King’s College, London launches new film festival showcasing the best in independent Asian and Diasporic Cinema: Re:mind #remindfilmfestival
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ANTHONY CHEN reflects on the final chapter of his so-called “Growing Up Trilogy” journey WE ARE ALL STRANGERS | The opening film for #FEFF28 this Friday! #Udinefareastfilm
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Here’s one you probably weren’t expecting: THE AMSTERDAM KILL | Available now on Blu-ray from #88_Films
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An amazing piece of Wuxia cinema that lends hope not just for a sequel, but for the future of the genre as a whole! | In UK & IE cinemas now from #Cineasia and coming to to #FEFF28 #Udinefareastfilm with guest YUEN WOO-PING!
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35 years after it first came to UK audiences, AKIRA is back in more than 400 cinemas and every IMAX! 'A truly seminal piece of science fiction and animation' ★★★★★ | @alltheanime.com
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After the death of their mother two siblings go to live with their estranged father, only to be confronted with a sinister family legacy | #cineXtremes does Indonesian horror streaming on @netflix.com!
Beyond the Pure Girl: A reappraisal of BRIGITTE LIN's formative career in Taiwan before her Hong Kong breakthrough | PEKING OPERA BLUES - starring LIn - is available now on 4k UHD/Blu-ray from @imprintfilms.bsky.social
Jackie Chan and the CGI panda return for more heartwarming and patriotic hijinks! | Released in select theaters by @wellgousa.bsky.social
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Mipo O’s perfect cast of children run rings around the adults in HOW DARE YOU? ★★★★ Showing now at the Japanese Film Festival Ireland #JFF_Ireland
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A man finds himself trapped in an endless subway corridor in hit Japanese video game adaptation EXIT 8 | Screening at Japanese Film Festival Ireland #JFF_Ireland and in US cinemas now via @neon-rated.bsky.social
Jason Pai Piao sculpts a crystal beauty who terrorises the martial world in PORTRAIT IN CRYSTAL | Available on Blu-ray now as part of @arrowvideo.bsky.social's Shawscope Volume Four
Martial arts choreographer legend YUEN WOO-PING to receive Golden Mulberry Award for Lifetime Achievement! Blades of the Guardians will also close the Far East Film Festival festival #FEFF28 #UdineFarEastFilm
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Queer East is back for its seventh year, returning to London cinema screens from 1 May to 6 June 2026! @queereast
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“If the original is like a bizarre cocktail, Bugonia felt more like a smoky cocktail” With Save the Green Planet! now available in a 4K restoration by @arrowvideo.bsky.social, we look back at the cult classic with its writer and director JANG JOON-HWAN
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Far East Film Festival returns for its 28th edition! Fan Binging and Yakusho Koji to receive the Golden Mulberry Award for Lifetime Achievement #fareastfilm #FEFF28
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Japanese Film Festival Ireland returns for 2026. Back for its 17th year with ten locations across Ireland with fifteen films! #JFF_Ireland
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A low budget Chinese knock-off of The Faculty featuring lots of dodgy CGI tentacles and very little else | This week's #cineXtremes entry!
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CHOU HSU-CHIANG delivers a character focused tale of horror in THE ENCHANTING GHOST ★★★★½ | Released by @88films.bsky.social
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On the anniversary of his death, we look back on a screen legend...
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A wild, ravishing revisionist wuxia: THE BLADE ★★★★ | Available in restored 4K and Blu-ray now (US) from 13 April (UK), released by @criterion.bsky.social
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An artfully composed paean to the yakuza genre- Takashi Miike's AGITATOR ★★★★ | Available now as part of @filmsradiance.bsky.social's Underworld Chronicles: Three Yakuza Fables by Takashi Miike
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A group of Japanese high school students find themselves trapped in a time loop and pursued by a murderous spirit | This week's #cineXtremes entry streaming now on @netflix.com!
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CinemAsia Film Festival 2026 unveils lineup of 44 films - Amsterdam-based festival is back for its 18th edition #cinemasia_nl
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Joey Wong is the highlight of a very pretty, but unimaginative fantasy: PICTURE OF A NYMPH | Available now on Blu-ray from @88films.bsky.social
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Nearly a quarter of a century on from its original release, we revisit one of the breakthrough Asian hits of the early 2000s that proved there was more to supernatural scares than J-Horror | Coming to restored 4K UHD from @arrowvideo.bsky.social
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Interesting but flawed exploration of celebrity culture: HELTER SKELTER | Available on Blu-ray from today, from @88films.bsky.social
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CHOU HSU-CHIANG brings ghosts, magic and love in THE BRIDE FROM HELL ★★★★ | Available on Blu-ray as part of Shaw-Shock: Shaw Brothers Horror Collection - Volume Two from @imprintfilms.bsky.social
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"A whimsy summer story in a coastal Japanese town" Seaside Serendipity screens this Sunday as part of Asian Pop-Up Cinema #2026APUC #asianpopupcinema
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A new Indonesian take on the 2004 Thai horror classic which leans more into melodrama than the supernatural: SHUTTER | This week's #cineXtremes entry streaming now on @netflix.com!
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Chicago's Asian Pop-Up Cinema returns for 20th Edition! The Windy City's premiere Film Festival is back with a selection of the best new latest Asian films #2026APUC #asianpopupcinema
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