Black Magic Spices up Return of HBO’s ‘Folklore’ to Tokyo Film Festival

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 spearheaded by Singapore’s Eric Khoo as showrunner. Selected episodes from the first season of “Folklore” traveled in 2018 to a dozen festivals including Toronto, Sitges, Fantastic Fest, CinemAsia and the Tokyo International Film Festival. The 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. Japanese music superstar Seiko Matsuda… Read Full Article