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We speak to Lee Myung-se the visionary and dazzling director of Duelist and Nowhere To Hide, as the first of KCCUK’s The Year of the 12 Directors series… (more…)

It’s been another brilliant year, both for easternKicks.com and for Asian film in the UK – until the Sony Distribution Centre fire in August… (more…)

It was the London Korean Film Festival press launch last Friday, and Kim Han-min was in town to introduce a special preview of his film Arrow, The Ultimate Weapon, which will open the event… (more…)

‘Willie Chan, Jackie Chan, Frankie Chan, Benny Chan… We’re all related. That Momma Chan was a very busy lady!’… (more…)

Ah, yes. Takashi Miike. I think I’ve heard of him. Hasn’t he got a reputation for making really, really, really, really violent movies?

Well, he has been known too. His mid-90s Triad Society trilogy, starting with Shinjuku Triad Society, set the scene for what was to come with rather excessive violence. Ichi The Killer, based on a manga, had to be cut by more than three minutes in order for the British Board of Film Classification to allow its release in the UK. In Hong Kong, they skimmed 15 minutes from its running time. At its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2001 they even gave the audience barf bags. (more…)

Oooooh er, missus! easternKicks gets all saucy with the director of the new 3D Sex And Zen: Extreme Ecstasy movie, Christopher Sun Lap-Key. But you’d almost think it was more of a ‘chick flick’ to hear him describe it… (more…)

The high school of the… what did you say?

Dead. You know, the living dead, zombies, call them what you will. They’ve been all the rage ever since Danny Boyle resurrected the genre with his so-called ‘non-zombie’ movie 28 Days Later, and with TV programmes like The Walking Dead around, it shows no signs of waning any time soon. (more…)

We take an in-depth peek behind the scenes at one of the UK’s biggest and most-loved independent distributors of Asian film, Cine-Asia, with executive director of its parent company Showbox, Steve Rivers… (more…)

With Detective Dee and the Mystery of Phantom Flame just out on UK Blu-ray and DVD, we chat to the New Wave Hong Kong director and massively influential film producer Tsui Hark… (more…)

We talk to Andy Lau, star of Infernal Affairs, House Of Flying Daggers, The Warlords and much, much more about working with Tsui Hark and Sammo Hung on Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, upcoming release Shaolin and working with Ann Hui again… (more…)

Based on his own recollections, Robert Lee talks about the new Blu-ray and DVD release Young Bruce Lee, starring Aarif Rahman, Tony Leung Ka-fai and Christy Cheung, and the highs and lows of having one of the world’s most famous movie stars as a brother… (more…)

We chat to Aarif Rahman, star of new Bruce Lee biopic Young Bruce Lee (aka Bruce Lee, My Brother), based on the recollection of Bruce’s own younger brother Robert… (more…)

We talk to Lee Byung-hun (A Bitterweet Life, The Good, The Bad, The Weird, G.I. Joe) about his latest collaboration with Kim Jee-woon, revenge thriller I Saw The Devil… (more…)

As Takashi Miike’s 13 Assassins is released this Friday, we’re publishing this revealing interview with the prolific filmmaker himself…! (more…)

The Man From Nowhere owes a great deal of it’s conception to Taken, written and produced by French filmmaker Luc Besson, but only hints at a mutual appreciation towards Eastern cinema. To celebrate its upcoming release on UK DVD, we take a closer look at this special relationship… (more…)

We talk to director John H. Lee about his transition from romantic drama to action films with the impressive war story 71 – Into The Fire… (more…)