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Featured Image courtesy of San Diego Asian Film Festival. Director Shinobu Yaguchi's latest film "Can't Stop the Dancing" brought the "Pop!" in San Diego Asian Film Festival's Asia Pop! 2019 lineup with...

Famed director Kore-eda passed his role to five others to produce "Ten Years Japan", an omnibus film looking into fictional but plausible futures of the nation. "Plan75" A representative of...

SDAFF brought "Yocho (Foreboding)" for the first time on the West Coast at this year's festival. It expanded the universe of Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa previous film "Before We Vanish" as the world slowing...

Director Lee Joon-Ik's 2018 film "Sunset in My Hometown" throws rapper Hak-Soo back to a place he tries to leave behind as he grabs another chance at his dreams. "Show Me the Money" is a popular TV...

Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi brings Tomoka Shibasaki's 2010 novel "Walking or Sleeping"(寝ても覚めても) to the silver screen as the film "Asako I & II". It didn't seem real how Asako (Erika...

Director Shuichi Okita brings a slice of the life of Morikazu Kumagai, recognized Japanese painter, in "Mori: The Artist's Habitat" a quaint comedy. As Japan grows more into its current modern form,...

Fans of horror and comedy will get a kick out of Director Shinichiro Ueda's 2017 film "One Cut of the Dead". Viewers enter an abandoned warehouse in Japan where a film crew struggles to...

As part of this year's event, organizers of SDAFF added a special selection called Celluloid Jukebox which were films that were iconic to the youth of the past.  One of the films was Director Yim Soon-Rye's...

Critically acclaimed director Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2017 film "The Third Murder" brought viewers at the 2018 SDAFF Spring Showcase questions about truth and justice within its thrilling mystery. Lawyer...

Yayoi Kusama ©Tokyo Lee Productions Inc. Organizers of the SDAFF's eighth annual Spring Showcase closed its weeklong event with a special screening of Director Heather Lenz's 2018 film "Kusama -...