A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2001
• 119min

Shohei Imamura′s preoccupation has always been the subject of what it means to be ′Human′ Although his characters may sometimes smell of filth, the point is that they always delve deeply into the condition of man and his nature. O...

Open Cinema

• Japan
• 2001
• 91min

A new film by the director of My Secret Cache and Adrenalin Drive, Waterboys is a very entertaining film about a group of high school boys who try out as a synchronized swimming team. Based on a true story, the film? main characte...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2001
• 45min

Three Korean-American women from different generations all suffer from violence at the hands of men. One woman, although under constant physical oppression, continues to live with her husband. Another, though divorced, is still fe...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2001
• 91min

Weekend Plot is the second feature film by Zhang Ming, who adopted modern methods in his last film In Expectation by developing penetrating psychological depictions. Seven close friends gather and depart on a trip and upon arrival...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan,France
• 2001
• 116min

Tsai Ming-Liang creates films that are the epitome of cinematic aestheticism in addition to being most memorable reports on isolation. The three protagonists, Hsiao Kang, Hsiao Kang′s mother, and Shiang-Chyi, all experience the di...

Wide Angle

• Hong Kong
• 2001
• 34min

A man prepares to buy a wheelchair for his physically-challenged father, who would like to take outings in the park. But as a poor salary man the wheelchair beyond his means. He seeks financial support from his brothers and sist...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2001
• 104min

Although watching Thai films is kind of rare experience in Korea, Where is Tong? does not seem unfamiliar at all. Perhaps it is because of the universality of the film medium itself, which enables viewers to cross national bound...

New Currents

• Indonesia
• 2001
• 106min

Whispering Sands is a muted story of the relationship between a soul-searching village girl and her jaded, possessive mother. Daya′s father, who was a traveling medicine peddler, deserted the family long ago. As a single mother,...

Special Programs in Focus

• Thailand
• 2001
• 8min

A child of the slums, who lives in a stilt-supported house over the water, dreams of riding a white bicycle and works diligently to purchase one. The child′s labor-filled days are miserable. This film depicts the daily scenes of t...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 2001
• 87min

Of this omnibus film, divided into four episodes, only 3 episodes remain, but nevertheless they are enough to deem Women of Yi-Dynasty an important film, both in a cinematic and a socio-historical sense. In the 1st episode "Wives ...