A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2000
• 137 min

Shanao who appeared out of nowhere during 10th century Japan, and whose tragic death at a young age has left numerous battle stories, is a true historical figure. Especially the stories of Shanao and Benkei whose fateful meeting a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2000
• 100 min

Returning to fiction film-making after a 13-year absence, Nagisa Oshima has overcome the handicap of a stroke (which left him partially paralyzed) and made one of his purest, saddest and most beautiful films. Carefully balanced be...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam
• 2000
• 100 min

The season of guavas ripening, Hoa attempts to climb over the fence of a big house every time he has the opportunity. This house is actually the place where Hoa grew up and where his growth stopped after falling from a guava tree ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2000
• 160 min

In a Chinese remote village untouched by war. Ma Dasan gets a visit from a mysterious stranger, who identifies himself only as "Me,” menaces the terrified him and leaves in his care two prisoners until he comes back. The prisoners...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2000
• 130 min

Perhaps conflict between a mother and her daughter-in-law is the last exit for problems concerning women than simply being an issue of personality because victims tend to hurt each other. Female filmmaker Aparna Sen attempts to he...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 2000
• 117 min

When the filmmaker was surveying the streets of Mongkok to shoot Little Cheung, the last part of Fruit Chan′s ′Trilogy of Hong Kong Handover,′ he came across a prostitute from the mainland. His unsuccessful attempt to insert her s...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2000
• 100 min

Lagarista, transporting film reels between theaters by bike, is still prevalent in the Philippines. Gregory works the Lagarista, while taking care of his grandfather ailing from Alzheimer’s. He hangs out with projectionist, Jimmy;...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 2000
• 107 min

This, last part of Fruit Chan′s ′Trilogy of Hong Kong Handover,′ is a self-portrait of Hong Kong during a period of transition seen through the eyes of a nine-year boy. Fruit Chan chooses the normal daily routines of ordinary peop...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2000
• 117 min

Reef Hunters is an allegory about a man′s ambition and despair, which in turn threatens a group and drives him to destruction. Various dramatic motives constitute the structure of this film: the dark memories of a man who has lost...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2000
• 135 min

A new film from the master of melodramas, Mani Ratnam. He combines A.R. Rahman′s superb score with beautiful dances to tell this story of ill-fated romance. Karthik and Sakthi fall in love. Though their families oppose their relat...