A Window on Asian Cinema

• YOSHIDA Daihachi
• Japan
• 2017
• 126min

The lamb in “The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary” introduced in this movie is an animal fruit born in a plant stem similar to the umbilical cord. If the stem is cut, the lamb dies. This ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Somaratne DISSANAYAKE
• SriLanka
• 2017
• 96min

Sam shows signs of mental illness, being obsessed with women’s underpants. He causes trouble by stealing the neighbors’ panties and touching the panties of passing women. Sam’s bro...

Special Programs in Focus

• Seijun SUZUKI
• Japan
• 2017
• 91min

In a world where killers are ranked, all snipers have their scopes focused on one another. Hanada is a gun-for-hire listed as the No. 3 hit-man of the underworld. During a job wort...

Special Programs in Focus

• Seijun SUZUKI
• Japan
• 2017
• 90min

In an impoverished and burnt-out post-World War II Tokyo ghetto, Maya joins a band of prostitutes defending the neighborhood, squatting in a bombed-out building. Although she learn...

Special Programs in Focus

• Seijun SUZUKI
• Japan
• 2017
• 83min

When his Yakuza gang is disbanded, Tetsuya “Phoenix Tetsu” Hondo stays loyal to his boss?not an easy task for him. With stunningly choreographed action sequences and vibrant colors...

Special Programs in Focus

• Seijun SUZUKI
• Japan
• 2017
• 140min

Set in 1920s Taisho period, Kagero-za examines the inner workings of the human psyche in this study of relationships between different main characters. After Matsuzaki, a playwrigh...

Special Programs in Focus

• Seijun SUZUKI
• Japan
• 2017
• 128min

Yumeji is a fictional account of Takehisa Yumeji, a painter and poet from the Taisho period. While traveling he comes across a mysterious widow who relentlessly searches for...

Special Programs in Focus

• Seijun SUZUKI
• Japan
• 2017
• 142min

Vacationing in a small seaside village, Aochi runs into Nakasago, a former colleague who is being pursued by a mob for allegedly seducing and killing a fisherman’s wife. Six months...

Special Programs in Focus

• Seijun SUZUKI
• Japan
• 2017
• 112min

Miyuki, nicknamed “the Stray Cat” and the third-ranked assassin for The Assassins Guild, is asked to pull off a hit by the group’s agent, but finds herself in a sticky situation wh...

Korean Cinema Today

• LEE Sooyoun
• Korea
• 2017
• 117min

An unsolved murder occurs in a new town. Seunghoon, a physician who, after opening a clinic in Gangnam, ended up bankrupt and divorced, gets a job at his friend’s hospital and move...