A Window on Asian Cinema

• DJ CHEN
• Taiwan
• 2004
• 93min

At a giance, a love story of a gav COuple by a female director seems to be unfamiliar. Formula 17 is filled with the delicate sensibilities of adolescent girls. 7 year-old Tien Tsa...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• IWAI Shunji
• Japan
• 2004
• 135min

Shunji Iwai, who has been creating his own artistic world while still capturing a contemporary sensitivity this time enters the heart of a teenage girl. The funny love story of Han...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Serik Aprymov
• Japan,Kazakhstan
• 2004
• 90min

Men, nature and wildlife come together as one to create this noble work. Director Seri Aprymov features a legend-like story of a fight between a hunter and a wolf in the beautiful ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• MIIKE Takashi
• Japan
• 2004
• 128min

New work from Takashi Miike is always unpredictable, and cinephiles may feel blown away yet again by Izo. It mocks the borders of taboo through extreme violence. The spirit of Izo,...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Ching po WONG
• Hong Kong,China
• 2004
• 85min

Jiang Hu is a new take on Hong Kong Cinema′s celebrated triad genre. Wong Ching-po, a director of independent films, has successfully filmed Jiang Hu by adding modern touches to tr...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Aoyama Shinji
• Japan
• 2004
• 119min

Shinji Aoyama′s psycho-thriller, Lakeside Murder Case, based on a bestselling novel, arouses viewers′ curiosity. Director Shinji has been focusing on the uneventful world until rec...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Manop Udomdej
• Thailand
• 2004
• 108min

The film is based on a true story. In the rural village of Prom Pi Ram, Thailand, a young woman is found dead beside the train tracks. At first, her death seems like an accident. A...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• M.F HUSAIN
• India
• 2004
• 130min

M. F. Husain, director of Meenaxi: Tale of 3 Cities, is known as a great figure of Indian art history. Meenaxi: Tale of 3 Cities carries strange colors that seem to cast strange sp...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• CUI Zi′en
• China
• 2004
• 73min

Cui Zi′en, one of the leaders in Chinese queer cinema, has always been interested in boys on the street. Aside from showing the director′s consistent interest on boys, Night Scene ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• KORE-EDA Hirokazu
• Japan
• 2004
• 141min

A twelve-year-old boy and his three younger siblings live all by themselves, totally on their own. The film is not set in a war-torn region or in some poverty-stricken country. It ...