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SDAFF 2025 : Mag Mag
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 In the proud tradition of JHorror that gave us the likes of Ju-On, and Ringu, comes a story about an urban legend ghostie gal who is killing boys from a certain high school. Japan is infamous for having all sorts of tropes, stories and legends revolving around their baddies, most notably the onryo and yurei, both of which are essentially ghostly villains, usually female, who still have bad things to do here on Earth. The weeping woman story, the...
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SDAFF 2025 : Left-Handed Girl
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 After spending years in the country, a single mother and her two daughters move to Taipei and open a noodle stall in a bustling night market. Family ties that bind are also the ones that gag, right? Trying to survive on...
SDAFF 2025 : Magellan
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 Set during the Age of Discovery, in 1504 famed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Filipino land of Malacca, plus his subsequent on-going attempts to capture and colonize said lands and people. The film...
SDAFF 2025 : Resurrection
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 In a world where people have stopped dreaming in order to expand their lifespans, a few brave folk still dream, warping the fabric of time. The film gives us five dreams, one for each of the senses, each representing a chronological...