This is a bare bones list of the Guests films and schedule for this years NYAFF. I chopped it down because there is simply too much info.
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Tickets will go on sale on June 9 for Film Society of Lincoln Center Members
and June 11 for general public, both at the box office and online. Discounts
are available for Film Society members.
Screenings will be held at the Film Society of Lincoln
Center's Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street, between Amsterdam and
Broadway), and SVA Theatre (333 West 23rd Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues).
The 2015 New York Asian Film Festival Guests include:
Ringo Lam (CITY ON FIRE, FULL ALERT)
Aaron Kwok (PORT OF CALL)
Shota Sometani (KABUKICHO LOVE HOTEL, TOKYO TRIBE)
Shim Jae-myung (CART, WAIKIKI BROTHERS)
Daihachi Yoshida(FUNUKE, SHOW SOME LOVE YOU LOSERS!, PALE
MOON)
Ryuichi Hiroki (KABUKICHO LOVE HOTEL)
Sabu (CHASUKE'S JOURNEY)
Yim Soon-rye (THE WHISTLEBLOWER, WAIKIKI BROTHERS)
Boo Ji-young (CART)
Philip Yung (PORT OF CALL)
Yee Chih-Yen (MEETING DR. SUN)
Lee Won-suk (THE ROYAL TAILOR)
Namewee (BANGLASIA)
Kulikar Sotho (THE LAST REEL)
Lau Ho-Leung (TWO THUMBS UP)
Emily Ting (IT’S ALREADY TOMORROW IN HONG KONG)
Jamie Chung (IT’S ALREADY TOMORROW IN HONG KONG)
Bryan Greenberg (IT’S ALREADY TOMORROW IN HONG KONG)
The 2015 New York Asian Film Festival lineup
OPENING NIGHT FILM
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
PORT OF CALL | 踏血尋梅
PHILIP YUNG, 2015 | CAST: AARON KWOK, MICHAEL NING, JESSIE
LI
HONG KONG | CANTONESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP |
121 MINUTES
A police detective (Aaron Kwok, in a career-defining role)
tracks down the murderer of a young prostitute in this brutal thriller directed
by Philip Yung and shot by master cinematographer Christopher Doyle.
Director Philip Yung and star Aaron Kwok will attend the
screening. Aaron Kwok will be presented with Star Asia Award on June 26.
Presented with the support of Hong Kong Economic and Trade
Office New York.
CENTERPIECE PRESENTATION
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
CHASUKE'S JOURNEY | 天の茶助
SABU, 2015 | CAST: KENICHI MATSUYAMA, ITO OHNO, REN OHSUGI,
YUSUKE ISEYA
JAPAN | JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP | 105
MINUTES
A celestial tea server descends to Okinawa in order to save
a young girl, falls in with a gang of losers, enjoys ramen, finds unwarranted
celebrity, and fights against predestination written by heavenly hacks who copy
Hollywood blockbusters.
Director Sabu will attend the screening.
Presented with the support of Japan Foundation New York.
CLOSING NIGHT FILM
To be announced
ABASHIRI PRISON | 網走番外地
TERUO ISHII, 1965 | CAST: KEN TAKAKURA, KOJI NANBARA,
TETSURO TAMBA, TORU ABE
JAPAN | JAPANESE WITH LIVE ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: 35MM
| 92 MINUTES
The first entry in Toei’s hugely successful Abashiri Prison
yakuza film series, directed by Teruo Ishii, established Ken Takakura’s
superstar status. If you want to understand Ken's enormous popularity, this is
the film that started it all. In many ways, this is the invention of the
Japanese man.
Print courtesy of Toei Co., Ltd.
Presented with the support of Japan Foundation New York.
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
BANGLASIA 孟加拉殺手
NAMEWEE, 2015 | CAST: NIRAB HOSSAIN, SAIFUL APEK, NAMEWEE,
ATIKAH SUHAIME
MALAYSIA | MALAY, ENGLISH, MANDARIN, AND HOKKIEN WITH
ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP | 91 MINUTES
From the director of festival fave foodie flick Nasi Lemak
2.0 comes this wild and crazy Western full of musical numbers and humor so
slaphappy it’ll leave your head spinning. It was banned in Malaysia for being
too political, so we’re proud to screen it.
Director/actor/singer Namewee will attend the screening.
