13th New York Asian Film Festival
June 27-July 14, 2014 at the Walter Reade Theater, Japan Society, and Asia Society
co-presented with Film Society of Lincoln Center, in association with Japan Society/JAPAN CUTS
It’s lucky number 13! That’s right, this year is the 13th New York Asian Film Festival and that means that you’re not going to walk under a ladder, trip over a black cat, break a mirror, and wind up getting squashed by a falling piano the second you step outside. To stay safe, you’re going to double down and make sure you spend your summer inside a movie theater watching eyeball-exploding Asian films.
We’re making that as easy as possible for you this year, bringing over an avalanche of movies and stars. Whether it’s the award-winning, deeply divisive Eternal Zero from Japan that’ll have you on the edge of your seat over the fate of a kamikaze pilot in WWII, the dialogue-free, hair-raising castration drama from Korea, Moebius, an inside look at the workings of North Korean film industry, Aim High in Creation!, or an epic 3-hour baseball movie from Taiwan, Kano, we’ve got something for the whole family!
Join us for HONG KONG FOREVER!, a spotlight on the resurgence of local Cantonese films, including our very first film in 3D, 3D Naked Ambition, a heartwarming tribute to the adult-film industries in Hong Kong and Japan. Our special guest Sandra Ng has been working in Hong Kong film since 1984 and has won three Best Actress awards. She’ll be here with her brand-new film, Golden Chickensss, in which she plays a never-say-die hooker, as well as retrospective screenings of her classic movies Portland Street Blues (in which she plays a lesbian pimp) and the first Golden Chicken movie.
Our Korean Actor in Focus this year is Lee Jung-jae, who will be here with his new film, The Face Reader and retrospective screenings of New World and Il Mare. From Japan we’re bringing over Fumi Nikaido to receive the Screen International Rising Star Award. She’ll be familiar to NYAFF audiences for her indie crowdpleaser from a couple of years ago, Warped Forest, and her latest movie is Sion Sono’s skull busting ode to the yakuza and guerrilla filmmaking, Why Don’t You Play in Hell?
There will be more star power from Korea on display, as we will present Star Asia Award to Sol Kyung-gu (Cold Eyes, Public Enemy), The Celebrity Award to actor-turned-director Park Joonghoon (Top Star) and host actress Moon So-ri at our closing night presentation of Park Chan-kyung’s fantastic documentary about Korean shamanism, Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits.
There are lots more guests but you definitely don’t want to miss the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Award to the onearmed swordsman himself, Jimmy Wong Yu. We’ll be screening several of his classic movies, including The One-Armed Swordsman, the face-puncher that kicked off the martial-arts movie wave in 1967. And we’ll be presenting a special Run Run Shaw Retrospective, to pay tribute to the head of the iconic Shaw Brothers studio who passed away last year at 106. The retrospective focuses on the works of one of Shaw’s best, and most underrated, directors, Kuei Chih-hung, with his motorcycle-gang movie, Killers on Wheels, his first movie, The Delinquent, and his classic revisionist wuxia, Killer Constable.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. We’ll be screening 60 feature films, with over 15 guests, from Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Let’s face facts: it’s an unlucky year to go outside so we’ll be doing our part to keep you off the streets.
Sidebars
HONG KONG FOREVER!
KOREAN ACTOR IN FOCUS: LEE JUNG-JAE
SIR RUN RUN SHAW TRIBUTE
Films
3D NAKED AMBITION (2014)
ABERDEEN (2014)
AIM HIGH IN CREATION! (2013)
ALL-ROUND APPRAISER Q: THE EYES OF MONA LISA (2014)
APOLITICAL ROMANCE (2012)
AS THE LIGHT GOES OUT (2014)
AU REVOIR L’ETE (2013)
BEAUTIFUL NEW BAY AREA PROJECT (2013)
BLIND MASSAGE (2014)
THE CHINESE BOXER (1970)
COLD EYES (2013)
CONTROL (2013)
THE DELINQUENT (1973)
THE DEVIL’S PATH (2013)
THE ETERNAL ZERO (2013)
THE FACE READER (2013)
FIRESTORM 3D (2013)
FROM VEGAS TO MACAU (2014)
FUKU-CHAN OF FUKUFUKU FLATS (2014)
GOLDEN CHICKEN (2002)
GOLDEN CHICKENSSS (2014)
THE GREAT PASSAGE (2013)
HAN GONG-JU (2013)
HOPE (2013)
IL MARE (2000)
KANO (2014)
KILLER CONSTABLE, aka KARATE EXTERMINATORS (1980)
KILLERS ON WHEELS, aka MADBOYS IN HONG KONG (1976)
THE LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES (1974)
THE MAGIC BLADE (1976)
MANSHIN: TEN THOUSAND SPIRITS (2013)
MARUYAMA, THE MIDDLE SCHOOLER (2013)
MAY WE CHAT (2013)
MISS ZOMBIE (2013)
MOEBIUS (2013)
THE MOLE SONG: UNDERCOVER AGENT REIJI (2014)
MONSTERZ (2014)
MR. VAMPIRE (1985)
MY MAN (2014)
NEW WORLD (2013)
NO MAN’S LAND (2013)
ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN (1967)
OVERHEARD 3 (2014)
THE PINKIE (2014)
PORTLAND STREET BLUES (1998)
PUBLIC ENEMY (2002)
R100 (2013)
RIGOR MORTIS (2012)
ROUGH PLAY (2013)
SEEDING OF A GHOST (1983)
SEVENTH CODE (2013)
SILENT WITNESS (2013)
THE SNOW WHITE MURDER CASE (2014)
SOUL (2013)
THE TERROR LIVE (2013)
TOP STAR (2013)
UZUMASA LIMELIGHT (2014)
THE WHITE STORM (2013)
WHY DON’T YOU PLAY IN HELL? (2012)
WOOD JOB! (2014)
ZONE PRO SITE: THE MOVEABLE FEAST (2013)
Guests
Sandra Ng (GOLDEN CHICKEN, GOLDEN CHICKENSSS, PORTLAND STREET BLUES)
Sol Kyung-gu (COLD EYES, HOPE, PUBLIC ENEMY)
Lee Jung-jae (NEW WORLD, THE FACE READER, IL MARE)
Moon So-ri (MANSHIN: TEN THOUSAND SPIRITS)
Fumi Nikaido (MY MAN, AU REVOIR L’ÉTÉ, WHY DON’T YOU PLAY IN HELL?)
Zishuo Ding (SILENT WITNESS)
Chihiro Yamamoto (UZUMASA LIMELIGHT)
Alan Mak (OVERHEARD 3)
Felix Chong (OVERHEARD 3)
Park Joong-hoon (TOP STAR)
Anna Broinowski (AIM HIGH IN CREATION!)
Fei Xing (SILENT WITNESS)
Umin Boya (KANO)
Lee Su-jin (HAN GONG-JU)
Shin Yeon-shick (ROUGH PLAY)
Ken Ochiai (UZUMASA LIMELIGHT)
Links
13th New York Asian Film Festival
60 Films Set for 13th New York Asian Film Festival Opening June 27
