Comedy

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    Hit N Fun

    An ensemble cast deal with life, love and Muay Thai in this Hong Kong Lunar New Year comedy…

    3 stars
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    Tracing Shadow

    Francis Ng and Marco Mak’s 2009 genre throwback is a mixed bag of wuxia wackiness…

    3 stars
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    Nomad

    With great characters and fantastic cinematography, this classic Hong Kong film flows from one energetic scene to the next…

    5 stars
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    Doctor Vampire

    Doctor, there is a vampire in the hospital!?…

    3.5 stars
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    The Wild, Wild Rose

    The matchless Grace Chang stars in one of the greatest films of Hong Kong cinema…

    5 stars
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    Dasepo Naughty Girls

    A surreal 2006 Korean musical comedy following the strange lives of a group of high school students…

    4 stars
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    Lets Go Karaoke

    A yakuza movie for kids?!? And not bad for one at all, while still throwing extra treats to yakuza and music fans…

    3.5 stars
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    Don’t Cry, Butterfly

    Dương Diệu Linh’s scathing satire on gender conventions in Vietnam…

    4 stars
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    Million Dollar Crocodile

    A giant crocodile goes on a strictly mid-level rampage in this early Chinese creature feature…

    3 stars
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    Cha-Cha

    The rom-com sways far off into LOCO territory 3 steps at a time with a neo-Nipponese twist…

    4 stars
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    Penalty Loop

    A man wanting simple revenge, stuck in a time loop where he must repeat the mundane monotony of murder…

    3.5 stars
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    Oppai Volleyball

    A school teacher promises to show her sex-obsessed students her breasts if they manage to win a volleyball game…

    3 stars
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    Bounty Hunter Trilogy: Killer’s Mission

    A novel, genre-hopping collaboration between who’d soon be J-cinema’s most internationally notorious figures…

    3.5 stars
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    Qualia

    Fowl play on the farm in Ryo Ushimaru’s darkly comic feature debut…

    4 stars
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    Lan Kwai Fong 3

    The third and final entry in the Lan Kwai Fong series offers yet more trashy bed-hopping and soap opera shenanigans…

    3 stars
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    Dislocation

    Scientist Zhao Shuxin creates an intelligent clone to attend meetings, resulting in quirky situations…

    4 stars
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    I Was Born, But…

    An important cinematic historical document that can still be enjoyed now…

    4.5 stars