Back in 2013 when Kevin Kwan debuted his now wildly successful book, Crazy Rich Asians, Ricepaper contributor, Patricia Lim, presented her take on the tale which some 5 years later …
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Ricepaper‘s JF Garrard recently took a trip to New York City and visited the wonderful Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA), which is dedicated to preserving and presenting the history, …
Graves Without a Name (Panh Rithy, Cambodia/France 2018) Panh Rithy’s latest documentary in his stable of Cambodia-centric films ranks as one of his saddest titles within his lifetime’s duty to document …
When a British newspaper interviewing Kore-eda Hirokazu in 2015 asked how he felt about his signature family dramas often being compared to those of the late Ozu Yasujiro, the respected …
Chinatown Ghosts, originally published in 1986, is a collection of poems that Jim Wong-Chu wrote over a period of years. Some of them were later published in Ricepaper. I encountered …
Walking into Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg is to step into a phantasmagoria of the garishly cute, the disarmingly grotesque, and above all, the unflinchingly bizarre: vibrant, …
Film festivals like Toronto are sometimes like revolving doors. Each year their whirlwind oscillations allow just the big films with coin and clout to pass through, attracting instant publicity, esteem …
It’s Christmas time! With the holiday seasons comes some down time for reading and contemplation. Here’s my chance to share with you my reading list for the past few months. …
Ontario Premiere at Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival Japan / 2017 / Rated 14A / 127:00 / Japanese with English subtitles The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival opened with …
Toronto Premiere at Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival Canada / 2017 / Rated 14A / 85:00 / English, Korean with English subtitles Stand Up Man is a film with a story which will resonate with young …