A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 1998
• 67min

Within the bleak confines of the city, director Iwai Shunji discovers a serene beauty, like cherry blossoms blowing in the wind, which he presents in this contemporary urban fairy tale. The film follows the female protagonist, Uzu...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 1998
• 93min

It is seven days to the 21st century and endless rains wreak havoc. With the onset of an epidemic, the government orders tenants to move out. Residents refuse despite utilities being cut off. One man does not call the plumber so t...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 1998
• 96min

A single woman called "Mama Boss" opens a rice noodle shop in Taipei and reminisces about the good old days before she fled to Taiwan from China with customers who are mostly immigrants from her hometown. When her three favorite c...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 1998
• 90min

It is impressive to see in this film the smile of the Iranian boy, Farhad, who is too young to know what despair means. This film doesn`t present a world shown through children`s hearts as in other Iranian films. Rather, it indict...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan,Japan
• 1998
• 118min

Alienation and anxiety seem to take on special meaning as director Lin Cheng-Sheng follows Edward Yang and Tsai Ming-Liang around the streets of Taipei. Lin′s Taipei is a dark and depressing city where healthy relationships are so...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• SriLanka,Japan
• 1998
• 74min

For 13 years in northern Sri Lanka, the Tamils have been at war with government troops for an independent state. The blind Wannihami lives in a village with his daughter Sunanda, while his son Bandara is away fighting as a governm...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 1998
• 91min

The appeal of a film lies at the most basic level: Not in elaborate camerawork or in the beauty of the images, but in the essence of the story. After his first feature, Knock Out, a sensation during the fledgling industry years, h...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 1998
• 110min

An outstanding student much loved in his village, Miguel was sent off on a trip to the U.S. with pride and great expectations. But now he’s returned ­ not as Miguel but as Michelle, no longer a man but a woman. How the quiet villa...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 1998
• 114min

In a remote fishing village in the 1950’s, Pepito, son of the island’s only midwife, grows up learning his mother’s trade. As he grows older, he becomes uncomfortable with this traditional woman’s occupation. The story follows his...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 1998
• 87min

A jewelry store heist staged by a band of inexperienced Hong Kong holdup artists goes badly wrong, leading to a high caliber shootout. The elite Organized Crime Bureau team headed by Captain Chung King Ken (Simon Yau) is forced to...