2046

2046 (2004)

First published by Movie Gazette In Wong Kar-wai’s masterful study of love and loss In the Mood for Love (2000), set in early sixties Hong Kong, 2046 is the number of the hotel room where the journalist Chow secretly meets his neighbour Li-zhen to play out their confused feelings about their respective spouses’ adultery – until…

Ass

Five Asian Action Films That Kick Ass!

Five Asian Action Films that Kick Ass! first published by Scene360. In a sense, all Asian action movies kick ass – even those no-budget DTV ‘ninja’ flicks that seemed to come out once a week in the Eighties. Ass-kicking is what defines them. Yet there are some martial arts movies that can take on the competition…