More titles have been added to this year’s New York Asian Film Festival (June 19 – July 6). We still have many more to come, but these should satisfy your hunger for the moment.
HARD REVENGE MILLY & HARD REVENGE MILLY 2: BLOODY BATTLE (2008, Japan)
What happens when there’s no more gun control? Hell is unleashed and the world sinks into savagery where only a hardcase like Hard Revenge Milly can survive. Her family was wiped out by heavily armed thugs and she’s left for dead, but is rebuilt with the works: shotgun leg, sword arm, gun-chuks and something…nasty in her chest. With insanely vicious special gore effects by Yoshihiro Nishimura (VAMPIRE GIRL VS FRANKENSTEIN GIRL) these two low budget sci-fi films are trimmed to the bone and hard as leather.
LALA PIPO (2009, Japan)
Written by Tetsuya Nakashima (MEMORIES OF MATSUKO, KAMIKAZE GIRLS) and shot in his candy-colored, hyper-surreal style, LALA PIPO is a crawl through the gutters of the porn industry in an desperate search for the hidden humanity of all the pimps, players, voyeurs, gangsters, hookers, A/V stars, and gangbang queens who make up the motley population of planet porno. Interweaving stories of the lost, the desperate, the horny and the repressed, LALA PIPO (a wordplay on “A lot of people,”) ultimately finds hope in the darkest – and stickiest – places.
QUICK GUN MURUGAN (2009, India)
How can you not love an Indian musical about a singing and dancing vegetarian cowboy out to stop the evil, non-veg, McDosa corporation from kidnapping all the mothers in India to use their love as the secret ingredient in their automated McDosa machines? A pop culture figure in India, this is the first feature film for Murugan whose taglines permeate the pop culture. It’s a silly, gorgeous flick in the vein of TEARS OF THE BLACK TIGER only with more more vegetarian food. As Murugan would say, “We are like this only!”
THE WARLORDS (2007, Hong Kong)
Jet Li, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro team up in this massive action movie about three blood brothers in the middle of the Taiping Revolution. As big, meaty and satisfying as a flame-roasted leg of wild boar, THE WARLORDS is the kind of movie you tear into with relish, wiping its bloody juices off your chin with the back of your hand as you sit on a throne made of the bones of your enemies.
When are we likely to see a schedule? If nothing else, what day is the Centerpiece Presentation going to be?
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