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NY Asian Film Fest Unleashes a Tidal Wave of Cinema

 Blood of Wolves

The massive New York Asian Film Festival returns with its slate of drama, horror, comedy, action and classics from East Asia. Running June 29 to July 15, at various theaters in NYC with more film than most cities can handle.

The festival opens with  the North American premiere of Tominaga Masanori’s Dynamite Graffiti, a drama based on the life and times of Japanese porn mag king Suei Akira, who cultivated future artists such as Moriyama Daido while navigating the world of Japanese smut. The Savage Seventeen set of films feature youth in rebellion with the movies Kim Ui-seok’s After My Death, Ogata Takaomi’s The Hungry Lion, and Naito Eisuke’s competition title Liverleaf. Sunny Chan’s Men on the Dragon, starring Francis Ng and Jennifer Yu, represents the proud tradition of Hong Kong cinema in which a group of blue-collar workers who reluctantly join their company’s dragon boat team. On Saturday, July 14 will be a special secret film screening. The film will not be revealed until showtime, but it is confirmed to be a North American premiere.

Seven films will compete for the festival’s Tiger Uncaged Award for Best Feature Film: Shiraishi Kazuya’s Blood of Wolves (Japan), Nam Ron’s Crossroads: One Two Jaga (Malaysia), Naito Eisuke’s Liverleaf (Japan), Dong Yue’s The Looming Storm (China), Sunny Chan’s Men on the Dragon (Hong Kong), Jeon Go-woon’s Microhabitat (South Korea), and Treb Monteras’s Respeto (Philippines). Six of the seven films are receiving their North American premieres at NYAFF, with one world premiere.

The festival closes with the world premiere of Erik Matti’s BuyBust from the Philippines starring Anne Curtis and MMA world champion Brandon Vera as narcs taking down a drug kingpin against insurmountable odds over one unrelenting rainy night.

For a complete list of films and more, go to: https://www.nyaff.org/

New York Asian Film Festival
June 29 - July 15, 2018

Various Locations

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