Edmund Yeo Trailers
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Edmund Yeo is a Malaysian filmmaker living and working in Malaysia and Japan. His short films, KINGYO (Venice Film Festival 2009) and INHALATION (Sonje Award winner, Busan International Film Festival 2010) secured his reputation as a promising filmmaker. In 2017, he won the Best Director award at the Tokyo International Film Festival for his sophomore feature AQERAT (We, The Dead).
In 2020, he directed the Japanese-Malaysian co-production MALU which co-starred Malaysian stars Sherlyn Seo and Mayjune Tan and Japanese stars Masatoshi Nagase and Kiko Mizuhara.
His latest film is MOONLIGHT SHADOW (2021), an adaptation of internationally-acclaimed author Banana Yoshimoto’s novella starring Japanese superstar Nana Komatsu.
He's also known for his highly acclaimed collaborations with Malaysian director Woo Ming Jin, having produced, co-wrote or edited the films that Woo had directed, like WOMAN ON FIRE LOOKS FOR WATER (Orrizonti section, Venice Film Festival 2009), THE TIGER FACTORY (Directors' Fortnight, Cannes Film Fest 2010), THE SECOND LIFE OF THIEVES, and STONE TURTLE (Locarno Film Festival 2022 FIPRESCI Prize winner)
Most Popular Edmund Yeo Trailers
Total trailers found: 27
16 December 2010
A young woman returns to her birthplace for an ex-classmate's funeral. She and a friend lose themselves in melancholy.
04 August 2022
Zahara, a stateless refugee, lives on a small remote island in Malaysia, where she makes a living selling turtle eggs.
12 January 2009
At an isolated fishing village of Malaysia, a woman’s relationship with her young daughter descends into a path of self-destruction and abuse when she begins to receive a series of strange and mysterious letters from her long-absent husband.
24 October 2014
When a rare earth plant is being built near a coastal town, its inhabitants fall into despair, fearful of its radioactive effects.
28 October 2017
A young Chinese Malaysian woman becomes involved in the sordid world of human trafficking as she tries to make a better life for herself with a dream of moving to Taiwan.
17 August 2013
3 horror shorts from Malaysia I Miss You Two: School life is one of the most interesting moments in a lifetime.
13 November 2020
Mysterious poetic story of long-lasting discord between beautiful sisters unfolds in Malaysia and Japan.
01 January 2010
A young Chinese woman living in Tokyo is haunted by a dark family past. A doctor is torn between his job and his personal feelings.
03 December 2009
A university professor decides to go for a tour in Akihabara, guided by a young woman dressed up like a French maid.
10 September 2021
Satsuki lost her boyfriend, Hitoshi, in a car accident. Unable to face up to his death, she spends her days unable to sleep properly.
04 October 2015
Local filmmaker Woo Ming Jin and his crew traversed across Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore to find 'Seruan Merdeka' (1947) - the first film made in Malaya post-WWII, and also the first film in the history of Malaysian cinema to feature a biracial cast of Malays and Chinese.
18 September 2010
Unhappy farm worker Mei borrows some money from her boyfriend Seng, boards a ship to Japan and leaves him broken-hearted.
22 December 2011
An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema.
28 October 2017
A documentary following the production of Isao Yukisada's Pigeon which looks into filmmaking, unity, fate, and history through the influence of the late Yasmin Ahmad.
11 October 2012
A woman meets another identical to her...
21 October 2021
Grieving over the death of an ex-girlfriend, Jia Le moves in to stay with an actor friend. The actor, however, often suffers spasms of pain in his body as he prepares to move to China for a better life.
26 January 2010
A filmmaker's production notes recall a low-budget science fiction film he was trying to make with the collaboration of a female acquaintance.
19 July 2008
A young woman receives a series of letters from a friend that provokes thoughts on the passage of time and how it affects the way we view the world.
08 August 2009
Divided into two parallel stories. In "Afternoon River," Grace tries to go through her mundane everyday work while ignoring the incessant ringing of her cell phone.
09 September 2025
Ali and Amir are inseparable fraternal twins with a telepathic bond. The brothers are forced to fend for themselves when their father abandons them after remarrying a younger bride.
21 May 2010
Ping Ping is 19 and wants to go to Japan to work in a car parts company. She's under the guardianship of her aunt, Madame Tien, who shuffles her between two jobs - working in a pig farm, and cleaning dishes in a rundown restaurant.
13 February 2020
After Hassan discovers Zidik living alone on the streets, he takes him in and cares for him like a son.
12 September 2009
Father and son wrestle with love in a small Malaysian fishing village. While father looks up an old lover he should have married years ago, his son faces a dilemma.
17 April 2008
A young boy ponders one of the greatest mysteries of his life: just why is his mother's cooking so appalling? His father claims his mother lost her cooking skills when she gave birth to him.
24 March 2008
Follows the everyday life of Ali, a 15-year-old boy who has to come to terms with growing up with a single father and a nosey neighbour, seemingly eyeing for his affection.
03 October 2014
Village chief Tan is busy. His wife and best friend Lai have mysteriously disappeared and an undocumented worker is dead.
10 December 2011
A dreamlike cinematic poem about a family. A boy runs an errand for his mother and realizes that she is dying.
