Retrospective Section

• Makino Shozo
• Japan
• 1997
• 21min

Jiraiya is the protagonist of the Edo adaption from a Ming-China novel about thief. He is a Robin Hood and can transform himself into a snake or a frog. The special effects in the ...

Retrospective Section

• KIM Ki-Young
• Korea
• 1997
• 105min

The latest film by Kim Ki-Young, Carnivore is a remake of the 1972 the Insect Woman. The usual themes are present: Declining patriarchal authority, conflicts between the wife and h...

Wide Angle

• Lee Sang-In
• Korea
• 1997
• 29min

Truth is always relative. The three episodes presented in this film establish an aesthetic of irony. The tale of ‘the camel’ is a metaphor for our obsession with facts. What the di...

Retrospective Section

• Stanley Kwan
• Hong Kong
• 1997
• 154min

The film centers on the legendary actress Ruan Lingyu who killed herself in the 1930s. Besieds telling her life story, Stanley Kwan describes the social situation of the 1920s and ...

Wide Angle

• Prom Mesar
• Cambodia
• 1997
• 26min

In 1991, one soldier deserted from his ranks. He now lives with his wife and children in a town near Phnom Penh. He deplores the reality that only the poor go to war, and sons from...

Retrospective Section

• Lo Wei
• Hong Kong
• 1997
• 100min

When Wang Yu′s films were no longer popular in korea, Bruce Lee was considered a new discovery, because Wang Yu′s popular films were about swordsmanship and his new works about mar...