Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2000
• 102 min

An anime produced for the US and worldwide market with the help of an American screenwriter, a television series, and an international company. Vampire Hunter D introduces an anti-hero with a double identity, as borrowed from the ...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 2000
• 126 min

This third feature by Hong Sang-Soo is void of any colors. His reasoning behind this is that information contained within color may make characters′ emotions dull. This black-and-white film touches on the fine line between emotion...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• 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 in love. Though their families oppose their relat...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 2000
• 18 min

Nine year-old Jin-Soo begins to question his hot-blooded desire of becoming a boxing referee, as his father has nothing to do with boxing. ‘Who could my real dad be?’ This wild-eyed kid′s outrageous imagination invites the audienc...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Uzbekistan
• 2000
• 74 min

Letters from an unknown place can bring joy. Women′s Paradise from Uzbekistan is truly a delightful experience full of exotic sensibility and human warmth. The main character is college professor and witer, Olim. He is currently s...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 1999
• 24min

1001 Nights is a visually rich animated tale of two people in a desperate search for love. Prince Kamaal and Princess Budu are two lonely people brought together by their respective fairies, Mamune and Derrish. In a dreamlike wor...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1999
• 17min

On October 26th, 1979, the nation′s dictator is gone but in a small family, an eldest sister gets the absolute power as the next dictator two days later. Her money and power is relegated to the next sister, who wants to seek plea...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 1999
• 67min

2H starts on a subway train that runs into an accident. The film then follows an image of the lean hand of an old man over ninety. Director, Li Ying tries to talk to us through the image of the old man who can meet death anytime....

Wide Angle

• Netherlands
• 1999
• 11min

High up in his top-floor apartment a tenant sees a woman falling off the roof of the building opposite. Far away in the prairies a cowboy hears cries for help from a woman tied down to the railroad track, while a train is approach...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1999
• 20min

[A day] gets exhausted when one is involved in physical labor. In this age of economic crisis, that feeling still remains but the labor is absent; so is the family life of a laborer. Man-Sik is such a person living for a day. H...