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Shanghai TriadXiao, the most beautiful cabaret singer and prostitute in Shanghai, is caught between the power struggles of 1930′s warlords battling it out to control Shanghai′s lucrative opium trade and prostitution rings. Mistress to "Godfath...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Sleeping ManTakuji is the sleeping man, rendered unconscious by a fall in South America, now bedridden in silence in the village of Hitosuji. Kamimura, Takuji′s schoolmate, reminises on how they played and visited a hut as boys. Tia, a Southe...
A Window on Asian Cinema
SonsSet in modern Beijing, this docu-drama probes how a real-life family of four, playing themselves, relate to one another in a callous and overwhelming world. At first glance, the father′s alcoholism appears as the force driving the...
korean Retrospective
SopyonjeOne day in the early 1960′s, Dongho, a man in his thirties, arrives at a village inn. While absorbed in deep thought, listening to a Pansori song by the hostess, he remembers his childhood. Visiting Dongho′s village, Yubong, a vag...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Stage Door"Hu-Du-Men" refers to the imaginary line in Cantonese opera at the point an actor crosses the stage, becoming the character and leaving behind one′s personal life. It also refers to transgressing other lines, like gender, which L...
Wide Angle
Station to StationA train driver always moves at work, but how about in his own life..?
Wide Angle
SubwayThis short piece exposes modern life in Seoul by documenting ordinary life on Seoul′s subway. The routine becomes striking in tis commonness, leading audiences to see anew images they would normally glance for half a second. The f...
Wide Angle
Super LoverThe " ugly" Kyoko believing she would look much better next to her obese friend, who in her opinion is much " uglier" than herself, visits the man she likes together. To her surprise, however, the man has very interesting taste....
Wide Angle
Taipei TaipeiWithout any urban planning, Taipei is now a chaotic metropolis. This film expresses the animator′s observations concerning the city′s ′modernization,′ and attemps to recall the Taiwanese collective memory that has been suppressed ...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Temptress MoonChina, 1911... The Republic has replaced the Emperor. Orphaned Zhongliang lives with his sister who has married into the powerful Pang family. Tired of being treated like a servant, he runs away. Picked up by the Shanghai gangster...