I received this info from Winnie at Wonder Wong PR about some upcoming screenings of the film ‘Seagrass’. Japanese Canadian writer-director Meredith Hama-Brown’s awarding-winning feature debut SEAGRASS’s theatrical release will begin on February 23 in select theatres across Canada:Cinéma du Parc, Montréal, QCCinéplex Forum, Montréal, QCTIFF Lightbox, Toronto, ON5th Ave Cineplex, Vancouver, BCSnakebite FF, Penticton ..read more

Chinese Canadian Leah Lum signed with the Montreal team of the PWHL, the new professional women’s hockey league. She plays both forward and defense. For Montreal she plays as a defender. She scored her first goal and point of the season against New York. She has played in previous professional women’s leagues including the defunct ..read more

Montreal based Vietnamese author Kim Thuy‘s award winning novel Ru has been adapted into a feature length French language film that is currently screening in Montreal. It stars Chloé Djandji in what I believe is her first film role. Here’s a CBC radio interview in English with the author and a different interview with the ..read more

Montreal born Leylah Fernandez helped Canada win its first ever Billie Jean King cup by beating Italy in the finals. Here are the match highlights ..read more

Breaking was added as a sport at the Pan Am games for the first time and Asian Canadian Philip Kim (from Vancouver) won gold and qualified for the 2024 Olympics in Paris ..read more

I debated a bit whether to explicitly say this since there is likely nobody who is actually a regular reader who would really notice but I’ve decided to stop posting on this blog and about East Asian films/movies in general. It is highly likely a permanent decision. One of the reasons was due to health ..read more

Sometimes I see articles comparing movies to video games and arguing for which one is better. Perhaps it’s simply because video games are big money now or that video games often have cutscenes that are pretty much exactly like scenes or sequences in films/movies and TV series. Prime examples of this being the Yakuza/Like a ..read more

For a long time and still to some degree now, it seemed the only East Asian movies or TV that became popular in North America were martial arts, horror, Japanese anime, and crime (triads & yakuza). There was a bit of change when Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries got a bit into martial arts ..read more

In recent years there seems to have been some discussion on the internet about the lack of martial arts stars in recent years or asking the question, who will be the next big martial arts star. By martial arts star I mean someone who trained in martial arts when they were young and won competitions ..read more

The Fantasia International Film Festival has released their third wave of film announcements and also the full schedule is now available on their website. The festival runs from July 20-August 9, 2023. Recent movies from Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan as well as some old classics (especially from Hong Kong and South Korea ..read more