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A Window on Asian Cinema
Fujian Blue- Shou Ming Weng
- China
- 2007
- 91 min
Director Weng Shou Ming made his feature film debut with this super 16mm movie Fujian Blue, which tells the stories of China’s young people who are troubled and becoming more mater...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers!- Daihachi Yoshida
- Japan
- 2006
- 112min
The elder sister who went to Tokyo to become an actress has come back home for her parents’ funeral. Her brother and younger sister seem uncomfortable. Her brother’s wife is immatu...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Guru- Mani RATNAM
- India
- 2006
- 156min
One of India’s top storytellers, Mani Ratnam directs an epic drama starring Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai; it is a unique Bollywood movie about dance, song, and an enterprise...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Help Me Eros- LEE Kang Sheng
- Taiwan
- 2007
- 103min
LEE Kang-Sheng, aka the persona of the famed director TSAI Ming-Liang, returns with his second film, a 2004 PPP project. Ah Jie, a stock investor, loses everything he has in the s...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Into the Faraway Sky- YUKISADA Isao
- Japan
- 2007
- 144min
In a remote countryside village of an uncertain time period in Japan ? though unlike Japan ? elders are gathered to oppose an airport that is to be built nearby. Ryosuke transfers ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
King Naresuan 1- Chatrichalerm Yukol
- Thailand
- 2007
- 167min
Director MC Chatrichalerm Yukol of Suriyothai returns to create another grand scale epic. This film series in 3 parts will be introduced this time with its 1st and 2nd parts; the 3...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Night Bus- Kiumarsh Pourahmad
- Iran
- 2007
- 90min
The war between Iran and Iraq lasted nearly 10 years and invaded the daily lives of civilians. Although the boy takes the bus daily to the front of the battle scenes like most of u...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Night Train- Yinan DIAO
- Hong Kong,United States,France
- 2007
- 94min
A female bailiff’s strange meeting with the husband of a female criminal on death row. While bored with life and longing for change, Hongyan meets Li-Jun, husband of a woman she sa...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Only Child, Upward, Downward, Forward, Backward, Rightward and Leftward- CUI Zi′en
- China
- 2007
- 70min
A philosophical essay written in visuals. The pioneer in Chinese queer cinema, Cui Zi’en, talks about carnal instinct from a philosophical point of view in allegory form. Physical ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Philippine Science- Auraeus SOLITO
- Philippines
- 2007
- 118min
Set in Philippine Science High School, a place for elite students in the 1980s, the film tells the story of 8 students. Director Auraeus Calo Solito incorporates the historical bac...