Korean Panorama

• Korea
• 1998
• 100min

The scent of people are brought in with the smell of the sea. Jin-Ah settles down in an inn enclosed in a blue gate near the sea. Hae-Mi, the daughter of the inn owner despises Jin′Ahn, who sells her body to customers. To Jin-Ah, ...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1998
• 18.3 min

At this Japanese restaurant in the U.S., what is the recipe for an exquisite dish? Combine a grumbling Mexican chef; and American couple enchanted by exotic flavors; and a Korean couple who are refused service. A Japanese tourist ...

World Cinema

• Yugo
• 1998
• 116min

Back in the good ol′ days, Grga Pittich and Zaria committed their first robbery together and made their last jail break together. Now both in their eighties, Pittich is the gypsy Godfather and Zaria is a successful businessman. Pi...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 1998
• 60min

An 18-year-old girl, Ryoko, works at a beauty salon. She dislikes her monotonous life and is anxious about her future. One day, Kazuya, a mysterious character, moves into a room across the street. He sometimes meets with Ryoko but...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1998
• 23min

Brushing is a portrayal of the alienation stemming from the conformity demanded of individuals within the confines of family life. A boy and his grandfather are left alone together while his parents go away on vacation. The unplea...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 1998
• 90min

Tsukamoto Shinya`s fame - in Japan and the rest of the world - began with his 16mm feature Tetsuo, an extremist cyberpunk fantasy in which an ordinary man hit by a car finds his flesh mutating into metal. Nothing like that happens...

World Cinema

• Czechoslovakia
• 1998
• 100min

A film about spitting on trains, about bad weather, about the atom bomb, about shooting human sperm into the Andromeda Constellation, but also about infidelity and about people who happened to have killed other people. The kaleido...

World Cinema

• The Netherlands
• 1998
• 119min

Based on the novella "Dreverhaven en katadreuffe"(1928) and the novel "Karakter"(1938) by F. Bordewijk, the film Character is a story of ambition, desperation and hate. katadreffe, the bastard son of Joba Katadreuffe and the relen...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 1998
• 3min

The family is usually the smallest, earliest social unit an individual comes into contact with.

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1998
• 30min

A house-husband goes through his daily chores with a kind of grace, even taking a break to chew on a hot pepper in solitude. Although uncomfortable with bringing the laundry in or trying to catch a fowl in the yard, he performs hi...