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE OF THE NEW DIGITAL REMASTER
BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR AND HUMANITY | 仁義なき戦い
KINJI FUKASAKU, 1973 | CAST: BUNTA SUGAWARA, HIROKI
MATSUKATA, NOBUO KANEKO, KUNIE TANAKA, GORO IBUKI
JAPAN | JAPANESE WITH LIVE ENGLISH SUBTITLES | DCP | 99
MINUTES
Quite possibly the ultimate yakuza movie, Kinji Fukasaku’s
dark, gritty classic stars Bunta Sugawara (in the role that made his career) as
a former soldier who turns to organized crime and claws his way up the yakuza
underworld in postwar Hiroshima. .
Presented with the support of Japan Foundation New York.
Co-presented with Arrow Video.
BROTHERHOOD OF BLADES | 繡春刀
LU YANG, 2014 | CAST: CHANG CHEN, CECILIA LIU, WANG
QIANYUAN, ETHAN LI, NIE YUAN
CHINA | MANDARIN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DIGITAL
PROJECTION | 106 MINUTES
One of the best Chinese period action films in recent
memory, this overlooked blood-red gem is packed with superbly choreographed
fight scenes, riveting drama, and performances to match.
Film courtesy of Well Go USA Entertainment.
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
CAFÉ. WAITING. LOVE | 等一個人咖啡
CHIANG CHIN-LIN, 2014 | CAST: VIVIAN SUNG, BRUCE, MEGAN LAI,
MARCUS CHANG
TAIWAN | MANDARIN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP | 120
MINUTES
Three years after his record-breaking debut, You Are the
Apple of My Eye, writer-director Giddens Ko penned this irresistibly zany
romantic comedy, based on his book of the same name—but this time with Chiang
Chin-lin in the director’s seat.
Presented with the support of the Taipei Cultural Center of
TECO in New York.
NEW YORK PREMIERE
CART | 카트
BOO JI-YOUNG, 2014 | CAST: YUM JUNG-AH, MOON JUNG-HEE, KIM
YOUNG-AE, KIM KANG-WOO, HWANG JEONG-MIN, CHUN WOO-HEE
SOUTH KOREA | KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP |
103 MINUTES
In this pro-union flick, the 99% rise up after a bunch of
female employees at a chain retail giant (think Wal-Mart) get laid off via text
message. When they decide to go on strike, management calls in the thugs...
Director Boo Ji-young and producer Shim Jae-myung will
attend the screening.
Presented with the support of the Korean Cultural Service
New York.
Co-presented with The Korea Society.
CITY ON FIRE | 龍虎風雲
RINGO LAM, 1987 | CAST: CHOW YUN-FAT, DANNY LEE, SUEN YUET,
ROY CHEUNG
HONG KONG | CANTONESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: 35mm
| 100 MINUTES
Ringo Lam’s classic heist-gone-bad flick is the movie that
made Chow Yun-fat (playing an undercover cop) a star and provided Quentin
Tarantino with the basis for Reservoir Dogs. The film features heartbreak to
spare for the little people trying to eke out a living at the end of a gun.
Director Ringo Lam will attend the screening and will be
presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Print Courtesy of Academy Film Archive.
Presented with the support of Hong Kong Economic and Trade
Office New York.
COLD WAR | 寒戰
LONGMAN LEUNG, SUNNY LUK, 2012 | CAST: AARON KWOK, TONY
LEUNG KAR-FAI, ANDY LAU
HONG KONG | CANTONESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | DCP | 102
MINUTES
Winner of nine Hong Kong Film Awards, including “Best Film,”
Best Director,” “Best Screenplay,” “Best Actor,” and “Best New Performer,” COLD
WAR was Hong Kong’s 2012 box office sensation. This cop thriller stars Aaron
Kwok and Tony Leung Kar-Fai as two high-ranking officers whose rivalry leads to
an intense power struggle over an explosive rescue operation.
Presented with the support of Hong Kong Economic and Trade
Office New York.
COPS VS. THUGS | 県警対組織暴力
KINJI FUKASAKU, 1975 | CAST: BUNTA SUGAWARA, HIROKI
MATSUKATA, KEN TAKAKURA, MIKIO NARITA, NOBUO KANEKO
JAPAN | JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | 35MM | 100 MINUTES
Bunta Sugawara plays a cop so corrupt he’s basically a
member of the yakuza—delivering witnesses to his criminal buddies and looking
the other way when they murder rivals. But now a war is breaking out and this
bad lieutenant is going to have to choose sides.
Print courtesy of the Japan Foundation
Presented with the support of Japan Foundation New York.
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
EMPIRE OF LUST | 순수의시대
AHN SANG-HOON, 2015 | CAST: SHIN HA-KYUN, JANG HYUK, KANG
HANNA, KANG HA-NEUL
SOUTH KOREA | KOREAN WITH LIVE ENGLISH SUBTITLES | DCP | 113
MINUTES
A gorgeous period actioner set during the founding days of
Joseon Dynasty in the early 14th century, Empire of Lust follows three men who
engage in a power struggle within the palace walls, caught in the whirlwind of
love, lust, greed, betrayal, and revenge.
