A Window on Asian Cinema

• Malaysia,Japan
• 1998
• 100min

In a small South Thailand village dependent on bullfighting for its living, two expatriate Malaysian brothers become invaluable community assets due to their skills in training bulls. But when the elder brother is murdered Mamat m...

Wide Angle

• USA
• 1998
• 11min

Just dancing is a fictional drama about a Honolulu policeman who finds his runaway wife on the beach learning to dance from the Polynesian Moon Goddess. His wife′s search for her culture roots and self actualization causes the pol...

Closing Film

• Japan,France
• 1998
• 128

On the eve of the Jaoanese surrender in 1945, in a tense war torn climate, Dr.Akagi, the local doctor in a seaside island village, takes a stand to save his professional integrity. He bands togrther with his old buddies, a dissolu...

World Cinema

• Turkey
• 1998
• 85min

Seen through the eyes of two children and told in four parts running parallel to the four seasons, Kasaba tells of a Turkish family set in a mall town. The first part takes place in the 11-year-old daughter′s primary school. The s...

Wide Angle

• Japan
• 1998
• 28min

Nineth-grader Ayako has a strange dream one night. She dreams of herself as a child who meets a fairy of the winds in the village shrine compound. The fairy hands her a pinwheel. A sudden wind rises, the pinwheel twirls, and the l...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kazakhstan,France
• 1998
• 80min

Marat is a personal driver in Almaty, capital of Kazakhstan. When he hits a Mercedes, the nightmare begins. The loan he gets to pay for damages puts him at the mercy of a Mafia boss. Marat becomes the victim of daily humiliation w...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Korea
• 1998
• 98min

Guido lives in a shabby studio located on the hillside of a poor neighborhood. The studio might be a humble den but like many starving filmmakers, it is a place where his passion and desires for film gives birth. However, his drea...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 1998
• 85min

Roommates Chan and Yau share a fascination for women. It is love at first sight for Chan when Mok moves in below. But Yau and Mok argue frequently over her constant piano playing,

Wide Angle

• Korea
• 1998
• 6.30min

The film is a clay animation version of ′First Kiss′, which unfolds the episodes about kisses by demonstrating male and female lip-shaped characters. The male lips would try to kiss the female lips. Since the teeth of the male lip...

Special Programs in Focus

• U.S.
• 1998
• 33min

An unexpected series of events leads a young Korean-American to rethink his past, present and future. Jonathon Cho confronts two very different eyewitness accounts of a bloody shootout in Korean-owned liquor store in the heart of ...