Category: 2020 Films
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่ถ FIRST IMPRESSIONS ่ถ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Neither Leaving nor Staying: The Limbo of KEFF’s Taipei Suicide Story” by Anna Moon KEFF (director). Taipei Suicide Story ๅฎ็ ๆ ่, 2020. 45 min. KEFF showed us a room with…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Neither Leaving nor Staying: The Limbo of KEFF’s ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ก๐๐๐ฆ” by Anna Moon](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/fe77dba67200a355a41381460edbb9edaed989b78c9a45e287fdbf6eae171872.jpg?w=1024)
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่ถ FIRST IMPRESSIONS ่ถ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] “The Taste of Loneliness: On Joseph Hsu’s Little Big Women” by Ray Singh Joseph Chen-Chieh Hsu (director). Little Big Women (ๅญคๅณ), 2020. 124 min. East Asian cinema has always possessed…
![[REVIEW] “The Taste of Loneliness: On Joseph Hsu’s ๐ฟ๐๐ก๐ก๐๐ ๐ต๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐” by Ray Singh](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/89348295_2924687147593664_9140641139848642560_o.jpg?w=1024)
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่ถ FIRST IMPRESSIONS ่ถ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS Editor’s note: Laurehl Onyx B. Cabiles considers the films Big Fish and Little Fish in relation to his father and the Filipino seafood dish kinilaw, using cinema as a lens for…
![[ESSAY] โ๐ต๐๐ ๐น๐๐ โ, ๐ฟ๐๐ก๐ก๐๐ ๐น๐๐ โ, & The Fake Legend of Kinilawโ by Laurehl Onyx B. Cabiles](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/big-fish-little-fish.png?w=940)
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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Akiko Ohku (director), Hold Me Back, 2020. 133 min. Akiko Ohku is best known for directing and co-writing Tremble All You Want and Hold Me Back, two films…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Feeling Seen: Akiko Ohkuโs ๐ป๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ต๐๐๐ and the Solitude of Modern Women” by Danica QP](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/hold-me-back-film-cha.jpg?w=1024)
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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Lรช Minh Hoร ng (director), Saigon in the Rain, 2020. โWritten on a rainless Saigon day Urban life has long provided cinema with a stage upon which to capture…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] โLรช Minh Hoร ng’s ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐
๐๐๐: A Resonance of Youth, Migration, and Urban Dreamsโ by Red Po](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/maxresdefault.jpg?w=1024)
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๐ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Kim Ki-duk (director), The Isle, 2000. 90 min. Some films are like waves that gently lap against the shores of our memories; others, however, jolt us by revealing…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] โ๐โ๐ ๐ผ๐ ๐๐ at 25: Kim Ki Dukโs Blooming Poem on the Island of Solitudeโ by G.A. Gowtham](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/f_1_the_isle_01c5e5da4c.jpeg?w=1024)
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๐ย RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS๐ย RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Naomi Kawase, True Mothers, 2020. 140 min. Are human faces a resource? Are they a commodity? Can they be picked like grapes and harvested like grain? Can they be…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “The Face Of Integrity In Naomi Kawase’s ๐๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐กโ๐๐๐ ” by Anders Kรธlle](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/true-mothers.jpg?w=708)
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