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Oh, the excitement of the FedEx envelope arriving from L.A. Publicist Jack Song asked me to review “No Regret,” a Korean film with an upcoming U.S. theatrical run. It’s being billed as a gay Romeo and Juliet, in light of its melodramatic romance and class-differences theme. According to the press kit, “No Regret” was such a passion project that cast and crew worked for next to nothing and contributed their personal cash toward production expenses. Released in South Korea in November 2006, the buzz around this film has been building steadily.

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I decided to check out “I Survived a Japanese Game Show,” an ABC send-up featuring Tony Sano and Rome Kanda. Sano, a Japanese-American, plays something of a straight man to Kanda’s exaggerated Johnny Gilbert. It’s standard reality-TV fare—win the games, avoid eliminations, get a big cash prize. The only real twist is some “cultural learning” opportunities thrown in here and there. But the viewing left me with a few questions.

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“Gone Shopping,” written and directed by Li Lin Wee, will make its U.S. premiere at AAIFF on July 16. Films made in Singapore are a new, fast-growing addition to the Asian film market, and this one—an offbeat satire set in a shopping mall—has gotten some good buzz. But when I agreed to review this film, I didn’t know I had a personal connection to Singapore.

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Hey Jim, you’re cool because you’re old like me : ) Check out my interview with Jim Chu, filmmaker and owner of White Rabbit Lounge in NYC:

Jim Chu and White Rabbit