A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan,China,Hong Kong
• 2004
• 112min

Evident from its title, 20:30:40 talks about the love and lives of women in their 20s, 30s and 40s. The film follows one woman from each generation as she must make important decisions in her ife. We learn that the idea taught to ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2004
• 114min

69 Sixty Nine, Lee Sang-il′s third feature following Blue Chong and Border Lines is based on the novel by Ryu Murakami. The film′s opening sequence, filled with 60s′ rock music and American pop culture-style animation, summarizes ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China
• 2004
• 85min

Jiang Hu is a new take on Hong Kong Cinema′s celebrated triad genre. Wong Ching-po, a director of independent films, has successfully filmed Jiang Hu by adding modern touches to traditional gangster films. Right after the birth of...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2004
• 98min

Tragedy is not over yet. Bahman Ghobadi, who has been continuously talking about the sad history and fate of the Kurds, turns to tell another bitter story of the American attack on Irag. Many people who have been suffering under S...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2004
• 161min

Black Friday is based on the terrible terror attacks on Bombay in 1999 - dubbed the Indian 9/11. The tragic religious fight between Muslims and Hindus left 300 dead and 800 wounded. Director Anurag Kashyap takes a realistic and c...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2004
• 98min

16-year-old Ipen sends money to her family from her job of babysitting 9-year-old Dajun, who has a huge hole in the heart caused by his parents divorce. While Dajun hates seeing the fat Ipen instead of the mother he misses in his...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2004
• 100min

Middle-aged widower Xu Daquin never felt that he lived a day for himself. Since his youth, he always wanted to go to Yunnam, near Tibet. He imagines what his life would have been like bad he lived there. This imaginative "what if"...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 2004
• 124min

Butterfly is a love story. To be exact, a homosexual love story of a woman who has to deal with her dual sexual orientation. Flavia, a 30 year-old high school teacher, leads quite an ordinary life at home and at school. One day wh...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,France
• 2004
• 95min

Life is, sometimes, like a bondage you can never be free of. This is why many myths and legends have commonly used ′original sin′ and ′cruel fate of life′ as their main theme. In that sense, Guansheng′s destiny depicted in Day and...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2004
• 86min

In the war zone of Kurdistan bordering Iran, on one side, a group of soldiers are searching for landmines. On the other side, a girl is shepherding her sheep. The two that never seem to get alona are always on full alert. They liv...