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We speak to Lee Myung-se the visionary and dazzling director of Duelist and Nowhere To Hide, as the first of KCCUK’s The Year of the 12 Directors series… (more…)

It was the London Korean Film Festival press launch last Friday, and Kim Han-min was in town to introduce a special preview of his film Arrow, The Ultimate Weapon, which will open the event… (more…)

‘Willie Chan, Jackie Chan, Frankie Chan, Benny Chan… We’re all related. That Momma Chan was a very busy lady!’… (more…)

Ah, yes. Takashi Miike. I think I’ve heard of him. Hasn’t he got a reputation for making really, really, really, really violent movies?

Well, he has been known too. His mid-90s Triad Society trilogy, starting with Shinjuku Triad Society, set the scene for what was to come with rather excessive violence. Ichi The Killer, based on a manga, had to be cut by more than three minutes in order for the British Board of Film Classification to allow its release in the UK. In Hong Kong, they skimmed 15 minutes from its running time. At its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2001 they even gave the audience barf bags. (more…)

Oooooh er, missus! easternKicks gets all saucy with the director of the new 3D Sex And Zen: Extreme Ecstasy movie, Christopher Sun Lap-Key. But you’d almost think it was more of a ‘chick flick’ to hear him describe it… (more…)

With Detective Dee and the Mystery of Phantom Flame just out on UK Blu-ray and DVD, we chat to the New Wave Hong Kong director and massively influential film producer Tsui Hark… (more…)

As Takashi Miike’s 13 Assassins is released this Friday, we’re publishing this revealing interview with the prolific filmmaker himself…! (more…)

We talk to director John H. Lee about his transition from romantic drama to action films with the impressive war story 71 – Into The Fire… (more…)

In the last of our Ip Man 2 interviews, we chat again to bonafide kung fu film legend Sammo Hung about Ip Man’s success and his starring role in the sequel… (more…)

We talk to Jang Cheol-soo, once assistant director to Kim Ki-duk now making a real impact with his intelligent slasher film Bedevilled… (more…)

We chat to Takashi Shimizu, director of the Ju-On: The Grudge series and Shock Labyrinth 3D, about the process of making 3D movies, that cameo in Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl, and how keen he is to move away from directing in the horror genre – yes, even a romantic comedy…! (more…)

‘Maybe I should have called it something different!’ Im Sang-soo talks to us about The Housemaid, which caused a stir at this years Cannes… (more…)

A sweet wonderfully evocative animation about adolescence and growing up – and well deserving of a wider release next year… (more…)

We talk to director Kim Jee-woon (The Good, The Bad, The Weird) about his latest film, the controversial I Saw The Devil… (more…)

Director Lee Jeong-beom what’s to make films that unashamedly cater for blokes, and it looks like he’s going about it the right way with The Man From Nowhere… (more…)

Bong Joon-ho (The Host, Memories of Murder) spoke at a preview of Mother about the influences on his latest film, and how his own mother hasn’t talked to him about it since it’s release… (more…)