The New York Asian Film Festival is drawing to a close over the next three days, so go out with us Viking funeral style and let’s burn it all down. Bring a friend, and come check out one of these amazing movies before they’re gone forever.

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GALLANTS – the number one, can’t-miss movie of the festival, this is Hong Kong filmmaking at its finest. Four foot tall rock n’roll pioneer, Teddy Robin, gives a lesson in cool. Shaw Brothers icon, Chen Kuan-tai, is older and grayer but he’s still made of hero. And pug-ugly Bruce Leung shows you how a 60-year-old martial artist takes care of business. Bonus! Bruce Leung is in the house, and at the July 8 screening, Chinese rapper MC Jin will be on stage as well. He plays the bad guy in the film and rarely has a man with this many hip hop skills been willing to look so stupid onscreen. Last screening: Thursday, July 8 @ 6pm.

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DOMAN SEMAN – you won’t see another movie like this in your life: infuriating, ecstatic, transcendent, challenging, psychedelic, hilarious, stupid, hyper-intelligent and completely unique. With wall-to-wall rock, ska and thrash music from Kyoto’s best underground bands, this occult odyssey needs an explanation, and who better to provide it than director Go Shibata and actor Monchi who will be onstage after the show to give A’s to your Q’s. Last screening: Wednesday, July 7 @ 5:45pm.

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MERANTAU – yes, the screening slot is sucky, but exploitation movies don’t cut any closer to the bone than this Indonesian martial arts meat grinder that makes a bid to achieve ONG BAK-style immortality. Fast and furious, it comes with delicious trash garnish like evil Eurotrash villains, human trafficking subplots and broken glass being plucked out of faces and used as a weapon. Only screening: Thursday, July 8 @ 3:45pm. Skip work and come get your thrill centers adjusted.

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CASTAWAY ON THE MOON – don’t judge a book by its cover. We were nervous about this film as well but it is inarguably the best romance to hit cinema screens this summer, and it puts Hollywood’s hamhanded attempts at romance to shame. At the first screening, every single member of the sold-out house stayed for the Q&A with director Lee Hey-Jun, and the audience award scores were super-high. This is the ultimate date movie, and the only believable romance we’ve seen this year. Last screening: Wednesday, July 7 @ 8:45pm.

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We’re in the home stretch now, and some of Lincoln Center is still standing. Come on up and help us out. By the time we leave, this place should be a smoking crater that smells like awesome.

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