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The San Diego International Film Festival (SDIFF) hosted its annual event once again for fans of independent cinema from around the world. Organizers provided a unique experience for attendees with their...

Featured Image courtesy of Japan Cuts Hollywood. The inaugural year of Japan Cuts Hollywood, presented by the Japan America Society of Southern California (JASSC) and Japan House Los Angeles, opened its...

Featured Image courtesy of SDAFF. Every year the San Diego Asian Film Festival showcases short animated features in its program "Animation: Jumping the Line". This year, organizers let past Best Animated...

Featured Image courtesy of SDAFF. While many of the films in the San Diego Asian Film Festival (SDAFF) are for older audiences, the event brings a special showcase catered to kids called “Shorts for...

This year’s San Diego International Film Festival showcased many short films from a wide range of subjects and themes. The following ones were just a few we took notice of among the long...

Director Kazuya Shiraishi adapts Mahokaru Numata’s 2006 novel “Birds Without Names” into a dismal drama for the silver screen. Towako (Yu Aoi, “Tokyo Ghoul”) lives with the clumsy but kind...

Last year’s film “Creepy” director Kiyoshi Kurosawa returned to the San Diego Asian Film Festival in the form of his latest work “Before We Vanish”. The film took its audience on a journey of...

Festival organizers brought the strange dark comedy “A Beautiful Star” from director Daihachi Yoshida for the first time in the U.S. Based off of the 1962 novel by Yukio Mishima, the film followed...

Each year, organizers of the San Diego Asian Film Festival pride over their compilations of the short submissions. This year has ten that focuses on certain themes. Here we feature some relating to Japanese...

Gonzalo Ordóñez Arias, aka GENZOMAN, is a Chilean artist who is no stranger to fan art. Starting out on deviantART years ago, he has developed his art style into something incredibly detailed and accurate...