Special Programs in Focus

• Bae Yong-Kyun
• Korea
• 1988
• 175min

Selected for this series by Lee Yong-Kwan and added to the programme by Kim Ji-Seok, Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? seems at first sight an anomalous choice for this conte...

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• Chen Kaige
• China
• 1984
• 89min

Although The One and the Eight by Zhang Junzhao (photographed with astounding originality by Zhang Yimou) was the first real major work of the modern Chinese cinema that we conveni...

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• Raymond RED
• Philippines
• 1999
• 23,15,25,16,10min

Raymond Reds＇s early short films are not only amongst the very best films ever made in the Philippines but also some of the most original and allusive shorts in film history. Reds＇...

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• Lino BROCKA
• Philippines
• 1975
• 125min

Julio was a fisherman in the countryside, but he left home for Manila in search of his childhood sweetheart, Ligaya. He finds work under cruel conditions at a construction site, w...

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• Ritwik Ghatak
• India
• 1959
• 122min

Calcutta of the 1950s. Turned into refugees by the partition of Bengal after independence in 1951, a middle class family lives a precarious existence. The eldest daughter, Nita, is...

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• YU Hyun-Mok
• Korea
• 1961
• 108min

This masterpiece is also Yu Hyun-mok′s breakthrough film. Through a struggling family living a destitute life, he reveals the difficulties of postwar Korean society. Such is the pi...

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• YU Hyun-Mok
• Korea
• 1967
• 105min

This is one of a handful comedies Yu Hyun-Mok has directed in his career, enabling us to examine his cinematic world from another point of view. Three generations of the Gong famil...

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• Mizoguchi Kenji
• Japan
• 1953
• 97min

Ugetsu Story made Mizoguchi visible in the Western film scene, winning the Silver Lion and Italian Critics′ Award at the Venice Film Festival in 1953. Yoshikata Yoda and Matsutaro ...

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• YU Hyun-Mok
• Korea
• 1980
• 110min

Yu Hyun-Mok′s view of human salvation is bound to feature some form of religious concept.Not because he was a member of a certain religious sector, but because religion is somethin...

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• Dang Nhat Mihn
• Vietnam
• 1984
• 95min

Like most countries that lived through the tragedy of war, Vietnam too has made numerous films dealing with the pains of war. Among the list, Dang Nhat Minh′s When the Tenth Month ...