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Love Exposure – Movie Review – AMP 2009 Movie of the Year
Love Exposure ( or Ai no mukidashi ) is a very unique teen love/comedy flick that centres around 3 characters: Yu is the son of a recently broken-hearted priest obsessed with hearing confession; Koike is a cocaine dealing, overpriced religious artifacts…
Calling all Asian cinephiles: 2010 Asian Film Awards only weeks away!
It‘s safe to say that 2009 was a satisfying year for film in Asia. We gasped at superheroes, cried in angst over injustices, overthrew governments, solved personal truths and uncovered lies, all from the safety that the other side of…
The Best Asian Film of 2009 is…
We have been treated to an absolutely fantastic year in terms of Asian movies. Not only have we had splendid art house movies such as Like You Know It All and Love Exposure, but we’ve also had the weird and wonderful in Yatterman and of course the first attempt by Korea at taking on the vampire movie genre with the excellent Thirst.
Its also been a return to form for Hong Kong movies, such as Accident, City of Life and Death and Overheard. Its not just the usual movie producing nations which have been producing classics either, we’ve also seen incredbile movies from Taiwan, Thailand and the Philippines.
We have finally come down to the top 8 movies this year from an original list of over 30 movies from various Asian countries.
