A Window on Asian Cinema

• Johnnie TO
• Hong Kong,China
• 1999
• 88min

A story about a low-life and a widow with a son falling in love would seem too conventional. Yet director Johnnie To succeeds in transforming mannerisms into a delightful drama by ...

New Currents

• Ikehata Shunsaku
• Japan
• 1999
• 122min

Sixty-four-year old Mano, retired after serving 40 years as a firefighter, is a lonely old man. His wife has been admitted to a psychiatric ward, his son is separated from his wife...

New Currents

• Khyentse NORBU
• Bhutan,Australia
• 1999
• 93min

What happens when a Tibetan Buddhist monk leaves his home in the deep mountains of the Himalayas and encounters the outside world? The Cup takes a heartwarming approach to this qu...

New Currents

• Liu Bing Jian
• China
• 1999
• 90min

Despite their feelings, people often suppress their sexual orientation, either due to their own unawareness or due to the moral values of the society they live in. Men and Women ar...

Korean Panorama

• Min Byung-Chun
• Korea
• 1999
• 103min

Phantom, The Submarine features an assumption and a concern. Having received the code name 431, Lee Chan-Suk joins the crew of Korea′s first nuclear submarine, named ′Phantom′. For...

New Currents

• Linton Semage
• SriLanka
• 1999
• 72min

A film about a love affair between a widower and a married woman leads us to expect a bittersweet or tragic romance. Director Linton Semage may not actually stray from this typical...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Dev Benegal
• India
• 1999
• 104min

KP is a good-for-nothing hustler on a scooter, He treasures ten-year-old Didi, who sells flowers on the street and loves her very much. But one day, Didi disappears and KP starts a...

New Currents

• Murali NAIR
• India
• 1999
• 60min

Happy death to all! This event which absurdly transforms a falsely-charged death into a happy execution for the sake of politics is a most biting parody on the political process. S...

Korean Panorama

• Lee Doo-Yong
• Korea
• 1999
• 103min

If growing up and the pain of a divided nation are the themes of Scent of Love and Until We Meet, L′Amour concerns morality and faith, two agents required to persevere through such...

Korean Panorama

• Jang Sun-Woo
• Korea
• 1999
• 113min

Jang Sun-Woo is always poking at the Achilles′ heels of Korean society and Lies is no exception, as he once again crosses the line of taboos. Due to its frank depiction of a sado-m...