Over 50 Films at The New York Asian Film Festival 2016

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Published on Monday, 20 June 2016 18:33

Written by Brad Balfour & Renzo Adler

Tetsuo the Iron Man

The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Subway Cinema has brought back their cavalcade of Asian cinematic delights with the 2016 New York Asian Film Festival.  Running June 22 -  July 5 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center (70 Lincoln Center Plaza) and July 6 - 9 at the SVA Theatre (333 West 23rd Street), the NYAFF showcases 51 feature films, and in-person appearances by more than 30 international filmmakers and celebrity guests from Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. The fest features a staggering amount of variety, including new hits, animated adventures, cult classics, from gun toting gangsters to high school drama, NYAFF has a little something for everybody.

The Opening Night Gala will be the World Premiere of Kazuya Shiraishi’s wild crime epic Twisted Justice, based on Yoshiaki Inaba’s autobiography and starring Go Ayano as a corrupt police detective. The Centerpiece Gala is the North American Premiere of Ralston Jover's Hamog (Haze), an empowering, thrilling and impassioned tale of a gang of street kids, headlined by Teri Malvar. Closing Night is the International Premiere of Adam Tsuei’s The Tenants Downstairs a blackly comic, sexually explicit thriller featuring Simon Yam as a landlord spying on and manipulating the lives of his tenants.

The Hong Kong portion of the fest features Lazy Hazy Crazy(a coming-of-age drama about high-school girls who become involved in the sex trade), Weeds on Fire (a feel-good baseball movie set within Hong Kong’s public-housing system), and Triviṣa (a hard-boiled gangster omnibu).

The South Korean Cinema lineup includes a vibrant mix of thrillers (both supernatural and surreal) from first- and second-time directors that are daring twists on genre films (Alone, The Boys Who Cried Wolf, and The Priests), and insightful art-house dramas focusing on social issues from established directors (Jung Ji-woo’s Fourth Place about how much we demand from the next generation, and E J-yong’s The Bacchus Lady about the plight of the country’s abandoned elderly). In co-presentation with the Korean Movie Night New York Master Series, NYAFF will feature the two latest films by Lee Joon-ik, who will attend screenings of Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet (with producer and screenwriter Shin Yeon-shick) and The Throne.

Special screenings include a full day of films celebrating the indie spirit of Hong Kong cinema, a screening of Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo The Iron Man (think Eraserhead by way of Tokyo) and the lavishly animated Tekkonkinkreet from Michael Arias.

 NYAFF is one of the most jam packed festivals in NYC with a selection of films that can't be beat.

To learn more, go to:  http://www.filmlinc.org/festivals/new-york-asian-film-festival/

New York Asian Film Festival

June 22 - July 9

Film Society of Lincoln Center
70 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York, NY 10023

SVA Theatre
333 W 23rd St.
New York, NY 10011

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