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Falling Up Waking Down

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Falling Up Waking Down
  • Taiwan
  • 1997
  • 102min

This is a story about love and death. One day, two lovers meet to commit suicide together. The man survives, and in fear of being accused of murder, he goes out to buy more sleeping pills. Therein begins this story intertwined ...

Wind Echoing In My Being (Trilogy)

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Wind Echoing In My Being (Trilogy)
  • Korea
  • 1997
  • 113min

Measured time and the time of consciousness which flows inside of us intertwine into a chronology called "life." This three part film follows man through the stages of childhood, youth and old age, focusing on the subjective pa...

Just Another Day

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Just Another Day
  • Japan
  • 1997
  • 118min

Kono is from a small town who came to Tokyo with big dreams. Takase is quitting his delivery job to join Kono in dealing drugs. Takase introduces Kono to Nanae, an illustrator also from the provinces with dreams of her own. Kono ...

Made in Hong Kong

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Made in Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong
  • 1997
  • 100min

In Hong Kong, an industrialized and ultramodern city, youngsters do not take life seriously, the conditions of education and family is pernicious, values are disregarded, and alienation rules. The life of teenagers in Hong Kong is...

Motel Cactus

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Motel Cactus
  • Korea
  • 1997
  • 91min

Almost half of the lights that fill the Seoul nightscapes are motel signboards. It is in these places that many spend their youth. Hyun-Ju is sentimental about her memories at the motel, and Min-Gu finds Hyun-Ju a burden. To these...

My Secret Cache

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My Secret Cache
  • Japan
  • 1997
  • 83min

A young woman bank teller passionately in love with money becomes a local hero after being taken hostage by bank robbers. Her efforts to locate the money abandoned by the now dead bank robbers leads her to study geology, scuba-di...

Paper Airplanes

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Paper Airplanes
  • Iran
  • 1997
  • 90min

A father-son team travel into the wilds of northern Iran to screen 16mm films for the local inhabitants in this moody and beautiful portrait of village life. The marriage of a reluctant bride, the problems of an elderly disabled ...

Green Fish

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Green Fish
  • Korea
  • 1997
  • 111min

The disintegration of family that has become a common Koereasocial phenomenon is expressed through the two character of this film. Having just finished military service, Makdoong dreams of his family members living together as the...

After the Crescent

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After the Crescent
  • Hong Kong
  • 1997
  • 118min

The big city of Hong Kong is a splendid place, but a desert to the young, During the course of one day, Meme has many experiences and encounters people to talk to, but receives no consolation for her loneliness. On the contrary, s...

Fun Bar Karaoke

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Fun Bar Karaoke
  • Thailand
  • 1997
  • 100min

The two faces of Bangkok. Modernized by appearances, its citizens think in ancient ways. Pu works at 24-hour convenience store, and is plagued by a recurring dream of her dead mother building a house. Pu seeks a fortune teller who...

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