Special Programs in Focus

• Sai Yoichi
• Japan
• 1998
• 108min

This is Choi Yang-Il first film, whose All Under the Moon(93) put him in the ranks of New Japanese Cinema. Rock figure Uchida Yuya writes and stars in this true story. A police office lives alone on the 10th floor. Unable to repay...

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• Rakhshan Bani-etemad
• Iran
• 1998
• 95min

Rakhshan Bani-Eternad is not only the most acclaimed Iranian female filmmakers, but one of top directors of Iranian cinema. Her career began during the 1979 Revolution when her deep commitment to social issues led to her involveme...

Korean Panorama

• Hur Jin-Ho
• Korea
• 1998
• 97min

Drinking with friends, writing instructions on operating the photo machine for his father and making his last portraits - all are last acts for the terminally ill photographer Jung-Won. In the midst of closing the last chapter of ...

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• Li Shaohong
• China
• 1998
• 158min

Set against the backdrop of post-Tianamen Beijing, Family portrait is an intimate picture of modern day life in urban China. If Bloody Morning is still reminiscent of certain traits common to most fifth generation filmmakers, then...

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• Kazama Shiori
• Japan
• 1998
• 114min

Three young half brothers, Ichitaro, Takeshi and Tsuguo, are moving from a traditional Japanese house near a river to the suburbs. With little experience living together as a happy family, their relationship gradually transforms o...

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• Park Kwang-Su
• Korea
• 1998
• 101min

The island a place where pain cannot be relieved. With the tragedy of an event of forty years ago still fresh in their minds, the inhabitants of the island block a boat carrying the body of an exiled inhabitant. The past tragedy i...

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• Kim Soo-Kil
• Japan
• 1998
• 100min

Kim Soo-Gil is a director with great talent as a screenwriter. Perhaps living on a foreign island has endowed him with this gift. He wrote Yun′s Town (89), directed by Korean-Japanese filmmaker Kim Woo-Sun. In this film, the frien...

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• Lee Myung-Se
• Korea
• 1998
• 111min

This film is a harmonious fusion of Director Lee Myung-Se′s romantic humanism and cinematographer Yoo′s sober realism, which resulted in the birth of a new kind of Korean film. My Love, My Bride is the tale of Young-Min and Mi-You...

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• Chen Jofei
• Taiwan
• 1998
• 58min

Set against the city landscape of Taipei, Chen jofei explores the fears and anxieties of a closet gay young writer. The "safe" world that the lives in is disrupted by the advances of a daring young man who refuses to compromise wi...

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• Christine Choy
• U.S.
• 1998
• 82min

On a hot summer night, 1983. A young Chinese engineer Vincent Chin was killed on a street in downtown Detroit. The killers, Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz were found not guilty for first degree murder, instead they were fined $3,00...