Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1998
• 20min

During Korea′s current fiscal crisis, a jobless man reminisces about his life with the Korean-style vodka known as soju (the "ALC 25%" of the film′s title), bringing back bittersweet memories of the loss of his mother′s soju bar c...

Wide Angle

• Korea,Japan,USA
• 1998
• 47min

This is the preview and first and second parts of the animation series of 13 parts directed by the chief animator Peter Chung, best known for Ion Flux, and jointly produced by Katokawa Production in Japan and Samsung in Korea. The...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1998
• 98min

While house-sitting for Ji-Hyun, her sister who is away visiting America, Seo-Hyun becomes entangled in a fateful love affair with her sister′s fiancee, Woo-In. Feeling hemmed in by the routine and monotony of married life, she is...

World Cinema

• Greece
• 1998
• 130min

It′s Sunday in Thessaloniki, and Alexander, a great author, is preparing to leave the house by the sea which has always been his home. He finds a letter in which his wife Anna speaks of a summer day some thirty years ago. From thi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 1998
• 67min

Within the bleak confines of the city, director Iwai Shunji discovers a serene beauty, like cherry blossoms blowing in the wind, which he presents in this contemporary urban fairy tale. The film follows the female protagonist, Uzu...

World Cinema

• Italy
• 1998
• 78min

This film can be seen as the sequel to Caro Diaro that brought the best direction award to Nani Moretti at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. Moretti explores present Italian society in this film as the incorporates his own voiceover ...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 1998
• 93min

One of the most important elements of a documentary is location. Sometimes the cameraman has a greater role than the director, as evidenced in this documentary which emphasizes camerawork. The seven artists in this documentary, ar...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1998
• 16min

The theme of deep repression throws conventional narrative logic out the window in this phantasmagoric film about the unknowable forces of nature which drive humans to extreme behavior. A man hallucinates after an encounter with a...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1998
• 116min

Kang Woo-Suk is a director and executive producer who has led the mainstream of Korean commercial cinema with films noted for their humorous situations and dialogue. His comedies have enabled Korean audiences to rediscover the hum...

Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1998
• 90min

Made outside the geographical and metaphorical confines of Chungmuro (the heart of film production in Korea) this film gives audiences the change to encounter the legends and the beauty of the Tadzhikistan people in Central Asia. ...