Presented with the support of Korean Cultural Service New
York.
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
A FOOL | 一個勺子
CHEN JIANBIN, 2014 | CAST: CHEN JIAN BIN, WANG XUEBING, JIN
SHIJIA
CHINA | MANDARIN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP | 105
MINUTES
Chen Jianbin’s directorial debut is a harsh noir about an
honest farmer’s efforts to help a young homeless man that instead set off a
chain of disasters, serving as a reminder of man’s inhumanity when faced with
greed.
China Lion Film Distribution
(www.chinalionentertainment.com) has acquired North American rights to A Fool.
The release date is yet to be announced. The film is expected to receive a
Greater China release in late 2015.
FULL ALERT | 高度戒備
RINGO LAM, 1997 | CAST: LAU CHING-WAN, FRANCIS NG, AMANDA
LEE, MONICA CHAN, JACK KAO
HONG KONG | CANTONESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: 35MM
| 98 MINUTES
Ringo Lam’s last great movie before his 12-year retirement
is a dark, glittering gem of a police procedural that works both as a heist
flick and as a tombstone for both pre-Handover Hong Kong and the action genre.
Presented with the support of Hong Kong Economic and Trade
Office New York.
U.S. PREMIERE
FULL STRIKE | 全力扣殺
DEREK KWOK & HENRI WONG, 2015 | CAST: JOSIE HO, EKIN
CHENG, RONALD CHENG, TSE KWAN-HO, ANDREW LAM, WILFRED LAU
HONG KONG/CHINA | CANTONESE, HAKKA, AND ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH
SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP | 108 MINUTES
Racquet sport becomes martial art when a down-and-out gang
of has-beens form a badminton team to win back their self-respect in this
hyperactive, totally surreal comedy from Derek Kwok, the co-director of Stephen
Chow’s Journey to the West.
Presented with the support of Hong Kong Economic and Trade
Office New York.
FUNUKE, SHOW SOME LOVE YOU LOSERS! | 腑抜けども、悲しみの愛を見せろ
DAIHACHI YOSHIDA, 2007 | CAST: ERIKA SATO, MASATOSHI NAGASE,
HIROMI NAGASAKU
JAPAN | JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: 35MM | 112
MINUTES
Seduction, persecution, prostitution, suicide, and more
greet the Wago family’s three siblings who return home for their parent’s
funeral after they’re killed while trying to save a kitten. Yoshida’s twisted,
smart, and deftly handled first film is as black as a comedy can get, yet
wrapped in a lighthearted exterior.
Director Daihachi Yoshida will attend the screening.
Presented with the support of Japan Foundation New York.
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
INSANITY | 暴瘋語
DAVID LEE, 2014 | CAST: LAU CHING-WAN, HUANG XIAOMING, ALEX
FONG, FIONA SIT, NINA PAW
HONG KONG | CANTONESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP |
99 MINUTES
In this psychological thriller produced by Derek Yee (The
Great Magician, One Night in Mongkok), a psychiatrist (Huang Xiaoming) is lured
to the dark side of the mind by his patient and convicted murderer (Lau
Ching-Wan).
Presented with the support of Hong Kong Economic and Trade
Office New York.
THE ISLE | 섬
KIM KI-DUK, 2000 | CAST: CHO JAE-HYUN, SUH JUNG, PARK
SEONG-HEE, JANG HANG-SEON
SOUTH KOREA | KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: 35MM |
85 MINUTES
Kim Ki-duk helped put Korean cinema on the map with this
art-house exploitation shocker about a cop on the run who winds up at a
floating hotel owned by a woman who might be insane, or just really in love.
You are not prepared.
Presented with the support of Korean Cultural Service New
York.
NEW YORK PREMIERE
IT’S ALREADY TOMORROW IN HONG KONG
EMILY TING, 2014 | CAST: JAMIE CHUNG, BRYAN GREENBERG,
RICHARD NG
HONG KONG/USA | ENGLISH | FORMAT: DCP | 78 MINUTES
This compelling walk-and-talk romance à laRichard Linklater,
centered on two Hong Kong expats who randomly cross paths one night, is as much
about the attraction between the leads as it is about the love of Hong Kong.
Director Emily Ting and actors Jamie Chung and Bryan
Greenberg will attend the screening.
Presented with the support of Hong Kong Economic and Trade
Office New York.
