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SDAFF 2025 : Haunted Mountains The Yellow Taboo
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 Legend speaks of haunted mountains in Taiwan, where lost hikers are led astray by a ghostly apparition in a yellow slicker, to their deaths. Time loop horror is a relatively new sub-genre of horror, with movies like Donnie Darko, Happy Death Day, and the recent Until Dawn giving us entries filled with comedy, tragedy, gore and, of course, looped deaths in some of the most horror-ific ways possible. Haunted Mountains dives us deep into Taiwanese...
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SDAFF 2024 New Wave
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The film is half a recollection of displaced Vietnamese kids fled to America after the Vietnam war creating a community of their own around the super-popular New Wave music movement, and half a biographical journey of filmmaker Elizabeth Ai’s...
SDAFF 2024 Shanghai Blues
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The amazing 4K restoration of a beloved 1984 classic for its 40th Anniversary, Shanghai Blues tells the story of a pair of star-crossed lovers who, determined to meet up after the war with the Japanese is over, endure all sorts of...
SDAFF 2024 All We Imagine As Light
Reviewed by Alicia Glass In the lonely, crowded city of Mumbai, a pair of female Nurse roommates struggle with repressed desires, societal expectations, and the eternal weight of reality that crushes human dreams. So Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and Anu (Divya Prabha) are...