A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore
• 1997
• 100min

Three stories are interwoven in the course of one day in a block of subsidized residential flats. Ah Gu， a middle-aged man， has brought home a pretty young wife from China， whose high expectations of Singapore life lead her to ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 1997
• 73min

Recent Iranian cinema is notable for experimenting with new ways of storytelling. Mohsen Makhamalbaf used an absolutely new and complicated storytelling method in Moment of Innocence (made in same year as Gabbeh) through dismantli...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 1997
• 95min

The Mirror starts with the simple story of Mina, a little girl who has lost her way home from school. Our filmic expectations are challenged when the film changes midway from fiction to documentary. The shooting of the second half...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 1997
• 90min

Ishii Sogo was a pioneer of independent, self-taught film-making in Japan. He achieved a breakthrough for himself and many other would-be directors when he co-directed a 35mm remake of one of his student Super-8 film for commercia...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 1997
• 114min

This second film by director Wang Shaudi (Accidental Legend screened at last year′s PIFF) is a black comedy which satirizes the claustrophobic lives of city residents. The film′s four chapters - Car, House, Body and Love - present...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 1997
• 100min

40 years ago gangs ruled Bangkok, Dang Bireley and Young Gangsters is a classic gangster tale full of drop-dead beauties, violent shoot-outs, and tough gangsters with hearts of gold. Dang Bireley was a real person, a famous gangst...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 1997
• 90min

Master satirist Huang Jianxin‘s new film is a kind of thriller, but one with most of the generic thriller elements (fights, chases, arrests) left somewhere off-screen. As you might expect from a director responsible for the most a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam
• 1997
• 90min

It is 1981, six years after Vietnam‘s war of reunification. The spirit of revolution has been forgotten as Vietnam faces a difficult economy. Director Le Hoang emphasizes the old social values of honor and cooperation in the story...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 1997
• 95min

The Red Doors is a psychodrama about a middle aged dentist who has closed the door to his mind. Nabin is obsessed with his stiffening body, connecting this to his estranged wife, Nabin looks at the life of his chauffeur Dinu, a ha...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 1997
• 114min

To Love is about youthful love, and the need for the human rights of Japanese lepers. Mitsu Morita finds love sith Tsutomu Yoshioka, but they separate when Mitsu is diagnosed with leprosy. At the sanitarium, new tests reveal a mis...