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Homecoming
  • Yim Ho
  • Hong Kong
  • 1984
  • 96min

A sophisticated businesswoman, disillusioned by the materialism of Hong Kong life, returns to her ancestral village in China to visit the grave of her grandmother. A reunion with...

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A Touch of Zen
  • King Hu
  • Hong Kong
  • 1971
  • 200min

Ku Shen-chai, a young artist and scholar is amazed to discover a beautiful woman living in a abandoned fort nearby. They become lovers, and Ku gradually realizes that she is a re...

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Yang San Do
  • KIM Ki-Young
  • Korea
  • 1955
  • 90min

An aristocrat’s son returns to the countryside and pursues Ok, a local girl who’s already engaged to Soo-Dong, a tenant farmer. His cruelty runs to no lengths as he tries to sepa...

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One-Armed Boxer
  • Wang Yu
  • Hong Kong
  • 1971
  • 97min

Yu Tien-lung, of the Cheng Teh Boxing School, has lost his arm in the combat with Shao and his gang. A young girl, Liang Shiao-yu saves him. Her boxing expert father teaches hi...

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Hyang-Ryung Mu (A Part of Ch’o-Yong Mu)
  • Unknown
  • Korea
  • 1920
  • 13min

A segment of “Ch’o-Yong Mu”, with the emphasis on ... hyang-ryung.

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Song of the Exile
  • Ann HUI
  • Hong Kong
  • 1990
  • 98min

Ann Hui’s autobiographical film. Hueyin returns to Hong Kong from England for her sister’s marriage. As she slowly opens up to her mother and starts to learn about her past, Hueyi...

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Spoiling the Wedding Day
  • Zhu Shilin,Bai Chen
  • Hong Kong
  • 1951
  • 100min

Against the backdrop of working class Hong Kong, a naive trumpeter and his feisty factory worker sweetheart struggle to save enough money for their wedding. Yet, unforeseen obsta...

World Cinema

Mother and Son
  • Alexander SOKUROV
  • Russia,Germany
  • 1997
  • 79min

Mother and Son is the story of the deep bond between a mother and her son. As the last two inhabitants of an empty village, the son nurses his mother through her last days. The st...

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Raja Hariachandra
  • D.G.Phalke
  • India
  • 1913
  • 3700ft

The first Indian Feature length film. Based on one of the Mahabharata legends, it is about king Harishandra’s devotion to truth for which he is prepared to sacrefice his kingdom.

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Nippon Nankyoku Tanken
  • Taizumi Yasunao
  • Japan
  • 1912
  • 20min

In 1910, Shigenobu Okuma the president of M Pathe Shokai decided to provide financial support and to record the South Pole expedition of a Japanese group run by the lieutenant Shi...

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