Busan reviews – Page 2
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Reviews‘The Movie Emperor’: Busan
Director Ning Hao and star Andy Lau re-team for this savvy film industry satire
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Reviews‘Bride Kidnapping’: Busan Review
Jiseok co-winner at Busan is a dour but powerful drama from Kyrgyzstan.
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Reviews‘Paradise’: Busan Review
Effective Sri Lanka-set tourism drama shared the top prize in Busan’s Jiseok competition
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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘Heritage’: Busan Review
Three lives intersect in a welfare office in Korea in Lee Jong-su’s droll, dry debut
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Reviews‘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
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Reviews‘The Wrestler’: Busan Review
An underdog wrestler attempts to become a champion in the Bangladeshi sport of Boli khela
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Reviews‘The Stranger’: Busan Review
A young Bangladeshi boy struggles to connect with his largely absent father – and his true self – in this coming-of-age drama
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Reviews‘September 1923’: Busan Review
Powerful dramatisation of a massacre that followed an earthquake in Japan a century ago
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Reviews‘24 Hours With Gaspar’: Busan Review
A detective with 24 hours to live attempts to close a longstanding case in this dystopian actioner from Indonesia
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Reviews‘Moro’: Busan Review
Brillante Ma Mendoza explores the enduring conflict in Mindanao through the tale of two warring brothers
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Reviews‘Borrowed Time’: Busan Review
The lines between past and present blur as a Chinese woman searches for her father in Hong Kong
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Reviews‘Oasis Of Now’: Busan Review
An undocumented Vietnamese woman lives life on the margins in Malaysia in Chia Chee Sum’s debut
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Reviews‘Kyrie’: Busan Review
J-pop stars AiNA THE END and Matsumura Hokuto star in this music-infused Japanese drama from Shunji Iwai
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Reviews‘Solids By The Seashore’: Busan Review
Romance blossoms in a south Thailand coastal town affected by climate change in this tender if unfortunately-named debut
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Reviews‘Because I Hate Korea’: Busan Review
Busan’s opening film follows a disaffected South Korean woman who flees Seoul for New Zealand
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Reviews‘The Monk And The Gun’: Busan Review
’A Yak In The Classroom’ director takes notes from Robert Altman for this Bhutan-set political satire