Police took Pegi Setiawan into custody and insisted he was the last fugitive linked to the deaths of teenagers Vina Dewi Arsita and her boyfriend Eky.

Artistic, unorthodox and independent are three of the words curator Silke Schmickl uses to describe what’s coming in the inaugural four-day Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival at the M+ museum in Hong Kong.

Having wowed the film festival crowds with her debut feature, City of Wind, Portugal-based Mongolian director Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir reveals why her next project will see her return to her homeland.

From the Palme d’Or-winning Anora to The Surfer, starring one-man meme machine Nicolas Cage, to Emilia Pérez with Selena Gomez, 10 of the best movies unveiled at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Horror film based on a viral YouTube video stars Shotaro Mamiya as a YouTuber who reports on the occult, and who investigates a mysterious house with an architect (Jiro Sato). The ending disappoints.

Saurabh Shukla, who will be bringing his stage show Barff – Hindi for ‘snow’ – to Hong Kong in June, talks about being typecast for his large frame and still feeling 22 at the age of 60.

Fruit Chan Gor’s Made in Hong Kong, The Longest Summer and Little Cheung depict Hong Kong working-class life at the time of the handover from British to Chinese rule, and the start of cultural change.

Jan Lamb of Cantopop duo Softhard is nothing if not versatile. The Hong Kong entertainer has been an actor, graphic designer, rapper, stand-up comedian, popular radio host, dramatist, and film director.

Aaron Kwok plays a father who works in a factory and moonlights as a rock star, and is killed in a traffic accident. After 24 years, he comes back as a dog in this awful comedy with no redeeming features.

Veteran Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke talks about Caught by the Tides, his 2024 Cannes Film Festival entry, which captures the changes he witnessed in the 20-something years in which it was shot.

Vietnamese director Minh Quy Truong’s third feature Viet and Nam, featuring at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, is a valiant, opaque expression of Vietnam’s collective trauma centred on two gay miners.

Rough-edged detective Do-cheol (Hwang Jung-min) returns in I, The Executioner, in which he and his team, including Jung Hae-in’s new recruit, must protect a paroled thug from a vigilante justice warrior.

Christopher Sun’s film has the trappings of a social realist drama, but in fact is a well constructed mystery. Not without its flaws, it is a welcome addition to the Hong Kong film canon.

Junji Sakamoto’s simple tale of the courtship between a manure salesman and the daughter of a disgraced samurai is a charming watch.

dreamy colours, heartfelt performances and economical storytelling characterise My Sunshine, Japanese director Hiroshi Okuyama’s film following two young ice dancers and their coach.

The tsuchinoko, a creature resembling a fat snake that you wouldn’t want to anger, is the star of a new film that uses the mythical animal to explore how Japan has changed since the mid-20th century.

Tomotaka Shibayama’s animated fantasy My Oni Girl on Netflix looks good but feels pedestrian and predictable, and sadly lacks the spark and inventiveness of a Studio Ghibli film.

2001 videos of his hometown, outtakes from past films, and scenes of a thinly sketched romance make up Caught by the Tides, a nostalgia trip set in towns soon to be drowned by China’s Three Gorges Dam.

Inspired casting, with Andy Lau facing off against Maggie Q and Sammo Hung narrating, helped Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon succeed. Martial arts scenes light up God of War, some involving Hung.

Is it a Western? is it a political allegory? In a film of two halves with a stunning opening, Eddie Peng’s wayward man returns home after a decade away, bonds with a dog and reconciles with one and all.

Korean actress Chun Woo-hee, currently on screens in Netflix’s The Atypical Family and The 8 Show, has been appearing in films and on TV in Korea for two decades. We look back over her acting career.

Premiering out of competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, An Unfinished Film, from Chinese director Lou Ye, delivers a powerful message in its story of Covid-induced lockdown in Wuhan.

While you wait to see Anya Taylor-Joy battle Chris Hemsworth, how about treating yourself to some of the best Asian films depicting an uninhabitable future, from Akira to Snowpiercer.

Star of category III soft porn films such as Erotic Ghost Story and Sex and Zen, Amy Yip talks about her time in Hong Kong’s adult movie industry, the ‘Yip tease’, and thoughts of acting again.

South Korea’s 1979 coup d’état is brought to the big screen in 12.12: The Day. The film’s director, producer, and lead actor Jung Woo-sung talk about dramatising an event whose details were secret for decades.

Korean horror film The Sin, by Han Dong-seok, sees the shooting of an experimental movie break down when a series of bizarre events occur. The film shows glimpses of promise but is ultimately underwhelming.

Infernal Affairs, the 2002 psychological Hong Kong cop drama starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau, was a box-office hit, but proved a hard act to follow when the studio asked for two more films.

In 2009, Dragonball Evolution adapted Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball for the big screen, but the result was a low-budget, laughably bad movie that sidelined Asians and debased the iconic manga series.