A Window on Asian Cinema

• JIANG Wen
• China
• 2000
• 160 min

In a Chinese remote village untouched by war. Ma Dasan gets a visit from a mysterious stranger, who identifies himself only as "Me,” menaces the terrified him and leaves in his car...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Fruit Chan
• Hong Kong
• 2000
• 117 min

When the filmmaker was surveying the streets of Mongkok to shoot Little Cheung, the last part of Fruit Chan′s ′Trilogy of Hong Kong Handover,′ he came across a prostitute from the ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Shinji Aoyama
• Japan
• 2000
• 217 min

This is a film about people who cannot seem to escape the pains of the past. In this tale of a bus driver and two brothers who survived a bus hijack two years ago and reunite to st...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Junji Sakamoto
• Japan
• 2000
• 123 min

Junji Sakamoto, who has mainly portrayed the world of men, presents the story of a woman this time in Face, yet maintains the same type of hero who resists existing social norms. ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Serik Aprymov
• Kazakhstan
• 2000
• 80min

The latest film of Kazakhstan’s new wave filmmaker, Serik Apriymov. A humorous coming-of-age film told through the memories of the youngest of three brothers, Cibut. A village loca...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mani Ratnam
• India
• 2000
• 135 min

A new film from the master of melodramas, Mani Ratnam. He combines A.R. Rahman′s superb score with beautiful dances to tell this story of ill-fated romance. Karthik and Sakthi fall...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Takashi Miike
• Japan
• 2000
• 105 min

Filmmaker, Takashi Miike, known for his rich ideas and dynamic directing approach, a quality which even Hollywood has taken notice of, presents The City of Lost Souls, based on the...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Zhang Yimou
• China
• 2000
• 100 min

Zhang Yimou is too young to be considered ′old′, but it seems as time passes he is becoming more interested in the ′precious traditions′ that are slowly disappearing. In The Road H...