Open Cinema

• YUKISADA Isao
• Japan
• 2007
• 138min

The film is equipped with the best combination possible for a Japanese commercial film directed by Yukisada Isao starring SAWAJIRI Erika, ISEYA Yusuke and TAKEUCHI Yuko. A college...

Open Cinema

• Masayuki Suzuki
• Japan
• 2007
• 130min

Japanese TV dramas are divided by seasons and produced in 11 segments. Sometimes, popular dramas are made into 2-hour-long specials. If that proves successful, larger-scale product...

Open Cinema

• Masayuki Kojima
• Japan
• 2007
• 101min

A piano in the middle of a quiet forest shines in the moonlight. As a boy touches the keys, a beautiful melody echoes through the woods like magic. A genius, Kai, is blessed with a...

Special Programs in Focus

• Amir MUHAMMAD
• Malaysia
• 2007
• 72min

In Malaysian history, the communist party played a big role in fighting and claiming independence against Japanese occupation and the English colonists. The Malaysian government tr...

Special Programs in Focus

• James LEE
• Malaysia
• 2007
• 70min

The last film of the trilogy on love by James Lee, following Before We Fall in Love Again and Things We Do When We Fall in Love. James Lee, one of the new generation of independent...

Wide Angle

• Yuhang HO
• Malaysia
• 2007
• 10min

This is a new short film by director HO Yuhang. On a rainy day, a boy comes back home and lies in his bed, pretending to be asleep. However, he becomes anxious that he might be slo...

Wide Angle

• WOO Ming Jin
• Malaysia
• 2007
• 13min

Albert’s unique pleasure in his routine as a security guard is to enjoy the view of the world on the blue roof of the apartment. But one day, a burglar slips away and he gets fired...

Special Programs in Focus

• Deepak Kumaran Menon
• Malaysia
• 2007
• 98min

Dancing Bell, a film by Deepak Kumaran Menon, is about a poor Indian family in Malaysia. Muniammah, a flower seller, has an 11 year-old daughter, Uma, who dreams of becoming a danc...

Special Programs in Focus

• Yasmin AHMAD
• Malaysia
• 2007
• 94min

Yasmin Ahmad, one of the renowned women directors of Malaysia, describes in detail a girl’s sentiments being awakened to the emotion of a first love. Orked is a 14 year-old tomboy ...

Midnight Passion

• MATSUMOTO Hitoshi
• Japan
• 2007
• 113min

What makes a film new and original? It is probably based on how much the film goes against and breaks existing forms. This film follows the main character’s life in a documentary-...