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A 2009 Japanese take on the usual Outbreak formula sees a deadly virus threatening the country and the staff of an overwhelmed hospital: PANDEMIC | This week's #cineXtremes entry!

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February 12, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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Flora Lau's LUZ 花明渡 kicks off @focushkfilm.bsky.social's Chinese New Year screenings at @thegardencinema.bsky.social. A while back we spoke to the director about her debut BENDS

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An interview with Flora Lau (Bends) | easternkicks.com
We chat to Flora Lau about her career so far, and her debut feature film Bends… A few months ago, Flora Lau was the toast of the Cannes Film Festival. Her feature debut Bends played in the Un Certain ...
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February 6, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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Joko Anwar’s 2024 shocker follows a woman obsessed with the religious fear of eternal torment after death: GRAVE TORTURE ★★★★ | This week's #cineXtremes entry streaming now on @netflix.com!

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February 5, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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The Garden Cinema celebrates LGBT+ History Month - A curated season of queer classics includes Korean films co-presented by Queer East starts today! | @thegardencinema.bsky.social @queereast.bsky.social

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News: The Garden Cinema celebrates LGBT+ History Month | easternkicks.com
A curated season of queer classics includes Korean films co-presented by Queer East... This month, The Garden Cinema is marking LGBT+ History Month with a season of trailblazing landmark films that ce...
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February 5, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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The evils of toxic relationships are conjured by a classic ghost story in TAKESHI MIIKE’s underseen 2014 horror, now presented for the first time in the UK by #88_films

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Movie review: Over Your Dead Body | easternkicks.com
The evils of toxic relationships are conjured by a classic ghost story in Takeshi Miike’s underseen 2014 horror... Working with your spouse can be a real drag. You see too much of each other, you begi...
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February 5, 2026 at 8:38 AM
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Peter Yung’s near lost crime drama makes a welcome return: THE SYSTEM ★★★★½ | Part of the M+ Restored programme from the #mplusmuseum

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February 3, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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12th FEFF Campus looks for cinema’s next generation - The initiative returns for 2026! #udinefareastfilm #FEFF28 #FEFFCampus

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News: 12th FEFF Campus looks for cinema’s next generation | easternkicks.com
The initiative returns for 2026!... The Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy, has launched its annual search for eager young film enthusiasts to join its ground-breaking FEFF Campus – an initiative ...
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February 2, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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Dante Lam’s 2012 thriller saw the director being given a considerably bigger budget to blow even more things up loudly | This week's #cineXtremes entry!
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January 29, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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A rare and surprisingly grounded reflection on sex work by Pink Film legend Banmei Takahashi: A NEW LOVE IN TOKYO | Screening at #Metrograph, released by #kani_releasing

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Movie review: A New Love in Tokyo | easternkicks.com
A rare and surprisingly grounded reflection on sex work by Pink Film legend Banmei Takahashi... Pink film master Banmei Takahashi reflects on the sex industry in this understated and emotionally rich ...
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January 28, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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Boom! Sammo’s married, punched, thrown, and trashed through Canada with Maggie Cheung in @Eurekavideo's great release of PAPER MARRIAGE | Part of the Sammo Hung Triple Threat Blu-ray set
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January 27, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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A mother tries to save herself and her son when an apocalyptic flood strikes their apartment building: THE GREAT FLOOD | Streaming now on @netflix.com!
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January 26, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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n editor restoring a lost silent Filipino horror film releases a demon in Nikolas Red’s directorial debut: POSTHOUSE | This week's #cineXtremes entry streaming now on @netflix.com!

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January 22, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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What's this? Song Kang-ho and Youn Yuh-jung to appear in season 2 of @netflix.com's BEEF? 😳
January 22, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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Know thyself! The Japan Foundation’s annual Touring Film Programme returns for 2026 - This season’s programme hits 34 cinemas under the theme, “Knowing Me, Knowing You: The True Self in Japanese Cinema” #jpflondon

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January 21, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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The goofier but still charming follow up to the wild spectacle of Peacock King: SAGA OF THE PHOENIX | Available on Blu-Ray now from #88_Films

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January 19, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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Derek Yee’s 2010 follow-up to Double Tap and One Nite in Mongkok offers more shootouts and hardboiled crime drama: TRIPLE TAP | This week's #cineXtremes entry!

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January 15, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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Catch a special screening of NO OTHER CHOICE at #BFI IMAX this Saturday before it's release from 23 January with director Park Chan-wook in attendance. Park will also be at an IMAX screening of OLDBOY on Friday! #MUBI

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January 14, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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A captivatingly conducted and performed erotic thriller with an unlikely classical bent to its madness: HIDDEN FACE ★★★★ | Available on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital from @wellgousa.bsky.social
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January 14, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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The war drama that became China’s Oscars submission: DEAD TO RIGHTS | Recently screened as part of #asianworldff 2025

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January 13, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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1980s: The Lost Decade of Japanese Cinema season - The Garden Cinema London presents UK’s first-ever season of films from Japan’s ‘forgotten era’ of filmmaking @thegardencinema.bsky.social

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News: 1980s: The Lost Decade of Japanese Cinema season | easternkicks.com
The Garden Cinema presents UK’s first-ever season of films from Japan’s ‘forgotten era’ of filmmaking... The UK’s first-ever season of films covering an often-overlooked period of Japanese film histor...
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January 8, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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A cop accidentally releases a female ghost from a banana plantation, resulting in romance, melodrama and wacky supernatural hijinks: THE CASE OF THE SPIRIT OF BANANA | This week's #cineXtremes entry!

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January 8, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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We're very sad to hear of the passing of Ahn Sung-ki. 😢 We had teh pleasure of taking part in a group interview some 11 years ago.

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January 5, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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Cheng Pei-Pei and Kao Yuen unravel a deadly mystery in wuxia spectacle from Lo Wei: THE GOLDEN SWORD ★★★★½ | Available as part of @shoutstudios.bsky.social Shaw Brothers Classics Vol. 1!

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January 5, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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South Korean movie star Ahn Sung-ki, dubbed 'The Nation's Actor,' dies at 74
South Korean film star Ahn Sung-ki, whose prolific career earned him the nickname “The Nation's Actor,” has died. He was 74 and had had blood cancer for years.
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January 5, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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Recrimination doesn’t have to be bitter to hurt: THE TOWN WITHIN REACH ★★★★ | Part of #Metrograph's Memories of a Vietnamese Cinema season. www.easternkicks.com/reviews/the-...
January 2, 2026 at 8:17 PM