A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 1996
• 107 mins

Kunjunni is the man of the story. Entering college, communism is fashionable and he takes it up naturally. But he soon gets disgusted with the existing political parties and true to his convictions, he joins a Maoist faction. Kunj...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 1996
• 125 mins

Young Ilalang and Bulan try to unveil their essential nature. Their search is developed around Waluyo, a master of classical Javanese arts. Bulan tries to establish her identity through devotion to Waluyo. Ilalang′s search for him...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 1996
• 87 mins

In this dark and terrifying, absurd and poignant, psycho-sexual drama, violence, desire and memory collide through a haunting love triangle. Tsuda, a life insurance dealer, leads a mundane life with his cool and somewhat eccentric...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 1996
• 90mins

A Lan, a sensitive young writer, strolls in a Beijing public park often frequented by gays and lesbians. During a police raid，A Lan is taken to headquarters where a “by the book” interrogation ensues, triggering an unexpected remi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 1996
• 117 mins

Mao and Ukiya are in the same gang at Ishido High School. When the impetuous Ukiya sees Izumi, a recent transfer student and platform diver, he falls madly in love. Immediately, he asks his friend Miki to divine their compatibilit...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 1996
• 106 mins

Puwal is a boatman of Nemuguri village on the bank of a river without a bridge. Recognizing the force of change, he earns money to give his grandson the best education possible. Life flows smoothly until Puwal hears that a bridge ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Malaysia
• 1996
• 70 mins

involves the struggles of an undocumented immigrant family and a boy′s coming-of-age. The son Kesuma must forge his own identity against the intimidating presence of his father Kakang, a man proud of his Javanese heritage and well...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 1996
• 112 mins

Red Rose Jiao-Rui is a passionate woman with a western sense of naivete and self-assurance. She is trapped between the bondage of a husband she doesn′t love and the husband′s friend Zhen-Bao who she is hopelessly in love with. She...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 1996
• 95 mins

Set 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...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 1996
• 96 mins

One rainy night, the city of Tehran is targeted by enemy missiles, forcing Farhad Sadri, an abject intellectual, to flee with his family. Searching for security in the nostalgia of the upper-north country, Farhad causes a dreadful...