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ABOUT ASIA EXTREME

Sundance Channel serves up a fresh helping of gore, violence and creepy supernatural mayhem as it launches a new season of its late-night destination Asia Extreme™ in August, showcasing the sharpest of cutting-edge Asian genre fare every Saturday night at midnight. The season includes the U.S. television premiers of five films from South Korea: THE RESTLESS, SHADOWS IN THE PALACE, TAZZA: THE HIGH ROLLERS, VOICE and THE WIG. The new season of Asia Extreme premieres on August 7 at 12:00am et/pt.


In addition to their on-air presentations, the five premieres will be among the thirteen Asia Extreme titles available free from August 1- August 31 via an exclusive cable video-on-demand package. The other titles in the package are (in alphabetical order): BLOODY TIES, BLOODY REUNION, CADAVER, THE CHASER, DIVERGENCE, ICHI THE KILLER and A WORLD WITHOUT THIEVES.


Sundance Channel’s Asia Extreme premieres offer an extended dip into South Korea’s thriving and diverse genre scene, where the production values are as high as the body counts. The season kicks off on August 7 with the crime thriller TAZZA: THE HIGH ROLLERS, the second feature by rising director Dong-Hun Choi. Reviewing the film for The New York Times, Matt Zoller Seitz wrote, “‘Tazza’ is a Korean word referring to a gambler at the height of his powers. It could be applied to this film's writer and director… Bet on Tazza to entertain; you can't lose.”


The premieres continue with Ik-hwan Choi’s VOICE (August 14), an erotically charged ghost story set in an all-girls’ high school; Mee-jeung Kim’s SHADOWS IN THE PALACE (August 21), which focuses on the court women of Korea’s Joseun Dynasty to tell a tale of murder, clandestine sex and restless spirits; Dong-oh Cho’s THE RESTLESS (August 28), an over-the-top martial arts/fantasy epic about a 10th Century demon hunter; and Shin-Yeon Won’s THE WIG (September 4), a supernatural drama about a mute artist, her cancer-stricken sister and one spectacularly malevolent hairpiece.