A Window on Asian Cinema

• LIU Jie
• China
• 2009
• 100min

Sometimes the law that protects humanity becomes a tool which destroys it. [Judge] tells that we can make injuries worse through revenge conducted in the name of the law and are co...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Chris CHONG Chan Fui
• Malaysia
• 2009
• 75min

Upon graduating from college Betik returns to his hometown and works at his family’s karaoke club, although his mother doesn’t seem to welcome his return. He gets a girlfriend, Ani...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Parviz SHAHBAZI
• Iran,Germany
• 2009
• 87min

A psychological drama reflecting how an unstable mind can destroy one human being. Farid, who runs a jewel shop, has reported Mansour, a thief who came to sell stolen goods five ye...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Yermek TURSUNOV
• Kazakhstan
• 2009
• 80min

Yermek Tursunov, who made a name for himself as a reporter and scenario writer, now makes his dazzling directorial debut. The film takes place in the ancient times when people coul...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• KISHITANI Goro
• Japan
• 2009
• 97min

Hiroko has been mostly unlucky. Always at the bottom of her class when young, and close to a loser at the moment, she expects a great reversal in her life. She is set to say goodby...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Itao ITSUJI
• Japan
• 2009
• 94min

In the early Showa era there was a man who kept breaking out of jails. His name was Masayuki Suzuki. His creative ways of breaking out and transcending physical ability, made every...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Huynh LUU
• Vietnam
• 2009
• 90min

Bruce, who is mentally disabled, goes on a journey to place his deceased mother’s ashes next to his late father. He believes that his father is Bruce Lee, the legendary martial art...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Ermek SHINARBAYEV
• Kazakhstan
• 2009
• 92min

One winter night, Gulnara meets a novelist by chance, brings him home to her house, and spends the night with him. The writer tells Gulnara an interesting, original story that he w...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• WANG Chao
• China,France
• 2009
• 90min

A sixth generation Chinese director’s dense melodrama. Director Wang Chao has created a pure melodrama about the bourgeoisie. Has the Chinese underground film scene finally comprom...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Ann HUI
• Hong Kong
• 2009
• 122min

The latest film from Hong Kong’s New Wave director, Ann Hui, is the story of the brutal murder of a family. What happened to the family, smiling brightly in a photograph? Along wit...