2017 saw a bit of a resurgence in Asian serial killer films. While South Korea gave us a mixed bag of films of the genre like “V.I.P.”, “Memoir of a Murderer” and “The Chase”, Japan remade the South Korean thriller “Confession of Murder” into “Memoirs of a Murderer” with disastrous results. But it was Chinese director Dong Yue’s solid debut effort “The Looming Storm” that managed to stand heads and shoulders over the rest. The noir film featured in competition at the Tokyo Film Festival and won Dong Yue the Best New Director award at the Asian Film Awards.
The Looming Storm is screening at the 17th New York Asian Film Festival
It’s 1997 and while the Handover of Hong Kong is happening in the south, elsewhere the Chinese government is shutting down non-profiting state-run factories. It is in one such rain-drenched factory-populated small town that Yu Guowei, a self-important Security chief at a factory,...
The Looming Storm is screening at the 17th New York Asian Film Festival
It’s 1997 and while the Handover of Hong Kong is happening in the south, elsewhere the Chinese government is shutting down non-profiting state-run factories. It is in one such rain-drenched factory-populated small town that Yu Guowei, a self-important Security chief at a factory,...
- 7/11/2018
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
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