The 16th annual New York Asian Film Festival (June 30th – July 16th) started its two-week run on Friday, and we’re putting together our beefiest coverage ever: three lengthy dispatches posted throughout the whole sprawling schedule. In Dispatch 1, you’ll find NYAFF’s more characteristic, genre-oriented fare (Alan Mak and Felix Chong’s Extraordinary Mission, Leste Chen’s Battle of Memories), but also several serious-minded dramas (Midi Z’s The Road to Mandalay, Miwa Nishikawa’s The Long Excuse, Lee Kyoung-mi’s The Truth Beneath), off-kilter comedies (Nattawut Poonpiriya’s Bad Genius, Chen Yu-Hsun’s The Village of No Return), a…
