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The History of Film & Jing’an Villa in Shanghai

Last month I spent a week in Shanghai, just before one of the harshest heatwaves in…

A friend recently recommended me a visual treat of a documentary, Kochuu, that looks at the…

Shanghai’s skyline got to show off it’s better side in last years Skyfall, but photographer Rob…

Death. Life. Birth. Future. Present. Past. Love. Hope. Courage. An 1849 diary of an ocean voyage…

Living inside one of China’s behemoth cities is a humbling experience, such is the enormity of…

Online food documentary series The Perennial Plate spent two weeks travelling around Japan to create a stomach…

What do you do if you’re in charge of a multinational chaebol and have a few million…

I’m really looking forward to seeing Japan in a Day which opened last week at the…

We’ve looked at footage of Hong Kong in the 1930’s before but here’s some more fascinating video from…

If you enjoyed the visual and musical tour-de-forces of Koyaanisqatsi and Baraka in the 80’s and…

Another visceral portrait of Hong Kong, this time by Lam Hok Tak, a student from City University of…

A stunning time-lapse video by Spot On Idea (a production company in Hong Kong). Sometimes I…