Chen Sicheng’s nationalist mystery comedy brings more of what we love about the Detective China series.
Category: Period
Detective Kien: The Headless Horror
Some broken crockery, a lake monster and one terrible father come together to make a pretty solid mystery in Victor Vu’s period whodunnit.
The Four Monkeys: The Return of Sun Wukong
We’re reaching the bottom of the Journey to the West barrel. Is this the end of Journuary?
20th Century Girl
In a world of pagers, video rentals and lax password security, two teens still manage to find love (while doing some casual stalking, of course).
Forbidden City Cop
Stephen Chow’s period piece sort-of James Bond parody is about as silly as you’d expect, and just as fun.
The Boy and the Heron
A young boy goes through the looking glass and ruffles more than a few feathers in Hayao Miyazaki’s probably-not-final feature.
Godzilla Minus One
In Takashi Yamazaki’s new spin on a classic, War is hell, but giant rampaging monsters are even worse.
Phantom
Everyone's a cat and everyone's a mouse in Lee Hae-young's action spy semi-thriller.
The Love Eterne
Love blossoms between a woman playing a man and a woman playing a woman playing a man, in Li Han Hsiang’s opera classic.
The King and the Clown
A street performer balances between being on the king’s good side and the king’s really good side in Lee Joon-ik’s period tragic dramedy.
The Million Ryo Pot
It’s a mild, mild, mild, mild world when a treasure map to a million ryo is discovered in Sadao Yamanaka’s classic comedy.
Seoul Vibe
The eighties are fast but very much not furious in Moon Hyun-sung’s car-driving action spectacle.