A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand,Japan
• 2003
• 96min

In the belly of Bangkok's underworld, in a dilapidated hotel, four strangers' lives are about to change...forever. As fate spins its strange web, the destinies of a desperate drug dealer, a young runaway, a beautiful assassin and...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2003
• 95min

A romantic comedy from Indonesia, The Seventh House is the new film by director Rudi Soedjarwo, who introduced Whats with Love? at last year′s Pusan International Film Festival. The story revolves around two old-friends who own a ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• SriLanka
• 2003
• 108min

From a history wracked by war comes three journeys of common people. August Sun is a film that captures war′s deadly impact on the individual. Several voyages travel on three axes: A family that abandoned their home in fear of pur...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2003
• 86min

A favorite subject of filmmakers is ′youth′, especially stories of young people struggling for love in their suffocating reality. Deep Breath, beginning with a scene of a body pulled out from a river, depicts the stories of youth ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2003
• 120min

Nine prisoners, most of who are sentenced to hard time for murder, escape from prison to look for a treasure rumored to be hidden at an elementary school at Mount Fuji. In a car rented from a friend, they head for the school, stea...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2003
• 105min

Jairaj and Ratna, famous traditional dancers, are very worried about their daughter Lata′s upcoming debut and also her marriage. Lata′s fiance, Viswas, is a nice young man from a wealthy merchant family but knows nothing about dan...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan,Korea
• 2003
• 98in

Hideo Nakata, famous for Ring and Dark Water, has directed another film, but this time it is not a scary story. Hideo Nakata pays a great deal of respect to Japanese film productions and the people working there. Ken Miyama, the p...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2003
• 90min

Robinson′s Crusoe depicts the deep emptiness that a man living in Taipei experiences. The director pays keen attention to the disrupted city life like his senior directors Tsai Ming-liang or Edward Yang in the Taiwanese new wave c...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2003
• 123min

Magnifico depicts the story of a 9-year-old boy whose day is full of endless work. His grandmother ls diagnosed with terminal cancer, his mother limps in exhaustion from carrying his little sister, and his father can′t make enough...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2003
• 92min

From the 5th generation filmmakers to the recent Independent filmmakers, there has not been a film that portrays the darker side of Chinese society as severely as this one, in which Li Yang shows how poverty lies beneath the rapid...