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Supernatural drama, filmed in Singapore and the area of Japan devastated by the 2011 tsunami, has two nominations at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

Singaporean writer-director Nicole Midori Woodford is on a roll with her debut feature, Last Shadow At First Light, which premiered in New Directors at San Sebastian film festival and has two nominations at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSAs) for best screenplay and best performance (Mihaya Shirata). Filmed in Singapore and Japan, the film follows …

A trailer has been unveiled for Nicole Midori Woodford’s 'Last Shadow at First Light,' which world premieres at the San Sebastian Film Festival.

A first trailer has been unveiled for Nicole Midori Woodford’s feature debut “Last Shadow at First Light,” which world premieres at the New Directors strand of the San Sebastian Film Festival. The film is in competition for the New Directors Award. Starring acclaimed Japanese actor Nagase Masatoshi (“Sweet Bean”) and newcomer Shirata Mihaya, the film …

Singapore's ‘A Land Imagined’ director Yeo Siew Hua has cast Lee Kang-Sheng in his arthouse surveillance thriller ‘Stranger Eyes’.

Yeo Siew Hua, the Singaporean director whose “A Land Imagined” won the Locarno Film Festival’s top prize in 2018, has cast acclaimed Taiwanese actors Lee Kang-Sheng (“What Time Is It There?”, “Days”) and Wu Chien-Ho (“A Sun”) in his new “Stranger Eyes.” The film, a thriller with domestic surveillance at its core, is currently shooting. …

Though sincere and thoughtful throughout, the film gets squashed down by its own narrative integrity

A government-sponsored euthanasia program is the subject of Japanese director Chie Hayakawa's quietly provocative debut feature.

Chie Hayakawa's raw and sobering debut imagines a near-future Japan in which the elderly are encouraged to volunteer for euthanization.

Production has wrapped in both Singapore and Japan on Nicole Midori Woodford’s...