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Exiled Movie Review

Exiled (B+)

Johnnie To and the gang return for this stylized spaghetti Western-influenced pic about a group of hitmen

Action | Hong Kong | 2006

Im a Cyborg But Thats OK Movie Review

Im a Cyborg But Thats OK (B)

Park Chan-wook directs this quirky romantic-comedy starring Im Soo-jeong and Rain

Comedy | Korea | 2006

The Bow Movie Review

The Bow (C)

Kim Ki-duk directs this unique melodrama about the relationship between a 60 year old man and a 16 year old girl living together on a boat.

Drama | Korea | 2005

Innocent Steps Movie Review

Innocent Steps (B-)

Moon Geun-young and Park Gun-hyung star in this ballroom dance related romantic comedy

Romance | Korea | 2005

Perhaps Love Movie Review

Perhaps Love (A)

Peter Chan returns to the direct this love triangle musical starring Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhou Xun and Jacky Cheung

Romance | Hong Kong | 2005

Mind Game Movie Review

Mind Game (A)

The award-winning, mind-bending, life-changing Masaaki Yuasa directed anime

Anime | Japan | 2004

Updates

So yeah. The NYAFF has been going on and its been great. I've just added reviews for Im a Cyborg But Thats OK and Exiled. We're having some slight database problems with the corresponding posters for the film, so hopefully that will be fixed soon. I also saw The City of Violence and The Banquet, so reviews for those will be posted pretty soon, along with Dynamite Warrior. I'm a bit backed up on the Steamboy review, so I need to find time for that too. It's going to be a busy weekend and next week over here, so keep checking back because maybe we'll actually have something for you this time!

That sounds like a good ACdrifter slogan.

Posted on June 28, 2007 at 8:14pm by Tuna | 1 Comments

More work and rework

Hey all, glad some viewers still stop by and I hope more will start doing same. Sorry I haven't posted a review recently, I've actually been mainly focused on taking a look at my older reviews, which have some formatting issues, bad grammar and some simply incoherent sections. Since I've improved my writing over the last year, I've decided to fix up some of the older reviews so they fit the rest of the site better.

This will be finished soon though. Don't fret. Coming up in the near future is a Steamboy review, perhaps another couple reviews, and then the New York Asian Film Festival will be give me plenty of movies to update on from Takashi Miike and Park Chan-wook's latests to Xiaogang's Hamlet adaptation. I'm excited and if anyone else is in town, I highly recommend seeing this movies on the big screen.

I hope to have more visitors returning for the festival coverage. I can't really post links on wikipedia film pages anymore because I got reprimanded. So I'm also going to have to look into other cheap ways of getting this site out there. Any ideas?

Posted on June 7, 2007 at 10:18am by Tuna | 5 Comments

A dramatic return

Takeshis Movie Poster So it's been a while but Asian Cinema Drifter is looking to get started again with reviews. Hopefully the bugs and kinks will be worked out, but in the meantime, here's a new review for Takeshis for a taste of what's to come. Stay tuned to the front page because more reviews will be coming up soon.

Posted on May 7, 2007 at 10:52am by Tuna | 8 Comments

Exaggerated reports of my death

Hi to all who are still visiting. I know it has been a while since we launched the new site and an even longer time since I added a review and I wanted to apologize for the lack of updates we've had recently. I love working on ACdrifter. I've just found it physically impossible to handle the amount of work I've been getting back in the real world, so I could not even begin to think about what I needed to do here. I haven't watched an Asian film for months. But I know that's definitely going to change in the beginning of May. I keep thinking I'm clear after a heap of work, and then there's another obstruction in the way. But come May, school-work will be done. I'll be free to return to regular movie watching habits, the site will be majorly updated, and then given regular attention. Seriously.


P.S. Technically the caption contest has been consistently updated actually. So all hasn't been lost.

Posted on April 24, 2006 at 7:23pm by Tuna | 18 Comments

ACDrifter Revision Launched!

After 2 weeks of working non-stop, ACDrifter 4.0 is launched. If you encounter any bugs, please use the contact page to tell us about it. Leave notes on what you like / don't like in the comments section of this post. Thanks and we hope you enjoy the upgrade!

And yes, the Caption Contest has returned! Have fun all...

Posted on March 18, 2006 at 9:20pm by Todd | 8 Comments

hi

We might be changing servers right now, so there may be some downtime. Please bear with it and updates will begin as soon as this is decided and complete.

P.S. We're also re-doing the site so it will look prettier than ever. In addition, there will be new sections, features, and itty bitty improvements. Expect a completely updated coming soon section, links, cast/crew, and of course new reviews when we have the newst version up. Thanks for sticking with us.

Posted on February 19, 2006 at 12:12pm by Tuna | 285 Comments

Mornin'

Perhaps Love Movie Poster Hmm, well first off, here's a Perhaps Love review for all you folks. I want to go back and get some neato caps so those will be up tomorrow. I'm sorry about being a day late, and I was just thinking sheer ambiguity on my review dates would be better for all of us. Noone would get disappointed if it were a day late, everyone would be very tense and excited and constantly visiting ACdrifter to check if something has been sneaked on, and when things are uploaded, it's like mining gold. Online gold.

But in reality, I think I'm giving myself too much credit here equating my written word with gold. But if I ever reach that level, I'll start charging a subscription fee for the site and everyone will know I sold out. Then you can all comment and yell at me for it, assuming I allow non-subscribers to post. Anyway it's almost 1, I don't even remember any of the things of actual worth that I was going to say in this post, I'm basically typing without using the backspace key and I just don't know how to end this post.

I was thinking of going with the irony of ending on that last sentence but then I wouldn't be able to comment on my intention of doing so. I guess I could have added a comment, but I don't like that because of the silly people that like to pretend to be me by cleverly adding the period to the end of my name so they can post with it. I invented that tricks folks and that would also be ironic if I were fooled by it. Well, I think I'm alanis moris-Set-te for bed. Kill me now.

Posted on January 11, 2006 at 2:57am by Tuna | 55 Comments

Quick note

Hey guys, it's been a busy week and weekend. The review for Perhaps Love will be up late tonight/tomorrow.

Posted on January 8, 2006 at 5:58pm by Tuna | 17 Comments

Sorry for the wait.

Mind Game Movie Poster But yeah, here are the promised reviews Mind Game, Train Man, The Duelist, Crying Fist and Ping Pong. There's my proof that I will be a little less busier now. The next couple days will be spent updating the Coming Soon section, Cast and Crew, Links and any other areas that need some work. Then for the weekend I hope to review Perhaps Love, or Election.

Posted on January 4, 2006 at 2:35am by Tuna | 4 Comments

Happy New Years

Happy New Years to all our readers, I have more reviews written up, I just need to find time to post them so stay with us, and enjoy your last day of holidays..

Posted on January 1, 2006 at 8:33pm by Tuna | 9 Comments

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