NEW YORK PREMIERE
KABUKICHO LOVE HOTEL | さよなら歌舞伎町
RYUICHI HIROKI, 2014 | CAST: SHOTA SOMETANI, ATSUKO MAEDA,
LEE EUN-WOO, ROY (SON IL-KWON)
JAPAN | JAPANESE AND KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT:
DCP | 136 MINUTES
Taking place over 24 hours in a Tokyo love hotel, this
steamy and poignant character-driven ensemble drama from director Ryuichi
Hiroki (Vibrator) looks at ordinary people as they experience life-changing
events.
Director Ryuichi Hiroki and star Shota Sometani will attend
the screening. Shota Sometani will be presented with the Screen International
Rising Star Award.
Presented with the support of Japan Foundation New York.
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
LA LA LA AT ROCK BOTTOM | 味園ユニバース
NOBUHIRO YAMASHITA, 2015 | CAST: SUBARU SHIBUTANI, FUMI
NIKAIDO, SARINA SUZUKI, KATSUMI KAWAHARA
JAPAN | JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP | 103
MINUTES
From Nobuhiro Yamashita (director of Linda Linda Linda and
Tamako in Moratorium) comes this romantic comedy about an amnesiac man who, as
the memory of his criminal past slowly returns, tries to find redemption and
love through rock music.
Presented with the support of Japan Foundation New York.
NEW YORK PREMIERE
THE LAST REEL |ដុំហ្វីលចុងកាាយ
KULIKAR SOTHO, 2014 | CAST: MA RYNET, ROUS MONY, DY SAVETH,
HUN SOPHY
CAMBODIA | KHMER WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP | 106
MINUTES
This gorgeous and engaging drama about a rebellious
Cambodian girl determined to shoot the missing ending of a 40-year-old movie
starring her mother is a meditation on Cambodia’s past and present, and the
power of art.
Director Kulikar Sotho will attend the screening.
LITTLE BIG MASTER | 五個小孩的校長
ADRIAN KWAN, 2015 | CAST: MIRIAM YEUNG, LOUIS KOO, WINNIE HO
HONG KONG/CHINA | CANTONESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT:
DCP | 112 MINUTES
Hong Kong’s runaway box-office hit is a powerful drama based
on the true story of a principal assigned to a failing rural kindergarten with
only five students: if one of them drops out, the school closes.
Presented with the support of Hong Kong Economic and Trade
Office New York.
THE MAN WHO STOLE THE SUN | 太陽を盗んだ男
KAZUHIKO HASEGAWA, 1979 | CAST: BUNTA SUGAWARA, KENJI SAWADA
JAPAN | JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: 35MM | 147
MINUTES
A ballsy satire about a high-school science teacher
(rock-star Kenji Sawada) who builds an atomic bomb at home and uses it to try
to get The Rolling Stones to play in Japan, all the while playing cat and mouse
with a police detective sporting a buzz cut (Bunta Sugawara).
Print courtesy of the Kawakita Memorial Film Institute.
Presented with the support of Japan Foundation New York.
U.S. PREMIERE
MEETING DR. SUN | 行動代號孫中山
YEE CHIH-YEN, 2014 | CAST: ZHAN HUAI-TING, MATTHEW WEI,
JOSEPH CHANG, BRYAN CHANG
TAIWAN | MANDARIN AND TAIWANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES |
FORMAT: DCP | 94 MINUTES
A deadpan high-school noir about two gangs of impoverished boys
competing to steal a statue of Dr. Sun Yat-sen (the founding father of the
Republic of China) so they can sell it as scrap metal. Schoolyard slapstick
becomes a call for Taiwan’s youth to wake up.
Director Yee Chih-Yen will attend the screening.
Presented with the support of the Taipei Cultural Center of
TECO in New York.
NEW YORK PREMIERE
MY LOVE, DON’T CROSS THAT RIVER | 님아, 그강을건너지마오
JIN MO-YOUNG, 2014 | CAST: JO BYEONG-MAN, KANG KYE-YEOL
KOREA | KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP | 85 MINUTES
In Jin Mo-young’s critically acclaimed documentary—which is
also the most successful independent film in Korean history—a couple who have
been married for 76 years face death with dignity and the strength of love.
Presented with the support of Korean Cultural Service New
York.
NIHON KYOKAKU-DEN (TALES OF CHIVALRY IN JAPAN) | 日本侠客伝
MASAHIRO MAKINO, 1964 | CAST: KEN TAKAKURA, KINNOSUKE
NAKAMURA, HIROKI MATSUKATA
JAPAN | JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | 35MM | 98 MINUTES
The first film in Toei’s immensely popular ninkyo film
series chronicles a bitter feud that brews and breaks out between two rival
yakuza clans. Honor is stained, blood is shed, hilarity does not ensue.
