Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 1998
• 100min

Kim Soo-Gil is a director with great talent as a screenwriter. Perhaps living on a foreign island has endowed him with this gift. He wrote Yun′s Town (89), directed by Korean-Japanese filmmaker Kim Woo-Sun. In this film, the frien...

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1998
• 20min

On a torpid summer′s day an enervated high school senior, in the midst of studying for college exams, falls into a kind of dream. With humor and sarcasm, the student narrates for us a tale of melancholy and despair. Short films ha...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 1998
• 110min

Although physically handicapped, his pure spirit rises high. Parapalegic Byung-Tae, remembering a past trip his father, goes on a vacation to Kyoungju. He meets two fellow travelers along the way, a wandering poet and a unmarried ...

Special Programs in Focus

• Korea
• 1998
• 96min

In the early 1970s, along with the military government, the Korean film industry and the quality of films was at an all time low. At this time, Yoo Young-Kil was not the only one questioning filmmaking in Korea. Thus it was a grea...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 1998
• 58min

On September 1st, 1923, a great earthquake of 7.9 hit the Kanto region in Japan and killed more than one hundred thousand civilians. A historical tragedy concealed from the world was that 6,500 ethic Koreans living in Japan were b...

Special Programs in Focus

• U.S.A
• 1998
• 75min

A film about a large, urban high school, High Schools documents the daily activities of administrators, teachers, parents and students, The ideology and values of the school are illustrated through formal and informal encounters b...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 1998
• 93min

Stanley Kwan′s first feature since he came out as gay in his documentary Yang +-Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema is a piercing account of love in a time of uncertainty - the time in question being 1997, the year of Hong Kong′s return...

Wide Angle

• Taiwan
• 1998
• 59min

Hong Meiyu is introduced to her husband by local fisherman. This documentary begins with Hong Meiyu leaving her ancestral home, Kinmen, a seashore village in China, for her marital home on a Taiwanese island. Although Kinmen is vi...

Special Programs in Focus

• Iran
• 1998
• 86min

A simple but warm documentary with a simple narrative. Kiarostami asks questions about homework when his camera crew visits an elementary school in Teheran. This film is noteworthy for revealing the director′s views on the documen...

Special Programs in Focus

• Japan
• 1998
• 114min

Three young half brothers, Ichitaro, Takeshi and Tsuguo, are moving from a traditional Japanese house near a river to the suburbs. With little experience living together as a happy family, their relationship gradually transforms o...