East Asian Films At 66th Venice Film Festival
on Jul 31, 2009 in Hong Kong Films Japanese films Golden Lion Venice Film Festival Taiwanese films Chinese Films The feature films competing for the Golden Lion at the 66th Venice Film Festival has just been announced and three East Asian films have made it into this prestigious list:Pou-Soi Cheang's Yi Ngoi (Accident) from Hong Kong starring Louis Koo, Richie...

Korean Movie News - The Host Sequel and Jang Dong-Gun returns to big screen
on Jul 23, 2009 in The Host 2 Korean Movie Jang Dong Gun Korean film The Host upcoming movies Two recent news reports made me pretty excited - the official sequel to the Korean mega-blockbuster The Host is in the works and popular Hallyu actor Jang Dong-Gun will be returning to the silver screen after an absence of four years.The Host 2Accord...

Yoon Eun-Hye's New Drama - Lady Castle
on Jun 30, 2009 in Yoon Eun Hye Korean Drama Series Korean drama serial Yoon Eun-Hye, the sweet, lovable star of popular Korean dramas like Goong and Coffee Prince finally has a new Korean drama in the works - Lady Castle! Yup, the long wait for hew new drama is at last coming to a close!Lady Castle is about three very r...

Chinese Movie News From The Shanghai Film Festival
on Jun 21, 2009 in Shanghai film festival Chinese Movie upcoming movies Chinese Films There has been a flurry of news on upcoming Chinese movies at the just concluded Shanghai Film Festival.1. The creators of the upcoming big-budget Chinese film Bodyguards and Assassins unveiled their huge HK$50 million film set to the press. The film...

Kimura Takuya Continues Winning Streak
on May 26, 2009 in ratings Japanese drama series Kimura Takuya The ratings for trendy dramas in Japan have been rather low since the start of this year but trust the ever-popular Mr. Kimura Takuya to put things right. His new drama Mr. Brain jumped to the top of the ratings charts on its very first episode on Sa...

New IRIS Trailer
on May 14, 2009 in Korean Drama Series Korean Drama Korean drama serial IRIS IRIS, the much anticipated 20 billion won mega-budget Korean spy drama starring Lee Byung-Hun (last seen as 'The Bad' in The Good, The Bad, The Weird), Kim Tae-Hee (unforgettable in Love Story In Harvard), Jung Jun-Ho, Kim Seung-Woo, Kim So-Yeon and...

Asian Directors Shine At Cannes
on Apr 26, 2009 in Cannes Cannes Film Festival They say that when times are bad (like now), arts and cinematic works shine even more brightly, and if the explosion of creativity at this year's Cannes Film Festival is anything to go by, this adage proves to be most true. This year's line-up is wid...

Local Films Triumph At Hong Kong Film Awards
on Apr 22, 2009Local productions were the big winners in this year's Hong Kong Film Awards held on 19th April. Big-budget co-productions like Red Cliff lost out to movies with a local flavor like The Way We Are in the major award categories like Best Director and B...

More Boys Before Flowers News
on Apr 6, 2009 in Chinese drama series Hong Kong drama series Korean Drama Korean drama serial Boys Before Flowers The average ratings of the last episode (25th) of the hit Korean adaptation of Hana Yori Dango - Boys Before Flowers (or Boys Over Flowers), which aired on 31st March, was a very respectable 34.8%. And the all-time highest rating of the series was a...

East Asian Films Generating Massive Buzz
on Mar 27, 2009 in Korean film Chinese Film Asian Film Awards After the superb Departures (Okuribito) won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Japanese films continued their winning streak at the recent Asian Film Awards held in Hong Kong. Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata, a movie about a family's breakdown...