Far East Film Festival Archives

Matsunaga Daishi – Egoist #FarEastFilmFestival

Yasashisa 優しさ, kindness. With this word the actress Sawako Agawa — who plays the role of Nakamura Taeko in the film — defines the sweet and at times bitter film by Matsunaga Daishi, one of the most awaited films of the twenty-fifth edition of the FEFF.

May 10, 2023 1

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Sophia Wong Boccio – Asian Pop-Up Cinema #FarEastFilmFestival

Discovering Asian Pop-Up Cinema in Chicago.

May 9, 2023 1

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Far East Film Festival Interview

Hiroki Ryuchi – Phases of the Moon #Fareastfilmfestival

The belief in reincarnation is widespread in Southeast Asia but less so in the Western world. As a result, Phases of the Moon, a multi-layered drama by Hiroki Ryuichi where reincarnation is the main theme, might face challenges in overcoming certain cultural and religious barriers.

May 9, 2023 1

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Watanabe Hirobumi, Watanabe Yuji – Techno Brothers #FarEastFilmFestival

For the eighth film, the musical comedy Techno Brothers, Watanabe finally leaves Otawara venturing on a wider road – or rather the highway to Tokyo, where the title group, formed by Watanabe, his brother Watanabe Yuji and his friend Kurosaki Takanori, goes in search of fame and success.

May 9, 2023 1

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Johnnie To – Sparrow #FarEastFilmFestival

There is a thin red thread that connects Johnnie To's most personal works like this "Sparrow", or like "Throw down", and it is the love that transpires in photographing Hong Kong and the love for cinema in different forms.

May 9, 2023 1

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Suzuki Masayuki, Wakamatsu Hiroki, Koyama Kundo – Yudo – The Way of the Bath #FarEastFilmFestival

Based on an original screenplay by Koyama Kundo, who also has an Oscar-winning film to his credit such as Departures, the story of Yudo reserves us the pleasure of visually lingering on the movie's sento, a pearl of the architecture of the public baths of the era Showa (1926-1989).

May 9, 2023

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Nakamura Mayu, Nahana – She is me, I am her #FarEastFilmFestival

The pandemic has arrived and has almost completely ended with hardly any films being made in Japan on the subject Director Nakamura Mayu's four-episode anthology film She Is Me, I Am Her, which has as its main theme isolation and the loneliness brought by the pandemic is a very welcome exception.

May 5, 2023

Far East Film Festival Interview

Matsunaga Daishi – Egoist #FarEastFilmFestival

Yasashisa 優しさ, kindness. With this word the actress Sawako Agawa — who plays the role of Nakamura Taeko in the film — defines the sweet and at times bitter film by Matsunaga Daishi, one of the most awaited films of the twenty-fifth edition of the FEFF.

May 5, 2023