If The Raid taught us anything, it’s that the Indonesian martial art Silat looks amazing on camera and you don’t need a Hollywood-size budget to make a great action film. Twitch reports on a gritty new Malaysian film that looks to be taking these lessons to heart. Plot and cast details are scarce, but the title roughly translates to One on One. You won’t want to miss the first trailer. The … Continue reading →

A New Year means New Releases, so let’s get cracking! There are plenty of films coming out this week on Blu-ray and DVD. If you’re interested in any of the following titles, you can support the site by ordering through our affiliate. We appreciate it! Here are your Blu-ray and DVD releases for the week of 1/08/13: ASIAN CINEMA The Assassins (Blu-ray/DVD) – in this 2012 Chinese-language historical epic, Chow Yun Fat … Continue reading →

MOVIE: AICN has posted the first image from Tommy Wirkola’s Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, a dark and action-packed take on the classic fairy tale. The film stars Jeremy Renner (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol) and Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace) as the titular brother and sister duo, who are now all grown up and hunting witches as a daytime job. Director Wirkola is most famous for his Norwegian zombie movie … Continue reading →

In today’s most shocking bit of news, it appears that a sequel to director Bong Joon-ho’s Korean monster movie The Host has long been in development. Even stranger still, it remains unclear just who is directing the movie. Bong Joon-ho is off working on his first English-language production Snowpiercer, so perhaps the sequel duties were handed off to a special FX artist or second unit director from the first film. We’ll … Continue reading →

It’s the end of one year and the beginning of another – you know what the means: time for Top Ten lists. But rather than pick our favorite movies of 2012, we thought we’d do something a little bit different. So Cityonfire.com has compiled our list of favorite Asian films released on Blu-ray and DVD in 2012. That’s right: it doesn’t matter what year the movie was made, just that … Continue reading →

Happy Holidays and New Year from your friends at Cityonfire.com. This week sees several staggered releases since “Looper” arrives on 12/31, but some titles are coming out between the 28th and the 1st. Hopefully that’s not too confusing! If you’re interested in any of these titles, you can support the site by ordering through our affiliate. We appreciate it! Here are your Blu-ray and DVD releases for the week of 1/01/12: … Continue reading →

Well Go USA continues to prep The Assassins for a January 8th, 2013 release on Blu-ray and DVD. Now you can check out the official US trailer for the movie. This historical epic should appeal to fans of titles like White Vengeance and other Three Kingdoms-era pictures. In the film, Hong Kong movie legend Chow Yun Fat stars as the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao. His military … Continue reading →

CJ Entertainment is thrilled to announce the North American release of The Tower on 1/11/13! Already stirring up intense interest in Korea where it opens as the holiday blockbuster offering for this Christmas, The Tower features a star-studded ensemble cast including Sul Kyung-gu (No Mercy, Haeundale), Son Ye-jin (A Moment to Remember, Spellbound) and Kim Sang-kyung (Memories of Murder). Interwoven dramatic storylines, heartfelt acting, and show-stopping pyrotechnics make The Tower a bold new addition to the disaster action movie … Continue reading →

Film distributor 5 Points Pictures is pleased to announce the two-disc, special-edition DVD release of Going By the Book will be available on April 16, 2013. Writer, director and producer Jang Jin (Guns and Talks, Righteous Ties) and actor Jung Jae-young (Moss, Righteous Ties) reteam for this South Korean bank-heist comedy, which is helmed by first-time director Ra Hee-chan (Mr. Idol) and features supporting performances by Son Byung-ho (The Good, … Continue reading →

Fans of the 2008 Korean thriller The Chaser were eager to see what director Na Hong-jin would do for a follow-up. Their anticipation soon turned to disappointment, however, when it was announced that 20th Century Fox’s Region 1 release of The Yellow Sea would be DVD-only and cut for content by about three minutes. Fox even went so far as to ensure that the movie’s Korean Blu-ray release didn’t contain … Continue reading →

This is one of the few weeks we can recall without any bonafied Asian films being released, but perhaps it’s best to make use of the time for some last minute holiday shopping. If you’re interested in any of these titles, you can support the site by ordering through our affiliate. We appreciate it! Here are your Blu-ray and DVD releases for the week of 12/18/12: MARTIAL ARTS Forced to Fight … Continue reading →

THE MOVIE: Well, hell. Hollywood has a new cops-and-crooks picture coming out and you couldn’t ask for a better cast than this: Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Nick Nolte, and Sean Penn headline a roster that also includes Emma Stone, Robert Patrick, Michael Pena, and Giovanni Ribisi. You’d basically have to pay me not to see this movie. The film is called Gangster Squad and it tells the true-to-life-story of how … Continue reading →

It’s the holiday season. This week of releases was custom-designed for fans of all things cult and obscure. So let’s get cracking. If you’re interested in any of these titles, you can support the site by ordering through our affiliate. We appreciate it! Here are your Blu-ray and DVD releases for the week of 12/11/12: ASIAN CINEMA Doomsday Book (Blu-ray/DVD) – this 2012 mind-bending sci-fi triptych arrives out of South Korea from the directors … Continue reading →

While American audiences continue to go wild for Twilight, movie-goers in South Korea have embraced their own ‘supernatural’ love story. A Werewolf Boy is a fantasy/romance film currently breaking box office records in that region, with over 6.5 million admissions. The story follows a young woman whose family adopts a ‘feral boy’ into their home. The boy displays an uncommon devotion to his new kin but soon draws the fear … Continue reading →