Just landed: three from HIROKAZU KORE-EDA back in stock - AIR DOLL, BROKER and MONSTER. Timely, given he's just been named Singapore Intl Film Festival's Cinema Honorary Award recipient.
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@terracottadist.bsky.socialJust landed: three from HIROKAZU KORE-EDA back in stock - AIR DOLL, BROKER and MONSTER. Timely, given he's just been named Singapore Intl Film Festival's Cinema Honorary Award recipient.
@terracottadist.bsky.socialOPEN FOR PREORDER: A CHINESE GHOST STORY TRILOGY on 4K UHD - the complete wuxia-horror-romance trilogy in one limited edition boxset.
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@terracottadist.bsky.socialTwo HKFF UK screenings this week: tonight MY NAME AIN'T SUZIE (Rio Cinema, 6:30pm), tomorrow CITY LIKE WATER (Close-Up Cinema, 6pm). Festival runs 40 titles across 11 venues through 4 Oct. Tickets via hkff.uk.
@terracottadist.bsky.socialEverything that shipped in September: A BETTER TOMORROW TRILOGY (4K), RESURRECTION (Bi Gan), THE ARMOUR OF GOD COLLECTION (Jackie Chan), plus THE INUGAMI FAMILY and WICKED PRIEST COLLECTION.
@terracottadist.bsky.socialThat's the week: RESURRECTION shipped, GODZILLA MINUS ZERO got a release date, POSSIBLE LOVE won big at Venice, HOPE went wide, and two festivals landed the same weekend in Cardiff and London. Scroll back if you missed any of it.
@terracottadist.bsky.socialThree big preorders landed this week: THE POLICE STORY TRILOGY STEELBOOK (Jackie Chan, 4K, limited to 2,000), HOPE ON BLU-RAY (Na Hong-jin, Cannes-acclaimed, complete cut) and PEDICAB DRIVER (Sammo Hung, out December). All still open for preorder.
@terracottadist.bsky.socialSunday: Kotatsu Festival closes with LUPIN III: CASTLE OF CAGLIOSTRO (11:30am) + LUPIN THE IIIRD (3:30pm) in Cardiff. HKFF UK has A SUMMER'S TALE (ICA) + A FOGGY TALE (Genesis Cinema). AKIRA's last PCC show this run, 8:35pm.
@terracottadist.bsky.socialTRICKY BRAINS - Stephen Chow AND Andy Lau in one gloriously chaotic Wong Jing comedy. A trickster-for-hire's pranks spiral completely out of control.
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@terracottadist.bsky.socialBig East Asian cinema Saturday: HKFF UK at the ICA (Aviator's Wife 6pm, Shades of Silk 8:20pm) + Rio Cinema (Deadline 5pm). Japanese Film Club's SHALL WE DANCE (Regent St Cinema) and LINDA LINDA LINDA (Chiswick + Sheffield).
@terracottadist.bsky.socialCardiff today: Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival at Chapter. CHILDREN OF THE SEA (11am), a CGI masterclass (1:25pm), ALL YOU NEED IS KILL (3:30pm), Jero11 live + DOJOJI (6:30pm), AKIRA (8:15pm). BSL interpreter today only.
@terracottadist.bsky.socialMichael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Hwang Jung-min and Squid Game's HoYeon, all in one Korean monster movie - HOPE is now playing UK-wide. Na Hong-jin directs.
@terracottadist.bsky.socialBRUCE LEE: MARTIAL ARTS MASTER - a definitive documentary portrait, with interviews from his son Brandon, brother Robert, Jackie Chan and James Coburn.
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@terracottadist.bsky.socialLondon tonight: Hong Kong Film Festival UK opens at the Barbican with PALIMPSEST: THE STORY OF A NAME, director Mary Stephen in person. Also today: RUMBLE IN THE BRONX (Jackie Chan, 35mm) at Prince Charles Cinema, 12:15pm.
@terracottadist.bsky.socialPREORDERS ARE LIVE: HOPE ON BLU-RAY - Na Hong-jin's long-awaited return, complete 156-minute cut, from Neon. Same film going wide in UK cinemas today.
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@terracottadist.bsky.socialHOPE is out in UK cinemas nationwide today - ODEON, Everyman, Picturehouse. Na Hong-jin directs Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung and HoYeon alongside Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander. One of Korea's biggest openings of 2026.
@terracottadist.bsky.socialBig weekend coming for East Asian cinema in the UK: HOPE's wide nationwide release (Fri), Hong Kong Film Festival UK opens at the Barbican (Fri), and the Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival lands in Cardiff (Sat-Sun). Details through the weekend.
@terracottadist.bsky.socialNEWS: Hirokazu Koreeda's new film LOOK BACK - a decade-long friendship between two aspiring manga artists - has UK distribution via GKIDS and screens at BFI London Film Festival.
@terracottadist.bsky.socialPREORDERS ARE LIVE: THE POLICE STORY TRILOGY STEELBOOK - Jackie Chan's three defining action films in one 4K Dolby Vision set, limited to 2,000 copies.
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@terracottadist.bsky.socialGOODBYE, DRAGON INN is back in stock - Tsai Ming-Liang's 2003 masterpiece, set on a cinema's final night, told through hypnotic long takes. A defining work of Taiwanese slow cinema.
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@terracottadist.bsky.socialPENINSULA - Yeon Sang-ho's TRAIN TO BUSAN sequel. Four years after the outbreak, an ex-soldier returns to a quarantined peninsula teeming with the dead - and worse.
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