New Currents

• Japan
• 2007
• 111min

A woman turns the rooftop of a worn down Love Hotel into a park and opens it up to the public. She gives a glimmer of hope to the lonely hearts of the women from various age groups whom she encounters there. 13-year-old Mika, who...

New Currents

• China,Korea
• 2007
• 97min

An impressive feature debut of Korean?Chinese director Guang Hao Jin. The film describes a man’s life who lives a divine punishment both physically and mentally. Zezhu loses both of his arms and lives alone in a mountain. He meets...

New Currents

• China
• 2007
• 79min

A woman confesses before the camera about an appalling sexual experience that she had undergone when she was younger, and various people state their opinions on her dreadful nightmare. Through the documentary-style film, director ...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2007
• 80min

20 year-old Hee-cheol has been making his living doing deliveries for a restaurant ever since graduating from high school. His father, who comes home only once in a while, is drenched in alcohol and violence. Therefore only his gr...

New Currents

• China
• 2007
• 101min

This is the feature debut of Shangjun Cai as a director, after writing scripts like Shower and Sunflower, which were directed by ZHANG Yang. The film describes the conflict and reconciliation between a father and son. The father, ...

New Currents

• Taiwan
• 2007
• 119min

God and the dog each get respect and sympathy. Then why can’t a human get redemption? Ching, a hand model, cannot get over the sadness of losing her child; an alcoholic native man Biung, his wife A-Mei, and their daughter who live...

New Currents

• Japan
• 2007
• 85min

Hasegawa is writing a sequel to his previous novel, based on a true character who murdered 9 people on the street, with the premise that the killer had a brother. The main character in his new novel, Harumi, drops out of high scho...

New Currents

• Thailand
• 2007
• 90min

Damage done by the Tsunami has gone out of sight but is still spreading beneath the surface. Aditya Assarat’s HD feature Wonderful Town is set in a small declining village that wasn’t directly affected by Tsunami but located near ...

New Currents

• Korea
• 2007
• 95min

Director Yoon Seongho has been representing a new style and ideas of the digital generation through many digital shorts. The lead character Young-jae, who resembles the director, hopes to become a movie director. However, he break...

New Currents

• Malaysia
• 2007
• 97min

Seng Tat Liew’s feature debut is about a father who finally becomes aware of his children and their emotions. Sui is too busy with work to pay attention to his two sons Li Ahh and Li Ohm. The two boys have speech impediments and a...