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Lee Hye-ri went from K-pop success to a household K-drama name. She talks about playing a cheerleader for her first lead movie role in Victory, and winning an award at the New York Asian Film Festival.

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Veteran Hong Kong actor Tai Bo reflects on being a member of Jackie Chan’s stunt team, working with John Woo when he was a new director, and playing more than 250 roles in his 51-year career.

He got his first action director credit for Customs Frontline: Hong Kong actor/singer Nicholas Tse talks about how he avoided CGI, even for explosions, to keep the film’s stunts as real as possible.

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Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard and Sam Rockwell star in Kingsman director Matthew Vaughn’s Argylle, a slick-looking espionage thriller that is full of often predictable twists.

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Korean actor Ma Dong-seok (aka Don Lee) talks about working with Badland Hunters’ director Heo Myung-haeng, adding comic elements to the new Netflix action movie, and relying on more than his fists.

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South Korean actress Bae Doona talks about playing the mysterious swordswoman Nemesis in Zak Snyder’s Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire, from the training to the make-up.

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Starring Sofia Boutella, Bae Doona and Ed Skrein, Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire is a blend of Star Wars and Seven Samurai from director Zack Snyder that will be released on Netflix in December.

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A father sets out to avenge his son’s death at the hands of a crime gang in a film with Woo’s trademark camera work, and stunts that will prompt gasps.

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Sung Kang, the Korean-American actor best known for playing Han Lue in the Fast & Furious films, talks about discrimination in Hollywood and directing his first film, Shaky Shivers, a horror comedy.

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Lee Hanee, star of Alienoid, Killing Romance and Phantom, who picked up an award at the recent New York Asian Film Festival, tells the Post about wanting to ‘cool down that comedy streak’ and play ‘a dark role’.

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With Randall Park’s new film Shortcomings about to hit cinemas, we catch up with the Fresh off the Boat star to talk about his insistence on ‘complex’ Asian characters, and directing on a budget.

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Dream director Lee Byeong-heon talks about why he wanted to make his Netflix movie about a homeless Korean football team – starring IU and Park Seo-joon – such an entertaining one.

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Crazy Rich Asians co-writer Adele Lim talks about her directing debut Joy Ride, an R-rated movie starring Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Sabrina Wu and Stephanie Hsu that’s as raunchy as it gets.

Disney+ series American Born Chinese, starring Michelle Yeoh, Ben Wang and Daniel Wu, mixes teen angst and supernatural myths as it follows an Asian-American student in suburban California.

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In a candid interview, filmmaker and director Johnnie To talks about censorship, losing money in the 2008 financial crisis, the possibility of Election 3 and the burden of hope in Hong Kong.

Jeon Do-yeon, the star of Netflix Korean thriller about an assassin with a wayward daughter, talked at the Berlin International Film Festival about her first time playing a killer and what it means to be a good parent.

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As a retrospective of his films kicks off in New York, Malaysian-Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang reveals how empathy has become more important in his work over the last 30 years.

Lou Yi-an, director and co-writer of Goddamned Asura, Taiwan’s entry for the 2023 best international feature Oscar, says he used his own personality to build his characters.

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Wu talks about Westworld Season 4 and working with an Asian-American director for the first time, his upcoming Disney+ series American Born Chinese, and his dream role.

Fala Chen, who has starred in Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings, talks about playing an actress making a vampire film in HBO series Irma Vep and parallels with Maggie Cheung Man-yuk.

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Asian films new and old screened to enthusiastic fans in northern Italy again, and among the pick of them were Korean mystery Confession and Hong Kong romantic comedy Far Far Away.

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Pachinko on Apple TV+ follows a family of Korean immigrants in Japan from the 1920s to the 1980s, a story its cast and crew could relate to. They talk about the challenges and rewards of making the drama series.

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Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, the directors of Everything Everywhere All at Once, reveal what convinced Michelle Yeoh to take on a starring role in their sci-fi comedy.

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Chinese actress Yu talks about her first American film and interviewing for it on Zoom. Yu is a Berklee College of Music graduate and writes and produces her own songs.

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Based on a Haruki Murakami short story, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car tells how a director’s life changes when his wife, whose sexual fantasies inspired her TV writing, dies.

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In a previously unpublished interview, director Peter Chan expands on why he had doubts about casting Maggie Cheung, and the significance of singer Teresa Teng, whose songs, and death, it features.

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Abandoned as babies and adopted by American families, Chloe, Sadie and Lily travel together to Guangdong in southern China to look for their birth parents in Found, a Netflix documentary.

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