japan, 2011, World Premiere, 100 minutes) – Centerpiece Presentation Presented with Japan Cuts: Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema<\/p>\n

OSAMU TEZUKA’S BUDDHA: THE GREAT DEPARTURE<\/strong> (Japan, 2011, North American Premiere, 111 minutes) – the much-anticipated animated epic based on Osamu Tezuka\u2019s landmark life of the Buddha. Presented with Japan Cuts: Festival of New Japanese Film<\/p>\n

RINGING IN THEIR EARS<\/strong> (Japan, 2011, International Premiere, 89 minutes) – Yu Irie (8000 MILES 1 & 2) returns with this ambitious flick about an upcoming concert by a reclusive rock group and the managers, obsessed fans, shut-ins, single moms and kindergarten teachers who are affected by it. A true tribute to the healing power of rock and roll.
\nPresented with Japan Cuts: Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema<\/p>\n

VERSUS<\/strong> (Japan, 2000, 120 minutes) – a tenth-anniversary celebration of the Japanese zombie action film that launched a thousand horror\/splatter\/action flicks. ***Star and action choreographer, Tak Sakaguchi, and writer, Yudai Yamaguchi, will be at the screening.<\/p>\n

YAKUZA WEAPON<\/strong> (Japan, 2011, New York Premiere, 105 minutes) – stuntman-turned-director, Tak Sakaguchi, turns in a high calibre, action-heavy riff on Robocop all about a robot yakuza out to put his fist through the skulls of the bad guys. From Sushi Typhoon, purveyor of movies like Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl.
\n***The movie\u2019s director and star, Tak Sakaguchi, and co-director and writer, Yudai Yamaguchi, will be at the screening Presented with Japan Cuts: Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema<\/p>\n

KOREA
\nBATTLEFIELD HEROES<\/strong> (Korea, 2011, New York Premiere, 118 minutes) – an absurdist satire about war, this movie from Lee Joon-Ik (director of KING AND CLOWN, the highest-grossing Korean film of all time) is like a Terry Gilliam movie gone Korean as a farmer too poor to even have a name gets drafted into one of medieval Korea\u2019s eternal wars.
\n***The movie\u2019s director, Lee Joon-Ik, will be at the screening.<\/p>\n

BEDEVILLED<\/strong> (Korea, 2010, New York Premiere, 115 minutes) – part of Sea of Revenge focus.<\/p>\n

THE CHASER<\/strong> (Korean, 2008, 125 minutes) – part of Sea of Revenge focus.<\/p>\n

CITY OF VIOLENCE<\/strong> (Korea, 2006, 92 minutes) – an encore presentation of the best all-out action film from Ryoo Seung-Wan (THE UNJUST). Like a less ironic version of KILL BILL.
\n***The movie\u2019s director, Ryoo Seung-Wan, will be at the screening<\/p>\n

FOXY FESTIVAL<\/strong> (Korea, 2010, North American Premiere, 110 minutes) \u00ac a \u201cMaking Our Neighborhoods Safe & Happy\u201d festival has the vice cops working overtime in this multi-character comedy that\u2019s like a Robert Altman flick about fetishes. Love – and handcuffs, and nipple clamps – all conspire to save the day from the forces of conformity.<\/p>\n

HAUNTERS<\/strong> (Korea, 2010, New York Premiere, 114 minutes) – part of Sea of Revenge focus.<\/p>\n

THE MAN FROM NOWHERE<\/strong> (Korea, 2010, 119 minutes) – part of Sea of Revenge focus.<\/p>\n

MSFF SHORTS<\/strong> (Korea, 2010) – Korea\u2019s best directors assemble two selections of that country\u2019s best short horror, action and comedy movies just for you.<\/p>\n

THE RECIPE<\/strong> (Korea, 2010, New York Premiere, 107 minutes) – a serial killer escapes from prison but is recaptured when he stops to eat a bowl of stew that\u2019s so good he loses track of time. What is the secret behind the stew? Korea finally delivers its best food film with this kitchen romance.<\/p>\n

TROUBLESHOOTER<\/strong> (Korea, 2010, New York Premiere, 99 minutes) – part of Sea of Revenge focus. ***The movie\u2019s producer, Ryoo Seung-Wan, and director, Kwok Hyeok-Jae, will be at the screening<\/p>\n

THE UNJUST<\/strong> (Korea, 2010, New York Premiere, 119 minutes) – part of Sea of Vengeance focus. ***The movie\u2019s director, Ryoo Seung-Wan, will be at the screening<\/p>\n

THE YELLOW SEA<\/strong> (Korea, 2010, New York Premiere, 156 minutes) – Closing Night Movie Part of Sea of Revenge focus.
\n***The movie\u2019s director, Na Hong-Jin, will be at the screening<\/p>\n

MALAYSIA
\nSELL OUT<\/strong> (Malaysia, 2008, New York Premiere, 110 minutes) – one of the best, smartest and funniest movies ever made in Malaysia finally escapes from the clutches of its evil distributor and it was worth the wait. A musical about money, creativity and a reality show focusing on those who are about to die, this is like nothing else in our line-up except (maybe) MILOCRORZE.<\/p>\n

