Ning Hao’s NO MAN’S LAND is finally making its North American premiere, at the NYAFF
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Walter Reade Theater
144 West 65th St. between Broadway & Amsterdam Aves.
June 27 – July 10
212-875-5600
www.filmlinc.com
www.subwaycinema.com
Year after year, the New York Asian Film Festival screens the wildest, craziest, most wide-ranging collection of cinematic adventures from China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and Hong Kong, delighting fans with premieres from favorite directors, welcome dips into the past, celebrations of cult classics, and intriguing works from up-and-coming artists. The thirteenth annual NYAFF is no exception, consisting of forty-four films from across the spectrum, along with special tributes to Sandra Ng (Queen of Comedy Star Asia Award), Sol Kyung-gu (Star Asia Award), Park Joong-hoon (Celebrity Award), Fumi Nikaido (Screen International Rising Star Award), Lee Jung-jae (Korean Actor in Focus), and Jimmy Wong Yu (Lifetime Achievement Award). Also making appearances will be Alan Mak & Felix Chong, Moon So-ri, Anna Broinowski, Zishuo Ding, Fei Xing, Lee Sujin, Shin Yeon-shick, and Umin Boya. Looking for a sexy comedy? In 3D? Try Lee Kung-lok’s Naked Ambition. Want a peek into the filmmaking side of Dear Leader Kim Jong-il? There’s Anna Broinowski’s Aim High in Creation! In the mood for some Shaw Brothers? Then check out Roy Ward Baker and Change Cheh’s The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires. You can’t leave out Zombies, so Sabu has that covered with Miss Zombie.
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Hungry for a neo-spaghetti Eastern? Ning Hao is serving up No Man’s Land. How about the very first openhanded martial arts film? Jimmy Wang Yu’s 1970 The Chinese Boxer puts you in the middle of the action. You’ll also find new films by such familiar names as Kim Ki-duk, Hideo Nakata, and Kiyoshi Kurosawa and featuring such stars as Andy Lau, Chow Yun-fat, Simon Yam, Hitoshi Matsumoto, and Tadanobu Asano. The opening-night selection is Mak and Chong’s Overheard 3, the international premiere of the conclusion of the gangster trilogy. The centerpiece choice is Boya’s three-hour Kano, about a pioneer Taiwanese baseball team. In conjunction with the NYAFF, the always awesome Japan Cuts follows immediately, running July 10-24 at Japan Society, comprising more than two dozen contemporary films from Japan, only a few of which were also part of the NYAFF.