Asian Filmfest @ UP Film Center

UP Film Center is holding its 1st Asian Filmfest where it showcases the more vibrant films in the region. It is from Jan 13 to 31 so there's still lots of time to catch an interesting Asian flick.

I just watched The Yin-Yang Master becuase apparently according to the film description, it was a samurai film and a box-office hit. I thought it was like Seven Samurai or the likes. But when i viewed it, it was more of a magical and mystics film that touches on the existence of demons and how magicians (who writes those calligraphy on strips of paper and attach them to create or break a spell) vanquish them. It really feels like a LIVE ACTION anime feature! Hehe.

The film is fun! The battle between the two great yin-yang masters at the middle part where they tried to cast and re-cast spells on a cursed baby was great. Though i felt the scenes in the ends were not as finesse as they could have been written and other ways of playing it out could have been better. The whole 3rd act where the the lives of the two protagonist, Seimei and Hiromisa, where at stake have some logic deficiencies.

I will catch other films like In The Mood For Love and 2046 (yes, i'm still Wong Kar-wai ignorant), and Bayani by Raymond Red. Maybe I will catch those other.. ehem.. fascinating films like The Sin and The Fruit is Swelling if my schedule allows me to (read: search those film titles and you'll get what I mean).

Some skeds:

Jan 18 5pm My Wife is A Gangster
Jan 19 2and5pm Bayani
Jan 20 5pm House of Flying Daggers
Jan 21 5pm In The Mood For Love
Jan 24 5pm A Good Lawyer's Wife
Jan 25 5pm The Sin
Jan 26 2pm Nang-Nak
Jan 26 5pm The Fruit is Swelling
Jan 27 5pm Zhou Yu's Train
Jan 28 5pm 2046
jan 31 5pm Three

Ticket price is at 50 pesos (unless changed).