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Jack Kao

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Amoeba (Tan Siyou, 2025)
Tan Siyou

Amoeba (Tan Siyou, 2025)

Director Tan Siyou’s debut film Amoeba makes a fitting companion to Yamashita Nobuhiro’s Linda Linda Linda, which I wrote about in this space a week ago. Both films concern the coming of age of young high school aged women who filter their varied teen experiences through the media
10 Sep 2025 4 min read
My Lucky Star (Dennie Gordon, 2013)
Zhang Ziyi

My Lucky Star (Dennie Gordon, 2013)

In 2009, Zhang Ziyi starred and produced the ultra-manic-pixie Sophie’s Revenge, a romcom in which she plays a cartoonist that nonetheless lacks a tenth of the nuance or emotional maturity of Caroline in the City. It was a big hit. In 2013, she made a prequel, sort of, in
07 Nov 2014 3 min read
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