Print courtesy of Japan Foundation.
Presented with the support of Japan Foundation New York.
U.S. PREMIERE
PALE MOON | 紙の月
DAIHACHI YOSHIDA, 2014 CAST: RIE MIYAZAWA, MITSUYO KAKUTA,
SOSUKE IKEMATSU
JAPAN | JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP | 126
MINUTES
A housewife turns to a sophisticated embezzlement scheme to
support an affair with a college student in NYAFF director-in-focus Daihachi
Yoshida’s mesmerizing fantasy-drama.
Director Daihachi Yoshida will attend the screening.
Presented with the support of Japan Foundation New York.
NEW YORK PREMIERE
PARTNERS IN CRIME | 共犯
CHANG JUNG-CHI, 2014 | CAST: WU CHIEN-HO, TENG YU-KAI, CHENG
KAI-YUAN, YAO AI-NING
TAIWAN-HONG KONG | MANDARIN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT:
DCP | 88 MINUTES
Director Chang Jung-chi’s second feature and follow-up to
Touch of the Light (Taiwan’s foreign-language Oscar entry in 2012) is an
atmospheric and taut high-school mystery-drama centered on the apparent suicide
of a student.
Presented with the support of the Taipei Cultural Center of
TECO in New York.
NEW YORK PREMIERE
PERMANENT NOBARA | パーマネント野ばら
DAIHACHI YOSHIDA, 2010 | CAST: MIHO KANNO, EIKO KOIKE,
CHIZURU IKEWAKI, YOSUKE EGUCHI
JAPAN | JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: HDCAM | 99
MINUTES
A happy-go-wacky relationship film about a recently divorced
woman (Miho Kanno) who returns with her young daughter to her tiny hometown.
There, she reunites with her mother (Mari Natsuki) who runs the only hair salon
in town, Permanent Nobara, an extraordinary place that provides a signature
perm and a shame-free confessional for the local women to discuss their most
personal love and sex issues.
Presented with the support of Japan Foundation New York.
THE PRESIDENT'S LAST BANG | 그때그사람들
IM SANG-SOO, 2005 | CAST: HAN SUK-KYU, BAEK YOON-SIK, SONG
JAE-HO
SOUTH KOREA | KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: 35MM |
104 MINUTES
One of the most controversial Korean movies of all time, Im
Sang-soo’s black comedy tells the tale of the 1979 assassination of military
dictator President Park by the head of the Korean CIA. It’s all the more
relevant today because Park’s daughter is currently president of Korea.
Producer Shim Jae-myung will attend the screening.
Presented with the support of Korean Cultural Service New
York.
NEW YORK PREMIERE
RED AMNESIA |闖入者
WANG XIAOSHUAI, 2014 | CAST: LU ZHONG, SHI LIU, FENG YUANZHENG,
QIN HAO, AMANDA QIN
CHINA | MANDARIN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP | 115
MINUTES
Beijing Bicycle director Wang Xiaoshuai’s latest film is a
blood-curdling mystery about the harassment of an elderly widow, and her
haunting by a mysterious young boy who brings back ghosts of past choices,
moral compromises, and the long shadows of the Cultural Revolution.
NEW YORK PREMIERE
REVIVRE | 화장
IM KWON-TAEK, 2014 | CAST: AHN SUNG-KI, KIM QYU-RI, KIM
HO-JUNG
SOUTH KOREA | KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP |
93 MINUTES
Legendary 78-year-old Korean filmmaker Im Kwon-taek (Beyond
the Years, Chihwaseon: Painted Fire) delivers a powerful and vital film—his
102nd!—about the indignities of old age and the inferno of suppressed desire,
anchored by a commanding performance from veteran actor Ahn Sung-gi (Nowhere to
Hide) as a marketing director who finds himself attracted to a younger employee
while dutifully tending to his dying wife.
Presented with the support of Korean Cultural Service New
York.
U.S. PREMIERE
RIVER ROAD | 家在水草丰茂的地方
LI RUIJIN, 2014 | CAST: TANG LONG, GUO SONGTAO
CHINA | YUGUR WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP | 103
MINUTES
Bartel and Adikeer, two Yugur ethnic minority brothers, set
out with their camel across the deserts of northwestern China in search of
their parents in this masterfully lensed nomadic road movie.
WORLD PREMIERE
ROBBERY | 老笠
FIRE LEE, 2015 | CAST: DEREK TSANG, J. AIRE, LAM SUET,
STANLEY FUNG
HONG KONG | CANTONESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP |
90 MINUTES
An absurdist blood-soaked Grand Guignol with attitude to
burn, Fire Lee’s indie black comedy about an overnight shift in a convenience
store starts with a simple robbery, then moves on to mass murder, terrorist
bombings, police shoot-outs, and even the afterlife.
