NOV. 18 LOS ANGELES & SAN FRANCISCO

“A nasty, profane and utterly bracing black comedy … as political satires go, this is almost up there with ‘Dr. Strangelove,’” is the tagline Glenn Kenny of Premiere magazine provided for the controversial South Korean film “The President’s Last Bang.” This “bloody farce” (J. Hoberman of the Village Voice) set on the 1979 night of the assassination of President Park Chung Hee by director Im Sang Soo opens at L.A.’s Laemmle Fairfax Cinemas and S.F.’s Balboa Theater.

It will also screen at the Denver International Film Festival, which runs on Nov. 18 and 19, and will open in Seattle at the Grand Illusion on Dec. 9.

NOV. 19 & 20 LOS ANGELES

The Asian Hip-Hop Summit 4 brings you two days of rap, dance and DJing, hosted this year by DJ K-Sly and Dumbfoundead.

At the Jeet Kune Flow Camp located at 625 S. Lafayette Park Place (at Wilshire and Lafayette Park Place). From 7 to 10 p.m. on the 19th and 4 to 10 p.m. on the 20th; admission is $5 for each day, with proceeds to benefit Green Pastures Youth Center (www.green1004.org). For more information and a complete schedule, visit www.asiaticempire.com.

David Lee and Linda star in “American Monsters 2,” with its retellings of the Grimm fairy tales.

Through NOV. 23 IRVINE, CALIF.

The University Art Gallery of UC Irvine has on display “Fallayavada: Bahc Yiso Project and Tribute,” an exhibition of artist Bahc Yiso, one of the most recognized Korean artists of the 1990s who died in 2004. The centerpiece is the world premiere of “Fallayavada,” a room-sized multimedia installation composed of an oval-shaped wooden structure upon which viewers can sit and view a video projection with images Bahc called “vertical landscapes — vertical flow of time and space” captured from a video camera dropped from a plane.

The University Art Gallery is located on campus, and the hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays, noon to 5 p.m. For more information, call (949) 824-3508. Admission is free.

Through NOV. 27 NEW YORK CITY

Playwright Lloyd Suh directs the world premiere of “Cowboy v. Samurai,” a play by Michael Golamco produced by the OBIE-winning National Asian-American Theatre Company. A contemporary retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac set in the mythic American West, it stars Timothy Davis, Joel de la Fuente, C.S. Lee and Hana Moon. When a beautiful Asian American woman moves to Breakneck, Wyo., everyone’s in love — the samurai who doesn’t know who he is, the cowboy with the chew and blue jeans, and especially the Cyrano, an Asian American hero who doesn’t stand a chance.

At the Rattlestick Theater (located at 224 Waverly Place, between 11th and Perry in the West Village), with performances Tuesdays through Saturdays at 7 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays at 3 p.m. Tickets are $19, and can be purchased by calling (212) 352-3101 or online at www.theatermania.com. For more information, visit www.naatco.org.