Yayoi Lena Winfrey

Navigating one’s teen years is challenging, especially when it’s important to feel a sense of belonging. When being different is part of a tumultuous adolescence, it’s even worse for young adults who are multi-ethnic, trans-racially...

His English is impeccable, his French is impressive, and his Hebrew will blow you away, but Togo Igawa was born in Shinjuku, Tokyo and grew up speaking Japanese. As an international star, Igawa has acted...

A spin-off from the sci-fi anime television series, “Trigun: Badlands Rumble” reintroduces its primary characters against a landscape that appears to be the American West in outer space. Based on the original story line...

Apart Together In 1949 war-torn Shanghai, a couple is forced apart when a Nationalist soldier escapes to Taiwan leaving behind his pregnant girlfriend. In 1987, the elderly former soldier returns for her. Ignoring the fact...

“Bummer Summer”, a small film about a teenage boy, his home-from-college brother and their girlfriends, is not particularly dramatic, but completely absorbing. Credit goes to cinematographer Nandan Rao for capturing its mood so eloquently.

Only 17 years-old, “Dilawar” is growing up way too fast. Living in India-occupied Kashmir, he’s on the verge of becoming a bad boy until he gets thrown into jail for doing something stupid. Realizing that he’s on the road to self-destruction, he tries to straighten up — but righteousness seems to elude him.

Family Misfortune, Religious Rituals and the Working World.

With so many films currently in the mix, there’s good reason to get your flicks fix on. Right now, a slew of features by and about Asians and APA’s are in release. The “Green Hornet”,...

Arguably, the most mixed-up, multicultural movie ever filmed, “The Warrior’s Way” combines a Korean heartthrob hero, an African American dwarf, several crusty Caucasian cowboys, some meek Mexicans and a slew of faceless fighters. All of these comic book-like characters come together in a frontier town inhabited by colorful circus performers who are periodically terrorized by renegade confederate soldiers.

“TIBET IN SONG” It’s hard to ignore the missing name in the space for Tibetan Location Manager during the onscreen credit roll at the end of “Tibet in Song”. By listing it as “Anonymous”, the...