Presented with the support of Hong Kong Economic and Trade
Office New York.
NEW YORK PREMIERE (U.S. CONTINENTAL PREMIERE)
THE ROYAL TAILOR | 상의원
LEE WON-SUK, 2014 | CAST: HAN SUK-KYU, KO SOO, PARK
SHIN-HYE, YOO YEON-SEOK
SOUTH KOREA | KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP |
127 MINUTES
An eye-popping historical comedy about the king’s tailor
(played by Korean icon Han Suk-kyu) encountering a younger rival. It’s a
stylish fashion showdown as the queen favors the younger needle-slinger, while
the king sticks with his more stately (and stodgy) designer.
Director Lee Won-suk will attend the screening.
Presented with the support of Korean Cultural Service New
York.
Co-presented with The Korea Society.
NEW YORK PREMIERE
RUINED HEART: ANOTHER LOVE STORY BETWEEN A CRIMINAL AND A
WHORE
KHAVN (aka KHAVN DE LA CRUZ), 2014 | CAST: TADANOBU ASANO,
NATHALIA ACEVEDO, ELENA KAZAN
THE PHILIPPINES/GERMANY | FORMAT: DCP | 73 MINUTES
Neon-smeared pop poetry materializes on screen in this
(almost) dialogue-free gangland art flick shot in the slums of Manila and
starring Tadanobu Asano (Ichi the Killer) and shot by longtime Wong Kar Wai
cinematographer Christopher Doyle.
EAST COAST PREMIERE
SECOND CHANCE | 逆轉勝
KUNG WEN-YEN, 2014 | CAST: WEN SHANG-YI, P.J. HUANG, ANGEL
YAO, JASON WANG
TAIWAN | MANDARIN AND TAIWANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES |
FORMAT: DCP | 105 MINUTES
Like Rocky except for billiards instead of boxing, and if
Rocky Balboa was a Type-A, overachieving schoolgirl, this flick features a
who’s who of billiard champs as it becomes a fist-pumping sports movie.
Presented with the support of the Taipei Cultural Center of
TECO in New York.
U.S. PREMIERE
SOCIALPHOBIA | 소셜포비아
HONG SEOK-JAE, 2014 | CAST: BYUN YO-HAN, LEE JOO-SEUNG
SOUTH KOREA | KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP |
100 MINUTES
Four friends track down a cyberbully only to find that she’s
hung herself. But two of them are convinced it’s murder, and the film becomes a
grungy, realistic murder mystery set in the twitchy world of social media.
Presented with the support of Korean Cultural Service New
York.
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
SOLOMON’S PERJURY PART 1: SUSPICION | ソロモンの偽証 前編
IZURU NARUSHIMA, 2015 | CAST:RYOKO FUJINO, ANNA ISHII,
TOMITA MIU, SHIMIZU HIROYA
JAPAN | JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP | 121
MINUTES
In the first of a twisty two-parter, high-school students
find the dead body of one of their classmates in the snow. Not convinced by the
conclusion that he killed himself, they begin an investigation that eventually
leads them to conducting a mock trial at school.
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
SOLOMON'S PERJURY PART 2: JUDGEMENT | ソロモンの偽証 後編
IZURU NARUSHIMA, 2015 | CAST: RYOKO FUJINO, ANNA ISHII, MIU
TOMITA, HIROYA SHIMIZU
JAPAN | JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP | 149
MINUTES
Wrapping up the multitude of mysteries from the first part,
the second film focuses on the trial, where both shocking and subtle
revelations send irrevocable tremors through the high school and the adults
surrounding the case.
THE TAKING OF TIGER MOUNTAIN 3D | 智取威虎山
TSUI HARK, 2014 | CAST: ZHANG HANYU, TONY LEUNG KA-FAI, LIN
GENGXIN, YU NAN, TONG LIYA, HAN GENG, CHEN XIAO
CHINA | MANDARIN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP | 141
MINUTES
Tsui Hark (Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom
Flame) is back doing what he does best: delivering a popcorn thrillride. This
adaptation of Qu Bo’s adventure novel, set in the late 1940s, mixes elements of
spy movies, Chinese civil war sagas, and Mainland People’s Liberation Army
actioners into a 3D blockbuster spectacle that was custom-made for the big
screen.
Film courtesy of Well Go USA Entertainment.
Presented with the support of Hong Kong Economic and Trade
Office New York.
