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SDAFF 2025 : 3670
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 The story of a North Korean defector trying to find a new life, and perhaps some queer love, in South Korea’s cosmopolitan Seoul. Being an openly-ish gay male in South Korea is a fairly recent thing, and though there are now several “gay districts”, in Seoul and other places, there is still a sense of hesitancy to live loud and Proud. But like so many other wondrous things to come out of Korea in the last decade or so, the rainbow children of...
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SDAFF Spring Showcase 2025 : Baby Assassins: Nice Days
Reviewed by Alicia Glass In the third installment of the Baby Assassins series, teenage hitpeople Chisato and Mahiro visit the coastal town of Miyazaki, on a combination mission and vacation, when they encounter a fellow bloodthirsty assassin as a new...
SDAFF Spring Showcase 2025 : Lucky Star
Reviewed by Alicia Glass After falling prey to a tax scam, reformed gambler Lucky goes through increasingly desperate actions to try and make ends meet for his struggling family. So when we meet Lucky (Terry Chen), he’s already or more accurately still in...
SDAFF Spring Showcase 2025 : Soldier of Love
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The story of rising Kazakh music star Beybut and his navigating the trappings, and failings, of fame. So apparently the now-familiar story trope of a musician who climbs to fame and ignores or casts aside everyone who helped him...