Author: Ghost Writer

1

Haine, La

Mathieu Kassovitz’s black and white 1995 French film, La Haine, still captivates after all these years.

7

Ai Love (2012)

Doze Niu’s follow-up to his gangster drama is a complex dramedy about various types of love in contemporary China-Taiwan relations.

3

Usagi Drop

Based on the josei manga by Yumi Unita, Usagi Drop tells the story of 27-year-old Daikichi, who ends up living with his grandfather’s 6-year-old illegitimate child, Rin, after his passing.

4

Andalucia: Revenge of the Goddess

Japanese foreign diplomat Kosaku Kuroda is in Andalucia to investigate the death of a Japanese investor, suspected to have been killed. The only witness or culprit is a young clerk from Victor Bank.

4

Sorcerer and the White Snake, The

The Sorcerer and the White Snake is a re-telling of the really old and always told story of a White Snake demon who takes the shape of a woman and unnaturally falls in love with a human man.

7

Honey PuPu

Director Hung-i Chen is back with some sort of experimental type of drama after his moderately successful short anthology of Candy Rain, this time around with a fresh batch of talent and a killer music score.

3

Patisserie Coin de Rue

Before you start off watching this movie, head over to your local pastry shop and get an order of your favorite deserts, as you won’t be able to stop salivating as you watch Yu Aoi master the arts of a grade-A patissier.

4

Albert Nobbs

Albert Nobbs is also sort of a passion project for Glenn Close, who not only starred in the film as the title character, or wrote the script alongside John Banville — she also produced it. This is Close’s baby and that will be it.

13

Love is not Blind

Unbelievable, a Chinese box office hit in which the main characters are a strangely normal spunky Beijing young woman and her almost perfectly snotty strange gay friend.