A Window on Asian Cinema

• Fruit Chan
• 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 ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Shinji Aoyama
• Japan
• 2000
• 217 min

This is a film about people who cannot seem to escape the pains of the past. In this tale of a bus driver and two brothers who survived a bus hijack two years ago and reunite to st...

Wide Angle

• Oh Jung-Hun,Lee An-Sook
• Korea
• 2000
• 90 min

The star of Korean general election 2000 is none other than the word, boycott. 412 civic organizations joined together to keep corrupt and incompetent candidates from being re-elec...

World Cinema

• Aurelio Grimaldi
• Italy
• 2000
• 76 min

Maria, a seven year old girl who lives on the island of Ustica, has forgotten her mother’s birthday, and only remembers it when she sees her brothers present her with a gift of wil...

Special Programs in Focus

• Andy Kim
• Korea
• 1999
• 75min

If Disney can produce the animations about everlasting love every year, why can′t we make animation out of Choon-Hyang? This animated version contains ample amount of colorful and...

Wide Angle

• Sergei Dvortsevoy
• Kazakhstan,France,Germany
• 1999
• 52 min

A documentary on the life of a circus family wandering the steppe lands of Kazakhstan. They live in a small mini-bus. Their performances are far from spectacular, yet this is the l...

Open Cinema

• Junji Sakamoto
• Japan
• 2000
• 108 min

The epitome of Yakuza films, Kinji Hukasaku′s Another Battle was remade 8 times since 1973, and this current version, is director Junji Sakamoto′s latest film. When the boss of the...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Junji Sakamoto
• Japan
• 2000
• 123 min

Junji Sakamoto, who has mainly portrayed the world of men, presents the story of a woman this time in Face, yet maintains the same type of hero who resists existing social norms. ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Serik Aprymov
• Kazakhstan
• 2000
• 80min

The latest film of Kazakhstan’s new wave filmmaker, Serik Apriymov. A humorous coming-of-age film told through the memories of the youngest of three brothers, Cibut. A village loca...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mani Ratnam
• 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...