A Window on Asian Cinema

• Parviz SHAHBAZI
• Iran
• 2003
• 86min

A favorite subject of filmmakers is ′youth′, especially stories of young people struggling for love in their suffocating reality. Deep Breath, beginning with a scene of a body pull...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Zien CUI
• China
• 2003
• 80min

What makes a boy want to sell his body? Cui Zi′en, the doyen of Queer Chinese Cinema, here turns away from relatively high-flown queer theory towards street-level realities. But it...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Ching po WONG,Kung lok LEE
• Hong Kong
• 2003
• 86min

The characters in Fu Bo witness the borderline between life and death everyday. The life of Uncle Fu, a coroner estranged from his wife and son, is more closely related to the dead...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mingliang Tsai
• Taiwan
• 2003
• 82min

Dealing with the two hours on the eve of a theater closing, the film can be seen as a hymn to old-style cinemas. The film begins with the last screening in an old 1000-seat theater...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• SABU
• Japan
• 2003
• 79min

Since his debut film, DANGAN Runner, Sabu has pursued his own style and narrative structure. Hard Luck Hero stays consistent with his other works, yet has a little more sophisticat...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Goutam GHOSE
• India
• 2003
• 83min

In the Forest Again can be seen as a sequel to Days and Nights in the Forest (1969) by renowned Indian director Satyajit Ray. It was when Goutam Ghose was making a documentary abou...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Pen-ek RATANARUANG
• Thailand
• 2003
• 112min

Any longtime buff of the Pusan International FIim Festival will easily remember Pen-ek Ratanaruang. Following Fun Bar Karaoke and Mon-rak Transistor, his latest film, Last Life in ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• NAKATA Hideo
• Japan,Korea
• 2003
• 98in

Hideo Nakata, famous for Ring and Dark Water, has directed another film, but this time it is not a scary story. Hideo Nakata pays a great deal of respect to Japanese film productio...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Alireza Amini
• Iran
• 2003
• 76min

The film begins with rough black and white images almost reminiscent of documentaries. For the simple soldiers posted near Tehran, listening to stories recorded by a woman is the o...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Doug CHAN
• Macao,China
• 2002
• 83min

The introduction for Love Is Not a Sin Is hard to grasp. Is this a love story, or a horror flick? This question, posed at the very beginning of the film, is difficult to answer. Tw...