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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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Film Archive
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“Red Obsession” – 2013 Melbourne International Film Festival Review
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on August 6, 2013 | No CommentsAn ode to the wine of Bordeaux gradually becomes a true tale of consumer greed, market chaos and a turning point in the brewing industry in "Red Obsession." -
“Documentary of AKB48: Show Must Go On” – 2013 Japan Cuts Review
Angela K. HomPosted on August 6, 2013 | No CommentsThe documentary is an agonizingly detailed look at a year’s worth of events for the all-girl supergroup. -
E.L. Katz’s “Cheap Thrills” – 2013 Fantasia International Film Festival Review
Christopher BournePosted on August 4, 2013 | No Comments"Cheap Thrills," E. L. Katz’s queasily comic, often jaw-droppingly brutal debut feature, has a title that is both perfectly descriptive and cruelly ironic. -
“Dragon Girls” – 2013 Melbourne International Film Festival Review
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on August 4, 2013 | No Comments"Dragon Girls" shows a backbreaking perspective of martial arts tradition and its quizzical place in China as the rest of the country modernizes around it. -
DPRK Film: “Centre Forward” – 2013 MIFF Review
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on July 28, 2013 | No Comments"Centre Forward," an entertaining North Korean film about football, screens as part of a DPRK showcase at the 2013 Melbourne International Film Festival. -
Junichi Inoue’s “A Woman and War” – 2013 Japan Cuts Film Review
Angela K. HomPosted on July 22, 2013 | No CommentsBrutally frank in its portrayal of rape, “A Woman and War” follows three people as they attempt to deal with the consequences of World War II on Japan. -
Hideki Takeuchi’s “Thermae Romae” – 2013 Japan Cuts Film Review
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on July 14, 2013 | No Comments"Thermae Romae," based on a manga that sees an insecure man from ancient Rome revive his sagging career as a public bath designer, carries a lot of heart. -
Mika Ninagawa’s “Helter Skelter” – 2013 Japan Cuts Film Review
Angela K. HomPosted on July 13, 2013 | No CommentsAfter a five-year hiatus, Erika Sawajiri returns to a lead role that perhaps reflects her own personal troubles with fame in "Helter Skelter." -
Hideo Nakata’s “The Complex” – 2013 NY Asian Film Festival Review
Angela K. HomPosted on July 12, 2013 | No Comments"The Ring" director Hideo Nakata takes familiar elements from his J-horror films and throws them back into the mix in “The Complex.” However, the end product is neither here nor there. -
“Pridyider” (“The Fridge”) – 2013 New York Asian Film Festival Review
Angela K. HomPosted on July 9, 2013 | No CommentsIn “Pridyider” (“The Fridge”), a blood-thirsty appliance surpasses the human actors in interest and personality.