Busan reviews – Page 2
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‘The Height Of The Coconut Trees’: Busan Review
Cinematographer Du Jie makes his directorial debut with this enigmatic Japanese ghost story
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‘As The River Goes By’: Busan Review
Debut from China tracks the ripples of the past into present-day life in a small town
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‘Motherland’: Busan Review
Brillante Ma Mendoza’s police thriller is inspired by a 2015 bloodbath in Mindanao
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‘To Kill A Mongolian Horse’: Busan Review
An Inner Mongolian herdsmen fights to keep hold of his heritage in this dramatisation of his life
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‘Regretfully At Dawn’: Busan Review
An elderly Thai ex-soldier helps his granddaughter towards a brighter future in Sivaroj Kongsakul’s contemplative drama
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‘Village Rockstars 2’: Busan Review
Rima Das returns to rural Assam to follow-up her 2017 docu-drama
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‘Tale Of The Land’: Busan Review
The ongoing battle for Indigenous lands in Borneo informs this slow-burn debut
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‘MA - Cry Of Silence’: Busan Review
A young textile worker in Myanmar struggles to find her voice against a backdrop of political unrest
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‘Kaneko’s Commissary’: Busan Review
Super Eight’s Ryuhei Maruyama stars in this ‘plodding’ prison drama from Japan
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‘Travesty’: Busan Review
A city cop finds himself cast adrift in this pointedly political Mongolian hostage thriller
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‘Uprising’: Busan Review
Busan opens with a sweeping Netflix period actioner co-written by Park Chan-wook
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‘Afternoons Of Solitude’: San Sebastian Review
Albert Serra’s immersive, unflinching documentary follows Peruvian bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey
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‘The Movie Emperor’: Busan
Director Ning Hao and star Andy Lau re-team for this savvy film industry satire
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‘Bride Kidnapping’: Busan Review
Jiseok co-winner at Busan is a dour but powerful drama from Kyrgyzstan.
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‘Paradise’: Busan Review
Effective Sri Lanka-set tourism drama shared the top prize in Busan’s Jiseok competition
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‘House Of The Seasons’: Busan Review
A family drama set around a tofu factory is an engaging addition to the ‘Korean Cinema Today’ strand at Busan
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‘After The Fever’: Busan Review
A young Japanese couple approach love from very different angles in Akira Yamamoto’s vacant drama
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‘The Spark’: Busan Review
A filmmaker is out to wreak bloody revenge in this hybrid docu/drama set in the sacred Hindu city of Varanasi
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‘Heritage’: Busan Review
Three lives intersect in a welfare office in Korea in Lee Jong-su’s droll, dry debut
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‘That Summer’s Lie’: Busan Review
The events of one South Korean summer may not be all they appear in this twisting breakout Busan-set debut