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A Window on Asian Cinema
Happy Time- ZHANG Yimou
- China
- 2000
- 90min
Since the mid-1990s Zhang Yimou, has been battling to find hope amidst the chaos of China′s society. Zhang′s films have, at times, entertained with ideals and ideas, but his popula...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Harmful Insect- Akihiko Shiota
- Japan
- 2001
- 92min
Akihiko Shiota′s Moonlight Whispers is about the sado-masochistic relationship between two high school students, and was one of the most impressive debut films in 199...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Hollywood, Hong Kong- Fruit CHAN
- Hong Kong
- 2001
- 108min
Hong Kong is a city of strange mixtures; the past and the present, of East and West. To Fruit Chan, this duality of the city never fails to bring out an artistic inspiration. <...
A Window on Asian Cinema
I Love Beijing- Ning Ying
- China
- 2000
- 80min
This film may be seen as a Chinese version of Taxi Driver, focusing on the daily life of one of the city′s many taxicab operators. One of China′s fifth generation dir...
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Kandahar- Mohsen MAKHMALBAF
- Iran
- 2001
- 85min
A director shouts. In a land where in the course of twenty years 2.5 million people died of hunger and war, and where 6.5 million still wander as refugees, he screams, risking his ...
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The Marriage Certificate- Huang Jianxin
- China
- 2001
- 110min
What use is a system/ideology when it cannot even catch up to the changing times? It is not only useless, but sometimes it even suppresses the people living under it. The Mar...
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Marsinah- Slamet Rahardjo Djarot
- Indonesia
- 2001
- 115min
Marsinah focuses on the events following the death of a woman laborer named Marsinah. In 1993, three days after her mysterious disappearance, her tortured body is fou...
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Millennium Mambo- HOU Hsiao-Hsien
- Taiwan
- 2001
- 119min
Hou Hsiao Hsien attempts to create a new film language with which to express himself for a new millennium. His first filmic attempt to do just that is Millennium Mambo
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Miss Wonton- Meng Ong
- Singapore,United States
- 2001
- 88min
Ah Na is a young Chinese immigrant girl living in New York. She works illegally at a Chinese restaurant with the hopes of someday realizing an "American dream." In her unexpected v...
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Monsoon Wedding- Mira Nair
- India,United States
- 2001
- 104min
Delhi is a complex city, comprised of people and languages from various levels of society, yet it manages to balance the importance of the present and the traditional past. The mon...