Premiering TV and streaming series at film festivals is becoming a familiar route for a growing number of ambitious shows. Few more so than HBO Asia’s horror anthology “Folklore,” which is spearhea…
Selected episodes from the first season of “Folklore” traveled in 2018 to a dozen festivals including Toronto, Sitges, Fantastic Fest, CinemAsia and theThe second season is returning to Tokyo and bowing two episodes before moving quickly into streaming from Nov. 14. Both episodes are directed by women. And both have Japanese connections.
While Matsuda says that the story is based on an experience that she personally lived through, Khoo also describes it as the most romantic of the season’s six episodes. Khoo was instrumental in persuading Matsuda to realize her ambition and direct, while also swaying rising actor Morisaki Win to star.
The other ‘Folklore” episode to show in Tokyo, “The Excursion” is directed by Singapore-based youngster Nicole Midori Woodford. The story features an insomniac and stressed-out mother whose husband is rarely around and whose son is talking to an imaginary friend. When the woman starts seeing a familiar ghostly presence, she understands a need to save herself and her family before it is too late.
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