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SDAFF 2025 : Project Y
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 Two friends tired of their precarious existence in the nighttime life of Gangnam, in South Korea, plan to gather a bunch of money and start a new business elsewhere, only to find themselves embroiled in fixed sports games with high gangster stakes, buried gold treasure, and an uncontrollable mother with her own agenda! This sort of neo-noir thriller has plenty of precedent, but director Hwan Lee keeps us happy with sharper protagonists, a...
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SDAFF Spring Showcase 2025 : Out of Plain Sight
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A documentary featuring the on-going effects of the dumping of the insecticide DDT off the Los Angeles coast more than 40 years ago, to this day and beyond. The use of insecticides on crops consumed by the common person is a...
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...