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Last week, we challenged APA readers to tell us who you thought should play Jeremy Lin in his inevitable biopic. Using your suggestions, here are some ideas you're all free to pitch to various visionary producers.
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Singafest brought a variety of popular 2010-2011 Asian films to Los Angeles audiences, including My Wedding and Other Secrets, The Girl With No Number, Buddha Mountain, Kidnapper, and Monga.
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Susan Morgan Cooper's heavy-handed docudrama, based on a memoir by Chinese writer Jian Ping, recalls Jian's childhood during the Cultural Revolution and illustrates its effect on her family -- including her 2nd generation Chinese American daughter.
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Through his portrayals of harrowing battles and universal camaraderie, director Jang Hun's call for humanity is clear: whether North Korean or South Korean, we are all the same people.
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Shimon Dotan's film about Chinese graduate students in America circa 1980 tackles issues of violence, assimilation, and identity politics -- with mixed results.
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Where others go for balance and sensitivity, Zhang Yimou's The Flowers of War goes for white man salvation, sex with specters, and, perhaps, a radical re-envisioning of what a Nanking Massacre narrative might be.
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Andy Lau and Deannie Yip give award-winning performances in Ann Hui's latest drama about a man and his aging childhood nanny.
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The Legend is Born is an underdog story which takes us back to Ip Man's youth, as Ip Man (Dennis To) learns lessons from an elder teacher played by the real-life Yip Man's son (Ip Chun).
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This year's LAFF coverage includes capsule reviews of Karate-Robo Zaborgar, Haunters, Somewhere Between, and The Yellow Sea.
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Tekken: Blood Vengeance's greatest strength lies in its appeal to hardcore Tekken fans, while still possessing the coherence and clarity to entertain the uninitiated.
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Trigun bursts into theaters nationwide after over a decade of silence and brings nothing new to the table. But that's quite all right.
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Trevor St. John -- who plays Cody in Patrick Wang's critically-acclaimed feature film -- chats with Asia Pacific Arts about In the Family's script, his unpredictable character, and the surprise success of this low-budget film.
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The writer, producer, and lead actress of Knots talks to Asia Pacific Arts about giving a voice to dynamic women, showcasing numerous sides of Hawaii, and starting conversations about the traditions (and hopefully, future evolutions) of marriage.
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A teaser to APA's "real" coverage of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival -- which continues in San Jose until March 18.
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Takayuki Yamada talks to APA about creating three different characters for the film, doing slow-motion sword fights with no preparation, and how his trousers tore apart while executing an especially intense dance scene.
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Yoshimasa Ishibashi talks about being influenced by his father's job as a kimono maker, the hair bow tie trend in the '70s, and his belief that everything begins with love (both in life and in his movies).
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Director Jang Hun talks about showing the Korean War from a different angle and being inspired by Kubrick's battle scenes in Paths of Glory.
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Director Kenny Meehan and producer Tyler MacNiven decided to document their friend's first Bollywood acting gig -- only to accidentally capture Omi Vaidya's dramatic rise from unknown Indian American actor to award-winning Bollywood star (who can get free Slurpees at 7-Elevens).
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Renowned Korean filmmaker Im Kwon-taek made his third visit to USC this month for a panel discussion about Korean cinema and his films.
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Chinese producer Zhang Jizhong talks to Asia Pacific Arts about his experience as a celebrity producer, his desire to share Chinese traditional culture with the world, and the challenges of working with Hollywood on his Monkey King adaptation.
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On the day he was awarded the Busan West Icon Award, Asia Pacific Arts had the opportunity to get reacquainted with director Bong and talk about his distaste for digital and 3D -- and why he keeps getting sucked into making short films.
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At the Shanghai Calling red carpet of the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, Asia Pacific Arts asks the real question on everybody's minds when they see the film's star in person. Or on TV, movies, commercials, and billboards. Anywhere, really.
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A film about young adults just out of college (made by young adults recently out of film school), Salad Days is a three-director-helmed experiment about Asian American kids goofing off, stalking each other online, and embarking on the eternal search for Wi-Fi.
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This year's Cannes Film Festival -- featuring new films from Hong Sang-soo, Im Sang-soo, Lou Ye, Abbas Kiarostami, Ashim Ahluwalia, Miike Takashi, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul -- takes place from May 16-27.
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The ambitious journey of Patrick Wang’s award-winning debut film involves countless individuals underestimating the project, the majority of them not giving it a chance, and a small but essential (and growing) percentage of supporters that insist it must live to breathe another day.
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Last week, we challenged APA readers to tell us who you thought should play Jeremy Lin in his inevitable biopic. Using your suggestions, here are some ideas you're all free to pitch to various visionary producers.
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Just in time for Valentine's Day, Asia Pacific Arts presents to you our favorite confessions of love in Asian cinema.
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This year's most memorable characters include dancing love gurus, wedding planners, aging caretakers, Kazak-speaking Koreans, men who see ghosts, and... Kim Ki-duk.
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APA counts down an impressive year of ambitious narrative films made by Asian American directors.
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Udaan, Milocrorze: A Love Story, Bengali Detective, and The Day He Arrives receive multiple mentions in APA's annual rundown of the best of Asian cinema.
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APA highlights some behind-the-scenes artists that have made their mark on pop culture this year.
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Feature articles and videos, interactive graphics, daily news summaries, and provocative voices.
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