The 18th annual New York Asian Film Festival ended on Sunday, and we’ve prepared one dispatch from the festival this year, with some notable titles: the fest’s opening selection, Candyman director Bernard Rose’s Samurai Marathon; the latest from Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden, Jinpa; a comeback of sorts for outspoken Hong Kong actor Anthony Wong, in Oliver Siu Kuen Chan’s Still Human; Mr. Long, one of two films at this year’s fest from the iconoclastic, mononymous Japanese auteur Sabu; one film from NYAFF’s “main competition”…
The 17th edition of the New York Asian Film Festival comes to a close this Sunday, and as usual the program offers a massive, sprawling slate that we’ve tried to navigate selectively. Our first of two dispatches from the fest focuses on five titles from…