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Photos: Yousuke Haga – New York Fashion Week Fall 2025
24 March 2025 3:05 AM | No CommentsPhotos from the Yousuke Haga - Asia Fashion Collection runway show in New York.
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Photos: PCES – New York Fashion Week Fall 2025
21 March 2025 8:09 PM | No CommentsPhotos from the PCES - Asia Fashion Collection runway show in New York.
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Photos: BILL BILL – New York Fashion Week Fall 2025
16 February 2025 4:12 AM | No CommentsPhotos from the BILL BILL - Asia Fashion Collection runway show in New York.
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Photos: Meg Kim – New York Fashion Week Fall 2025
14 February 2025 4:35 AM | No CommentsPhotos from the Meg Kim - Asia Fashion Collection runway show in New York.
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Photos: LITTLE BEDROOM – New York Fashion Week Fall 2025
14 February 2025 4:14 AM | No CommentsPhotos from the LITTLE BEDROOM - Asia Fashion Collection runway show in New York.
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About Author: Rex Baylon
Posts by Rex Baylon
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“Ruined Heart – Another Love Story Between a Criminal & a Whore” – 2015 BiFan Film Review
Rex BaylonPosted on July 16, 2015 | No CommentsStarring Tadanobu Asano, "Ruined Heart – Another Love Story Between a Criminal & a Whore" demands an audience that is not afraid to be challenged. -
“Sanchu Uprising: Voices at Dawn” – 2015 Japan Cuts Review
Rex BaylonPosted on July 8, 2015 | No CommentsJuichiro Yamasaki’s sophomore feature, "Sanchu Uprising: Voices at Dawn," falters when it moves into more stylized and metaphoric visual territory. -
“This Country’s Sky” – 2015 Japan Cuts Film Review
Rex BaylonPosted on June 27, 2015 | No CommentsIn this World War II narrative told from the perspective of two women, Haruhiko Arai trusts that the audience will follow him wherever he goes. -
“It’s Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong” – 2015 NYAFF Review
Rex BaylonPosted on June 25, 2015 | No Comments"It’s Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong" is full of cliché tropes and based on the premise of a white guy teaching an Asian woman about her cultural roots. -
“Snow on the Blades” – 2015 Japan Cuts Film Review
Rex BaylonPosted on June 21, 2015 | No Comments"Snow on the Blades" (柘榴坂の仇討) is a jidai-geki film that has become the norm for far too long. Its gravest sin is its utter lack of dramatic conflict. -
“Round Trip Heart” – 2015 Japan Cuts Film Review
Rex BaylonPosted on June 19, 2015 | No CommentsYuki Tanada’s eighth feature is a quaint unassuming road trip picture that that barely makes an impression on the viewer after the end credits begin to roll. -
“Meeting Dr. Sun” – 2015 NYAFF Review
Rex BaylonPosted on June 18, 2015 | No Comments"Meeting Dr. Sun" is a subversive film whose acerbic wit illustrates how the 99% will rise up and easily steal back what was rightfully taken from them. -
“Belladonna of Sadness” – 2015 Japan Cuts Film Review
Rex BaylonPosted on June 14, 2015 | No CommentsThe third picture in the Animerama trilogy, "Belladonna of Sadness" (哀しみのベラドンナ, 1973) blew away the established aesthetic and thematic norms of the time. -
“Strayer’s Chronicle” – 2015 Japan Cuts Film Review
Rex BaylonPosted on June 13, 2015 | No Comments"Strayer's Chronicle" is an empty husk that has all the requisite parts of an entertaining comic book movie, but doesn’t even manage to be interesting. -
Film Review: Dante Lam’s “That Demon Within” (魔警)
Rex BaylonPosted on June 12, 2015 | No CommentsThe world that Dante Lam creates in "That Demon Within" is a bleak, oppressive one. Bad men are worse than we thought and good guys are tragic heroes.