8 Asians

EDITORS NOTE from Joz: 8Asians is proud to be a community co-presenter of various films at the 2013 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, presented by Visual Communications. One common theme that has been echoing in some of the documentaries presented in Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival is that mix-raced Asians either in the states or in an Asian country, or Asian immigrants are trying to find out who they are and what country [...] Continue »

EDITORS NOTE from Joz: 8Asians is proud to be a community co-presenter of various films at the 2013 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, presented by Visual Communications. Compared to the confusing story line of Stateless, Jake Shimbabukuro: Life On Four Strings tells a much stronger story of a Japanese American ukulele player. It started with a beautiful ukulele melody and effective close ups on the dancing fingers on the instrument. The film provided a [...] Continue »

EDITORS NOTE from Joz: 8Asians is proud to be a community co-presenter of various films at the 2013 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, presented by Visual Communications. Stateless is a documentary in Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival that tells stories of different Vietnamese refugees residing in the Philippine and the painful process of waiting for the resettlement interviews from the U.S. government. It showed the painful plight of these stateless refugees who banked [...] Continue »

EDITORS NOTE from Joz: 8Asians is proud to be a community co-presenter of various films at the 2013 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, presented by Visual Communications. Among the many heavy topics in the films of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival from May 2 to 12, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow provides a touch of humor in a bitter story of a gay man trying to hide his sexuality in a [...] Continue »

Hot Docs, North America’s largest International Documentary Festival opens its doors April 25th – May 5. Held in Toronto each year, the festival buzzes with filmmakers and industry agents sharing their untold stories and bringing issues to light for all the world to see and judge for themselves. This year boosts 205 films form 43 different countries. I’ve always had a soft spot for the documentary filmmaker. Rarely is there any lure of glitter, glamour [...] Continue »

CAAMFest long conclude over a week ago, but I finally got around to seeing my last DVD screener for the Taiwanese documentary Go Grandriders:

After catching the fantastic LINSANITY documentary film during the kickoff of CAAMFest 2013, I caught the two films Comrade Kim Goes Flying and High Tech, Low Life on Saturday night.

By Mitchell K. Dwyer In Another Country (2012); English and Korean with English subtitles. Isabelle Huppert, Yoo Jun-sang, Kwon Hae-hyo, Moon So-ri, and Jung Yoo-mi. Written and directed by Hong Sang-soo. A French woman who speaks no Korean. A young woman who manages a bed-and-breakfast. A married couple expecting a first child. A muscular but air-headed lifeguard. A coastal Korean town, some soju, a lighthouse, and the line, “You have to be careful with that [...] Continue »

Whatcha Wearin’? (Original title:나의 PS 파트너 MY PS PARTNER) is a sexy romantic comedy about how relationships both make and destroy us and how a little phone sex just may help you make that connection. After finding out his ex-girlfriend has a new boyfriend so soon after their break-up, Hyun-seung (JiSung) accidentally gets a call from Yun-jung (Kim AhJoong) attempting to spice up her dull relationship with a little phone sex. The two strike up [...] Continue »

Okay, I’ll admit, when I first heard about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles back in the late 80s when the first cartoon series came out (and I was 10), I remember thinking “Ninja TURTLES? That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard of!” So I had to watch it, and I have been a huge TMNT fan ever since. To my geeky delight, a new Nickelodeon TMNT TV series has just been released this [...] Continue »

I’ve been catching the Hulu streaming releases of the Nickelodeon’s series Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, and as huge fan of the Kung Fu Panda movies, I have not been disappointed. I was wary at first, thinking the TV series based on the successful movies was going to be a sad, watered down version of the originals. In fact, I rather enjoy these short episodes more than the second installment movie of the franchise, [...] Continue »

By Mitchell K. Dwyer A Werewolf Boy (2012); Korean with English subtitles Park Bo-young, Song Joong-ki.  Written and directed by Jo Sung-hee. I recently heard a prominent sports columnist admit that he never felt more guilt than when, after harshly scolding his old dog for disobedience, he realized the reason for the noncompliance was that his dog had gone deaf. If the depth of this writer’s guilt is unfathomable to you, I’m willing to bet [...] Continue »