AND THAT’S A WRAP!
To all the audiences, the filmmakers, the members, and volunteers: thanks for making SDAFF2015 another memorable success!
GET CRUSHED AGAIN!
We’ve just announced two of our TBA slots: additional screenings of CRUSH THE SKULL (Wed, Nov. 11, 8:55pm) and TYRUS (Thurs, Nov. 12, 8:15pm)
HAIR, NAILS, TIARA. LET’S GO!
Celebrate Asian and Asian America cinema at the San Diego Asian Film Festival this Nov. 5-14. Get your tickets now!
Festival Highlights
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CRUSH THE SKULL
Viet Nguyen / Asian American Panorama / USA / 2015 / comedy, horror, thriller / 83 mins
Chris Dinh and Katie Savoy are in love, but they need fast cash. Luckily, they’re professional thieves. Unluckily, they break into a house with no exit and no cell phone reception and no explanation for the torture pit they discover there. Luckily for us, their hapless misadventures are sheer comic gold.
CRUSH THE SKULL
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Friday, November 6, 2015 9:05 pmCRUSH THE SKULL
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 8:55 pm -
THE ASSASSIN
Hou Hsiao-hsien / Masters / China, Hong Kong, Taiwan / 2015 / drama, experimental, martial arts / 104 mins
The great Hou Hsiao-hsien’s long-awaited martial arts adaptation is a masterpiece of the wuxia spirit. An assassin is ordered to kill her cousin but then scales away from a life of violence. Intricately ordered and immaculately detailed, but always profoundly naturalistic, Hou stuns with a treatise on beauty and justice that is beyond words.
THE ASSASSIN
UCSD Calit2 Atkinson Hall Auditorium
Sunday, November 8, 2015 4:15 pm Buy TicketsTHE ASSASSIN
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 8:35 pm Buy Tickets
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MADE IN JAPAN
Josh Bishop / Asian American Panorama / USA / 2015 / documentary, musical / 90 mins
Howdy neighbors! So says Tomi Fujiyama to her friends in the U.S. who are about to discover just what kind of neighbor she is. With cowboy hat and guitar, she’s determined to re-take the Grand Ole Opry stage, where in 1964, she became the country music institution’s first Japanese star.
CLOSING NIGHT: MADE IN JAPAN
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sherwood Auditorium
Friday, November 13, 2015 7:00 pm -
MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART
Jia Zhang-ke / Masters / China, France, Japan / 2015 / drama / 131 mins
A poignant epic spanning decades and continents, Jia Zhang-ke’s latest masterpiece follows a love triangle from its dance-infused beginnings to its jet-set millennial melancholy. Jia explores China’s past, present, and future as only he can: with a canto-pop heart and a bleeding love for ordinary people strewn apart.
MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART
UltraStar Mission Valley
Friday, November 6, 2015 8:55 pmMOUNTAINS MAY DEPART
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Monday, November 9, 2015 5:30 pm
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LOVE & PEACE
Sion Sono / Masters / Japan / 2015 / comedy, musical / 117 mins
From the warped mind of Sion Sono comes one of his most entertaining films to date. An office nerd has glam-rock dreams but only his pet turtle gives him any encouragement. Things blow up (literally) when a magic spell turns the sewers and the city into a musical fantasy-world.
LOVE & PEACE
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Monday, November 9, 2015 6:00 pmLOVE & PEACE
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 5:50 pmLOVE & PEACE
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Thursday, November 12, 2015 9:50 pm -
THE ROYAL TAILOR
Lee Won-Suk / Asia Pop! / South Korea / 2014 / comedy, historical / 127 mins
Court politics get tangled in this farce about an emperor, his personal tailor, and a cocksure young designer who has wild ideas about fashion, spinning the city asunder. From one of Korea’s best comedy directors comes sexy period intrigue with a distinctly modern twist.
THE ROYAL TAILOR
UltraStar Mission Valley
Monday, November 9, 2015 8:15 pm
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ZINNIA FLOWER
Tom Shu-Yu Lin / Asia Pop! / Taiwan / 2015 / drama, romance / 96 mins
They say it takes 100 days to mourn a death. Director Tom Lin, who made the gripping ZINNIA FLOWER to cope with his wife’s own passing, gifts us the story of two strangers who lose their loved ones in a car crash and discover that mourning takes more than time, but an unexpected, liberating journey of solitude.
ZINNIA FLOWER
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 3:40 pmZINNIA FLOWER
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Thursday, November 12, 2015 7:55 pm -
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Naomi Kawase / Masters / France, Germany, Japan / 2015 / drama, food / 113 mins
The neighborhood pastry chef gets an unusual applicant to be his assistant: a 76-year-old woman with a surprising knowledge of how to improve the red-bean sweetness of his pancake confections. But with the secret recipe comes secrets about the woman’s background, and the chef is brought to rethink his inspiration.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 6:15 pmAN
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Thursday, November 12, 2015 5:30 pm
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