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
TAKSU | 欲動
KIKI SUGINO, 2014 | CAST: YOKO MITSUYA, TAKUMI SAITOH, KIKI
SUGINO, TOM MES
JAPAN | JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP | 97
MINUTES
Two couples find their needs and desires driving them
further apart in this intensely erotic and melancholy drama set in Bali.
Presented with the support of Japan Foundation New York.
NEW YORK PREMIERE
TOKYO TRIBE
SION SONO, 2014 | CAST: RYOHEI SUZUKI, DAIS YOUNG, NANA
SEINO, SHUNSUKE DAITO, TAKUYA ISHIDA, YUI ICHIKAWA, MIKA KANO, SHOTA SOMETANI,
SHOKO NAKAGAWA, RYUTA SATO
JAPAN | JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP | 116
MINUTES
Told almost entirely in hip-hop, Sion Sono’s berserk rap
musical about warring gangs in Tokyo is full of tanks, B-boy battles, and so
many baroque visual flourishes that the entire movie feels like Versailles
stabbing you in both eyes.
Screen International Rising Star Shota Sometani will attend
the screening.
Presented with the support of Japan Foundation New York.
Tokyo Tribe will be released in the U.S. by XLrator Media in
the Fall of 2015.
NEW YORK PREMIERE (INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL PREMIERE)
TWENTY | 스물
LEE BYEONG-HEON, 2015 | CAST: KIM WOO-BIN, LEE JOON-HO, KANG
HA-NEUL
KOREA | KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP | 115
MINUTES
Three friends enter their twenties with sex on the mind,
easy access to soju, and absolutely no clue how to navigate college, money, or
women… or really anything else in the world. A painfully hilarious reminder
about how awkward the transition into adulthood can be.
Presented with the support of Korean Cultural Service New
York.
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
TWO THUMBS UP | 衝鋒車
LAU HO-LEUNG, 2015 | CAST: FRANCIS NG, SIMON YAM, PATRICK
TAM, MARK CHENG
HONG KONG | CANTONESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP |
102 MINUTES
Old-school Hong Kong action-comedy at its finest, Two Thumbs
Up stars Simon Yam and Francis Ng as ex-cons who disguise themselves as
policemen to pull a heist. But it turns out they kind of like being cops...
Director Lau Ho-leung will attend the screening.
Presented with the support of Hong Kong Economic and Trade
Office New York.
NORTH AMERICAN FESTIVAL PREMIERE
VENGEANCE OF AN ASSASSIN | เร็วทะลุเร็ว
PANNA RITTIKRAI, 2014 | CAST: CHUPONG CHANGPRUNG, NATHAWUT
BOONRUBSU, PING LUMPRAPLOENG, NISACHON TUAMSUNGNOEN
THAILAND | THAI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | DIGITAL PROJECTION
| 99 MINUTES
The final film from action legend Panna Rittikrai (Ong-Bak
films)—the kinetic master of mayhem—pulls out all the stops to deliver a
rough-and-ready action flick sporting everything from badass games of soccer to
gun fu.
Film courtesy of Well Go USA Entertainment.
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
VIOLATOR
DODO DAYAO, 2014 | CAST: VICTOR NERI, ANTHONY FALCON, R.K.
BAGATSING
THE PHILIPPINES | TAGALOG WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT:
DCP | 115 MINUTES
The sole horror movie in this year’s lineup, Violator sees
five men become trapped at a police station during a typhoon with a young man
who claims to be Satan. A barebones indie that achieves a kind of monumental
evil majesty as it progresses.
WAIKIKI BROTHERS | 와이키키브라더스
YIM SOON-RYE, 2001 | CAST: LEE EOL, PARK WON-SANG, HWANG
JUN-MIN
SOUTH KOREA | KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | 35MM | 109
MINUTES
In this modern Korean classic, a failed cover band returns
to the lead guitarist’s hometown to try to get a fresh start, but the past,
women, booze, and drugs threaten to break them apart.
Director Yim Soon-rye and producer Shim Jae-Myung will
attend the screening.
Presented with the support of Korean Cultural Service New
York.
Co-presented with The Korea Society.
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
THE WHISTLEBLOWER | 제보자
YIM SOON-RYE, 2014
SOUTH KOREA | KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP |
113 MINUTES
The All The President’s Men of bioresearch, Yim Soon-Rye
(one of Korea’s few female directors) turns in a sharply suspenseful powerhouse
thriller based on the true story of one of the biggest scientific frauds of the
21st century.
Director Yim Soon-rye will attend the screening.
Presented with the support of Korean Cultural Service New
York.
Co-presented with The Korea Society.
