By Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY The Crazy Rich Asians trailer debuted on April 23, and it is setting up to not only potentially be the breakout comedy of the summer, […]
Pandas 3D: The closest you will get to a real panda in Seattle
By John Liu NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY It’s a documentary on pandas! I get excited just writing that. This movie wastes no time flooding the screen with panda cuteness with images […]
Isle of Dogs is a treat with bad aftertaste
By John Liu NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY What do you get when you combine producer and director Wes Anderson with cute stop-motion animated dogs? Isle of Dogs! I’ve had my eye […]
A transcendent family portrait in “Oxhide II”
By Andrew Hamlin NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY A man finishes his work for the day. His wife and his daughter join him. They make dinner. And that, objectively, is about all […]
Dream Empire — Deception, disillusion in modern China
By Andrew Hamlin NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY “Foreign faces wanted, little-to-no experience wanted. Apply any time. Big money!” Well, that’s not actually, factually, the advertisement which David Borenstein, an American citizen […]
“Big Fish & Begonia” puts China on the anime map
By Andrew Hamlin NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY The anime feature “Big Fish & Begonia,” directed by Xuan Liang and Chun Zhang, took 12 years to complete, and was systematically designed to […]
Ready Player One — Are you ready? Because I wasn’t!
By John Liu NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Children were not the only ones hunting for Easter eggs last weekend. Adults were also looking for Easter eggs in the Oasis. Ready Player […]
“Pacific Rim Uprising” — A darker side to giant monsters and robots
By Andrew Hamlin NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Guillermo del Toro’s “Pacific Rim,” from 2013, was the director’s love letter to two long-running Japanese traditions: “Kaiju Eiga,” stories featuring giant monsters, and […]
“A Brighter Summer Day” — Sad saga, secret Seattle connection
By Andrew Hamlin NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY It begins simply enough, with a concerned parent wondering to school faculty, why his son, a good student, did poorly on a test. It […]
“Legend of the Mountain” balances sacred, profane, and funny
By Andrew Hamlin NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Film director/writer King Hu (1932-1997) was born in Beijing, but achieved success working in Taiwan and Hong Kong. He shot several classic “wuxia” (martial […]
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