A Window on Asian Cinema

• SABU
• Japan
• 2009
• 109min

There was a period between the 1920’s and 30’s in Japan when individualistic literature was denied and proletariat novels dealing with socialism and communism were on the rise. The...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• NISHIKAWA Miwa
• Japan
• 2009
• 127min

Soma, a young doctor from Tokyo keeps sighing when heading toward a remote rural village where he is assigned an internship. He is not wrong to feel that he is overqualified for th...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• DANG Nhat Minh
• Vietnam
• 2009
• 100min

Thirty years after the end of the Vietnam War, a Vietnamese doctor’s diary, which was kept safe in the U.S., is returned to her family in Vietnam. [Don’t Burn] follows how a diary ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Rituparno GHOSH
• India
• 2009
• 122min

This is a film about a director who falls in love with an actress he has discovered. However, it is not merely a story about love and jealousy, for it also describes many things ab...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• TSAI Ming-Liang
• Taiwan,France,Belgium,Netherlands
• 2009
• 141min

A Taiwanese filmmaker (Lee Kang-Sheng) makes a film based on the myth of Salome at the Louvre. Even though he speaks neither French nor English, he insists on giving the part of Ki...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Sanjay SRINIVAS
• Nepal,India
• 2009
• 99min

Living on the skirt of the Himalayas, a ten-year-old boy, Siddarth, lost his mom in a fire that occurred during a religious ritual and his dad was injured. Wondering why, the boy d...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Genwaii THONGDEENOK
• Thailand
• 2009
• 105min

An adaptation of the novel by Ngarmpun “Jane” Vejjajiva about nine-year-old Kati’s sorrow and hope. Kati lives with her grandparents, and cannot even remember her mom’s face. Still...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• HO Tzu Nyen
• Singapore
• 2009
• 86min

A documentary director documents the curing process of patients while following the past and present of the staffs and patients in the mental hospital. This film follows the change...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hussein HASSAN
• Iraq
• 2009
• 84min

1988, Kurdistan. Before the Iraqi government’s Operation Anfal to massacre and suppress the Kurds separatist movement began, two lovers Herman and Adar ‘who missed each other even ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• CHANG Tso Chi
• Taiwan
• 2009
• 107min

How are fathers remembered? This film answers the question by portraying ten stories of a father who’s remembered differently in each case, from a heart-warming point of view. Here...