WOLVES, PIGS AND MEN | 狼と豚と人間
KINJI FUKASAKU, 1964 | CAST: KEN TAKAKURA, SANAE NAKAHARA,
SHINJIRO EBARA, KINYA KITAOJI
JAPAN | JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: 35MM | 95
MINUTES
Kinji Fukasaku’s first yakuza masterpiece is an angry tale
of three brothers who walk and work the mean streets of a postwar Tokyo slum
and buy themselves a world of trouble over a bag of stolen cash.
Print courtesy of Japan Foundation.
Presented with the support of Japan Foundation New York.
NYAFF 2015 Full Schedule
Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater
Fri, June 26
6:00pm A FOOL (105 min)
8:30pm PORT OF CALL (120 min) + guest appearance (Star Asia
Award presentation)
Sat, June 27
12:30pm COLD WAR (102 min)
3:00pm PORT OF CALL (120 min) + guest appearance
6:00pm EMPIRE OF LUST (113 min)
8:30pm CITY ON FIRE (100 min) + guest appearance (Lifetime
Achievement Award presentation)
Sun, June 28
2:00pm FULL ALERT (98 min)
4:30pm INSANITY (99 min)
6:45pm IT’S ALREADY TOMORROW IN HONG KONG + guest appearance
9:15pm MY LOVE, DON’T CROSS THAT RIVER (85 min)
Mon, June 29
6:00pm FUNUKE, SHOW SOME LOVE YOU LOSERS! (112 min) + guest
appearance
8:30pm PALE MOON (126 min) + guest appearance
Tue, June 30
6:00pm LITTLE BIG MASTER (112 min)
8:30pm MEETING DR. SUN (94 min) + guest appearance
Wed, July 1
6:00pm THE MAN WHO STOLE THE SUN (147 min)
9:00pm REVIVRE (93 min)
Thu, July 2
6:00pm TAKSU (97 min)
8:00pm LA LA LA AT ROCK BOTTOM (103 min)
10:15pm RUINED HEART (73 min)
Fri, July 3
12:30pm RED AMNESIA (115 min)
2:50pm RIVER ROAD (103 min)
5:00pm ABASHIRI PRISON (92 min)
7:00pm BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR AND HUMANITY (99 min)
9:00pm COPS VS. THUGS (100 min)
Sat, July 4
12:00pm FULL STRIKE (108 min)
2:15pm PERMANENT NOBARA (99 min)
4:15pm SOCIALPHOBIA (100 min)
6:30pm KABUKICHO LOVE HOTEL (136 min) + guest appearance
(Screen International Rising Star Award presentation)
10:00pm TOKYO TRIBE (116 min) + guest appearance
Sun, July 5
1:00pm ROBBERY (90 min)
3:00pm SOLOMON’S PERJURY PART 1: SUSPICION (121 min)
5:30pm TWO THUMBS UP (102 min) + guest appearance
8:15pm THE LAST REEL (106 min) + guest appearance
Mon, July 6
6:30pm THE PRESIDENT’S LAST BANG (104 min) + guest
appearance
8:45pm CART (103 min) + guest appearance
Tue, July 7
6:30pm WAIKIKI BROTHERS (109 min) + guest appearance
8:45pm WHISTLEBLOWER (113 min) + guest appearance
Wed, July 8
5:30pm WOLVES, PIGS AND MEN (95 min)
7:30pm CHASUKE’S JOURNEY (105 min) + guest appearance
10:00pm VIOLATOR (115 min)
SVA Theatre’s Beatrice and Silas Theatres
Thu, July 9
Beatrice Theatre
5:30pm NIHON KYOKAKU-DEN (98 min)
7:30pm CAFÉ. WAITING. LOVE (120 min)
10:00pm THE ISLE (102 min)
Silas Theatre
6:00pm TWENTY (115 min)
8:30pm THE ROYAL TAILOR (127 min) + guest appearance
Fri, July 10
Beatrice Theatre
6:00pm VENGEANCE OF AN ASSASSIN (99 min)
8:00pm BANGLASIA (91 min) + guest appearance
Silas Theatre
6:00pm SOLOMON’S PERJURY PART 2: JUDGEMENT (149 min)
9:00pm TAKING OF THE TIGER MOUNTAIN 3D (141 min)
Sat, July 11
Beatrice Theatre
1:00pm SECOND CHANCE (105 min)
3:15pm PARTNERS IN CRIME (88 min)
5:45pm BROTHERHOOD OF BLADES (106 min)
8:15pm RUINED HEART (73 min)
Silas Theatre
12:40pm to be announced
4:30pm to be announced
6:45pm TOKYO TRIBE (116 min)
9:00pm Closing Night Film (to be announced)
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