Wide Angle

• Yu Lik Wai
• Hong Kong
• 1996
• 44.3min

Three provincial girls arrive in Beijing. Each seeks success in the capital. Yu Quin works as a bar hostess in a night-club and Hu Jin, as a bit player and model in a Beijing studi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Nonzee NIMIBUTR
• Thailand
• 1997
• 100min

40 years ago gangs ruled Bangkok, Dang Bireley and Young Gangsters is a classic gangster tale full of drop-dead beauties, violent shoot-outs, and tough gangsters with hearts of gol...

Wide Angle

• Sandi Tan,Kelvin Tong,Jasmine Ng Kin Kia
• Singapore
• 1996
• 13min

A day in the gastronomic life of a Singaporean man whose insatiable taste for all kinds of food consumed in all kinds of places leads him to strange and wondrous situations. The fi...

Wide Angle

• Nicolas Cuche
• France
• 1996
• 16min

Two hooligans hang around in their neighborhood to do wrong. They decide to snatch an old lady’s handbag.

Wide Angle

• Seiichi Motohashi
• Japan
• 1997
• 118min

This documentary takes place in Belarush, In the area adjacent to where the Chernobyl disaster took place. Under lush natural conditions, the simple villagers grow potato and grain...

Korean Panorama

• Song Neung-Han
• Korea
• 1997
• 108min

Comedy in Korean cinema has never been very successful in conveying a political consciousness. The same dilemma awaits this film as probes into the true meaning of transcending the...

Open Cinema

• Masayuki Suo
• Japan
• 1996
• 136min

Shall We Dance? portrays the pervasive psychology of middle-aged men in Japan who suffer loss of identity from working day and night to support their families, losing time for them...

Open Cinema

• Xie Jin
• China
• 1997
• 129min

Hong Kong was returned to China on July 1,1997. In order to commemorate this historical event, Xie Jin made an epic on the Opium War,a disgraceful event in Chinese history. Establi...

Open Cinema

• Ridly Scott
• United States
• 1997
• 125min

Navy Intelligence officer Lt. Jordan O＇Neil is selected as a test case to be the first woman allowed to train with the Navy SEALs. Selected for her courage, skills, and level heade...

Opening Film

• Wayne Wang
• France,UK,United States
• 1997
• 109min

John, a seasoned British journalist and Hong Kong veteran for 20 years, takes the opportunity to pursue his unrequited love in the last days before Hong Kong′s changeover to China....