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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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“Cold War” – 2013 New York Asian Film Festival Review
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on July 9, 2013 | No CommentsIs “Cold War” in the same league as “Infernal Affairs,” “Ip Man” or “A Simple Life?” Or was it merely the best movie that Hong Kong had to offer last year? -
Johnnie To’s “Drug War” – 2013 New York Asian Film Festival Review
Angela K. HomPosted on July 4, 2013 | No CommentsProduced with the Mainland Chinese market and censors in mind, "Drug War" lacks the wild scenes that viewers of To's earlier work have come to expect. -
“Confession of Murder” – 2013 New York Asian Film Festival Review
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on July 2, 2013 | No Comments“Confession of Murder” jerks the viewer around as violently as some of the victims in the numerous car chase sequences that dot the film. -
Wang Jing’s “Feng Shui” – 2013 New York Asian Film Festival Review
Angela K. HomPosted on July 2, 2013 | No Comments"Feng Shui" examines family, class and gender in China in the 1990s, but it is ultimately a story about one hard-headed woman’s survival instinct. -
“Tales from the Dark Part 1” – 2013 New York Asian Film Festival Review
Angela K. HomPosted on July 1, 2013 | No CommentsSimon Yam, Lee Chi Ngai and Fruit Chan each direct one portion of "Tales from the Dark Part 1," an omnibus of three horror films with varying results. -
“The Animals” – 2013 New York Asian Film Festival Review
Angela K. HomPosted on July 1, 2013 | No CommentsSex, drugs and...techno? Such is life for the young elite of a Filipino town in director Gino M. Santos’ debut full-length film "The Animals." -
“City Hunter” – Jackie Chan Experience at Lincoln Center Review
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on June 16, 2013 | No Comments“City Hunter” is enormously entertaining silliness to the nth degree, yet chock-full of outrageous stunts performed by Chan in his prime. -
Jackie Chan charms New York, wins lifetime achievement award
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on June 15, 2013 | No CommentsWhen the recipient of the Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award is someone who literally created a new genre of Hong Kong cinema, he must be feted with his own separate retrospective and series of appearances. -
Searching for Hong Kong cinema in Macau
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on May 29, 2013 | No CommentsWhat is a mere 40 miles between two administrative regions in China? Plenty, as it turns out from a cinematic standpoint. -
“The Kirishima Thing” (桐島、部活やめるってよ) – 2013 HKIFF Review
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on May 5, 2013 | No CommentsYoshida Daihachi’s “The Kirishima Thing,” which won the Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year, is a teen drama that excels in its honesty.