#NYAFF2024 World Premiere - Baby Assassins Nice Days (2024) - the first BA didn’t blow me away, but this second sequel is a significant improvement in every respect. The balance of action to humor is far more even, with a real sense of menace, and the fights are insane. #filmsky

SUFFOCATING LOVE (2023) NYAFF 2024 Story of a young man who meets and falls for a girl with whom he is exchanging books as part of book exchange club.  As he falls for her she...

SUFFOCATING LOVE at #NYAFF2024 is a riff on 500 Days of Summer www.unseenfilms.net/2024/07/suff...

Women from Rote Island (2024) NYAFF 2024 WARNING: This film contains scenes, both graphic and implied, of violence, sexual and other kinds, against women I say that up front because...

Thoughts on the deeply disturbing look at violence against women WOMEN OF ROTE ISLAND which plays at #NYAFF2024 tonight www.unseenfilms.net/2024/07/wome...

#NYAFF2024 off to check out the new Baby Assassins with Q&A. Only seen the first one, but reckon I’ll be fine.

Brief thoughts on Trouble Girl (2024) NYAFF 2024 Xiao xiao is a young woman with ADHD (Attention deficit hyper activity disorder).  She is struggling to deal with what life is throwing at h...

I liked the award winning TROUBLE GIRL which is playing #NYAFF2024. It shows the affect of ADHD on everyone round the sufferer www.unseenfilms.net/2024/07/brie...

The Escaping Man (2023) NYAFF 2023 Wang Yichun returns to NYAFF with a film where pretty much everyone is morally compromised. The film has Sheng Li getting out of prison afte...

THE ESCAPING MAN is a comedy about people so morally bankrupt that they send a nice kid to shrink because has morals. It's good film playing #NYAFF2024 www.unseenfilms.net/2024/07/the-...

Frankenstein Father (2023) NYAFF 2024 A successful and very OCD doctor is confronted by a young boy claiming to be his son from an illegal sperm donation years before. He wants c...

FRANKENSTEIN FATHER at #NYAFF2024 is about young man who confronts the sperm donor father about the genetic issues he has. It didn't work for me with the leads being much too cold to connect to unseenfilms.net/2024/07/fran...

#NYAFF2024 Let’s Go Karaoke (2023) - Nobuhiro Yamashita (Linda Linda Linda) hits us with another film about found family through creating music, with an adaptation of the manga comedy about an unlikely friendship between a middle school choir star and a yakuza. And it’s fun! /1 #filmsky

A brief take on Ichiko (2023) NYAFF 2024 A woman hears a news story concerning an accident and decides to bolt from the apartment he lives in with he fiance. He is left to sort out ...

A brief take on Ichiko which is at #NYAFF2024 www.unseenfilms.net/2024/07/a-br...

#NYAFF2024 World Premiere - The Killers (2024) - anthology film loosely inspired by Hemingway’s story (already the subject of two all-time greats) and Hopper’s Nighthawks, all featuring Shim Eun-Kyu. Mixed bag, but all dripping with style, with Roh Deok’s Contractors as the clear standout. #filmsky

The Killers (2024) NYAFF 2024 Fantasia 2024 THE KILLERS is a very good multipart film that suffers the fate of any portmanteau or anthology film in that the parts are uneven with the b...

It World Premiered at #NYAFF2024 & now is going to #FantasiaFest THE KILLERS is an anthology film with 4 films about hit men. 2 parts are some of the best stuff you'll see all year. 2 are good but suffer because of the other parts. Highly recommended www.unseenfilms.net/2024/07/the-...

Let's Go Karaoke! (2024) NYAFF 2024 Manga based tale concerns a yakuza soldier who forms a friendship with high school boy whom he wants to teach him to sing. Off kilter story ...

LET'G GO KARAOKE! at #NYAFF2024 is based on a manga and concerns a yakuza soldier who wants a teen to teach him to sing. I had a lot of questions... www.unseenfilms.net/2024/07/lets...

#NYAFF2024 Gobangiri aka Bushido (2024) - Kazuya Shiraishi has been making fantastic police and gangster thrillers, and even a wildly political installment of Kamen Rider, but here he tackles the jidaigeki samurai film for the first time. And crushes it. /1 #filmsky

Bushido(2024) NYAFF 2024 Don't go into BUSHIDO expecting clashing swords and a high body count, this is another sort of film.  Yea, swords are drawn but this is a fi...

BUSHIDO at #NYAFF2024 is not so much about clashing swords but the sharacters and the game of go. www.unseenfilms.net/2024/07/bush...

Saw BRUSH OF THE GOD at #NYAFF2024 tonight (it will be playing #FANTASIA2024). Its a passion project involving kaiju and movies and what we remember-and it's a loving one of a kind film that you should see big. A review when I can write it

Yin Yang Master Zero (2024) NYAFF 2024 Fantasia 2024 Abe no Seimei was an actual Yin Yang master. By the time he died he had become do famous all sorts of legends were written about him.  Those...

YIN-YANG MASTER ZERO is playing both #NYAFF2024 & #FANTASIA2024. It's a restart of the franchise with Seimei still in school but getting involved with a princess & murder. I would love to see more www.unseenfilms.net/2024/07/yin-...

A pointer toward Reversi (2024) NYAFF 2024 A man who can jump back in time, uses his ability to keep his wife and son safe. I'm not going to  review REVERSI. It's not that it's a bad ...

A pointer toward REVERSI a film about a man who can jump back in time who uses it to save his family. Think of it as ABOUT TIME but as a thriller #NYAFF2024 unseenfilms.net/2024/07/a-po...

In brief: The Missing (2023) NYAFF 2024 Fantasia 2024 Mute young man begins to lose himself  when after he finds his uncle dead. The first film from the Philippines submitted to the Oscars for B...

THE MISSING is playing both #NYAFF2024 & #FANTASIA2024. It's the story of a young man who begins to disappear. It's actually a tale about surviving sexual abuse that will either thrill you or bore you unseenfilms.net/2024/07/in-b...

Upcoming film Victory confirmed to have a world premiere at the 23rd New York Asian Film Festival( #NYAFF2024) on 12 July, as it has been announced as opening film of the festival.

Leads #LeeHyeri and #ParkSewan will attend the opening.