Asian Pop Cinema: Bombay to Tokyo - Softcover

This visually explosive, engaging volume covers its topic with amazing facility. Moving from Hong Kong to China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Southeast Asia, and India, author Lee Server explores the most thrilling popular films of these regions. No genre is left untouched. While Server is clearly well rounded in cinematic history, he focuses on the action, horror, fantasy, erotic, gangster, and animated films that have emerged most recently. Packing the pages with full-color photographs and writing with wonderful enthusiasm for the medium, Server reveals the diversity with which each country and its respective directors approach their material. He also includes interviews with movie masters like José Lacaba, Eddie Romero, Tomoaki Hosoyama, and of course, John Woo, whose immigration to America in the 1990s led to the creation of Face/Off and the sequel to Mission: Impossible. Asian Pop Cinema is a delicious treat for fans of Eastern cinema, and a splendid introduction for novices in search of enlightenment. --Raphael Shargel

Lee Server is the author of Danger Is My Business and Over My Dead Body , both published by Chronicle Books.