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Review: “Fukushima 50” Offers Uncontroversial Take On Japan’s Biggest Nuclear Disaster

By Anthony Kao

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Review: “Hit Me Anyone One More Time” Is A Playful Political Comedy From Japan

By Anthony Kao

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Review: “The Man Standing Next” Stars Lee Byung-hun As Park Chung-hee’s Assassin

By Anthony Kao

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Review: In Taiwanese Horror Movie “Detention,” Authoritarianism Is The Real Monster

By Anthony Kao

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Review: “The Perfect Candidate” Shows Saudi Arabia’s Evolving Women’s Rights Landscape

By Lorna Codrai

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Review: “Ten Years Taiwan” Reminds Us How Taiwan Has Problems Besides China

By Anthony Kao

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Review: “Ten Years Japan” Pictures Dystopia With Hopeful Undertones

By Emily Hsiang

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“Ten Years Thailand” Is an Abstract Take On Societal Pressures in Modern Thailand

By Richard Yu

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Review: “Salyut 7” is Russia’s “Apollo 13” — With A Geopolitical Twist

By Anthony Kao

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