Daniel Eagan

2 weeks ago | screenanarchy.com | Daniel Eagan

Based on a novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui, Teki Cometh details an elderly professor's decline with almost clinical detachment. Shot in glistening black-and-white, director Daihachi Yoshida’s film is obstinately cold, a Perfect Days in reverse. Gisuke Watanabe (Kyozo Nagatsuka) leads an austere, almost spartan life in a rambling house filled with manuscripts and memorabilia. Cleaning, shopping, and cooking take up most of his time.

3 weeks ago | screenanarchy.com | Gu Byeong-Mo |Daniel Eagan

Like Kill Boksoon and many other titles before it, Pa-gwa / The Old Woman with the Knife sticks an unlikely star into a John Wick-style universe. In this case it's Lee Hye-young, a veteran performer from South Korea recently seen on the screen in Hong Sang-soo's A Traveler's Needs. Director and co-writer Min Kyu-dong's needlessly complicated script starts in 1975, as a starving woman collapses on a snowy city street.

3 weeks ago | thefilmstage.com | Daniel Eagan

One of the key figures in Hong Kong cinema, Tsui Hark is a writer, actor, producer, and groundbreaking director. Born in Vietnam, he attended college in the US before working in Hong Kong television. Hark directed his first features in the early 1980s. In 1984 he formed Film Workshop, a studio that helped boost the careers of John Woo, Chow Yun-fat, and Jet Li. Shanghai Blues, the first Film Workshop release, brought a revolutionary style and originality to Hong Kong filmmaking.

4 weeks ago | scmp.com | Daniel Eagan

It has been a while since Tony Leung Ka-fai last made a high-profile appearance at a European film festival to promote a film, so the occasion feels a little special. Still, when we sit down with him during the 2025 Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy, the Hong Kong film legend is waiting patiently in the hospitality suite of the Teatro Novo, quietly sipping a beer as journalists and photographers swirl around the room. “I like this festival,” Leung says. “I enjoy Udine and the audience here.

1 month ago | scmp.com | Daniel Eagan

Sylvia Chang Ai-chia is showing no signs of slowing down. The Taiwanese film icon is currently touring festivals with heartfelt drama Daughter’s Daughter, fine-tuning post-production on romance film Measure in Love and writing her next directing project, which she hopes to start filming in 2026. “I haven’t relaxed at all,” Chang says, sitting in a hotel lobby restaurant in Udine, Italy, where she received the Golden Mulberry Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2025 Far East Film Festival.