PHILIPPINES
\nMACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED<\/strong> (Australia, 2010, New York Premiere, 84 minutes) – from the people who made Not Quite Hollywood, comes this definitive documentary about the Filipino exploitation film bonanza that erupted in the 70\u2019s and 80\u2019s.<\/p>\n

RAW FORCE<\/strong> (Philippines\/USA, 1982, 86 minutes) – one of the strangest Filipino\/US co-productions from the 80\u2019s, this rarely-screened exploitation fever dream is better known by its other title Kung Fu Cannibals. With zombies, ninjas, samurai, kung fu, and evil monks, this is the entire 1980\u2019s exploitation industry fired into your eyes via firehose.<\/p>\n

TAIWAN
\nBETTER THAN SEX<\/strong> (Taiwan, 2002, 92 minutes) \u00ac part of Su Chao-pin focus.
\n***The movie\u2019s director, Su Chao-pin, will be at the screening<\/p>\n

THE CABBIE<\/strong> (Taiwan, 2000, 94 minutes) – part of Su Chao-pin focus
\n***The movie\u2019s writer, Su Chao-pin, will be at the screening<\/p>\n

REIGN OF ASSASSINS<\/strong> (Hong Kong\/Taiwan\/China, 2010, 117 minutes) \u00ac part of Su Chao-pin focus.
\n***The movie\u2019s co-director and writer, Su Chao-pin, will be at the screening<\/p>\n

THAILAND
\nBKO: BANGKOK KNOCKOUT<\/strong> (Thailand, 2010, New York Premiere, 105 minutes) – Tony Jaa\u2019s mentor, Panna Rittikrai, will school you now. This exploitation stunt-tacular features all his best stuntmen and women unleashing muay thai, capoeira, dirt bike fu, shovel beatdowns, fights on fire, fights in the water, fights under trucks, fights in mid-air, and two back-to-back climactic smackdowns that have to be seen to be believed.<\/p>\n

Prepare yourselves for the best New York Asian Film Festival yet!!!<\/p>\n

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\nUnder the leadership of Rose Kuo, Executive Director, and Richard Pe\u00f1a, Program Director, The Film Society of Lincoln Center offers the best in international, classic and cutting-edge independent cinema. The Film Society presents two film festivals that attract global attention: the New York Film Festival, currently planning its 49th edition, and New Directors\/New Films which, since its founding in 1972, has been produced in collaboration with MoMA. The Film Society also publishes the award-winning Film Comment Magazine, and for over three decades has given an annual award (now named \u201cThe Chaplin Award\u201d) to a major figure in world cinema. Past recipients of this award include Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, and Tom Hanks. The Film Society presents a year-round calendar of programming, panels, lectures, educational programs and specialty film releases at its Walter Reade Theater and the new state-of-the-art Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, opening June 2011. The Film Society receives generous, year-round support from 42BELOW, American Airlines, The New York Times, Stella Artois, the National Endowment for the Arts, WNET New York Public Media, Royal Bank of Canada and the New York State Council on the Arts. For more information, visit their website here <\/p>\n

ABOUT NYAFF
\nSubway Cinema is a New York-based film programming, exhibition, and marketing collective, committed to increasing exposure and appreciation for Asia’s popular cinema with year-round events and screenings. Its flagship event is the New York Asian Film Festival (July 1 – 14) which the New York Times has called “…one of the city’s most valuable events…” Launched in 2002, the NYAFF is America’s leading and most influential showcase for popular Asian cinema. Each year, the Festival selects over 40 feature films, and only the best, the strangest, and the most entertaining make the cut. The NYAFF was the first North American film festival to put a spotlight on Johnnie To, Bong Joon-Ho and Park Chan-Wook and it also held the largest retrospective of Tsui Hark’s work outside of Hong Kong. It is widely considered invincible.<\/p>\n

The NYAFF is made possible through the support of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office New York, the Korean Cultural Service New York, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, Japan Foundation and the Kitano Hotel.<\/p>\n

ABOUT JAPAN SOCIETY
\nThe Japan Society Film Program has offered a diverse selection of Japanese films, from classics to contemporary independent productions. The Program has included retrospectives of seminal directors, thematic series and special screenings of international, U.S. and NY premieres. Several original film series curated by Japan Society have traveled to other U.S. venues in tours organized by the Film Program. The Film Program has provided English subtitles for films which have never been screened outside of Japan. Accompanying lectures help place the films in their aesthetic and social contexts, and filmmakers often introduce and discuss their work. This year, Japan Cuts: Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema (July 7 – 22, 2011) becomes the world’s largest showcase of contemporary Japanese cinema with 32 films in its line-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Folks, it’s almost that time of the year where the BEST film festival in NYC is about to blast off from July 1st-July 14th! Check out the programming below courtesy of the wonderful organizers of this event, SUBWAY CINEMA! Looks like this martian might go broke! From the retro films of Tsui Hark like ‘the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1893],"tags":[1079,476,475,480],"class_list":["post-3579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-mrc","tag-2011-nyaff","tag-new-york-asian-film-festival","tag-nyaff","tag-subway-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3579"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16623,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions\/16623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetchocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}