New York Asian Film Festival

Favorite films

  • Days of Being Wild
  • Memories of Murder
  • Seven Samurai
  • The Blade

All
  • Hard Boiled

  • The Drifting Classroom

  • Wrath of Man

  • Romance Doll

    ★★★★★

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Hard Boiled

1992

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MOVIE MONDAYS:

“Give the guy a gun and he’s superman, Give him two and he’s God!”

John Woo’s spectacle of flashing steel and violence “Hard Boiled” has just celebrated its 30 year anniversary. It's the perfect time to give it a rewatch.

Chow Yun-fat plays a rogue cop pitted against Tony Leung Chiu-wai as a cold-blooded Triad hit man. But all may not be as it seems when the lines between good and evil start to blur together…

If you…

The Drifting Classroom

1987

MOVIE MONDAYS:

“It’s been concluded that this could be a time slip situation”.

Inspired by the classic horror manga of the same name and directed by the visionary Nobuhiko Obayashi, “The Drifting Classroom” (1987) does to disaster movies what “House” (1977) did for the haunted house film.

Middle school student Sho Takamatsu has just come back from living in the United States and he is feeling full of himself. Wearing a jacket that says “American Dream” on the back, he…