A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 1999
• 90min

Liu Li and Xiao Hong are stepsisters. They go to the same high school and sleep in the same room. Both are pretty, but there is intense rivalry between the two. Liu Li spends time with boys, but Xiao Hong, who works hard at her s...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 1999
• 95min

In one′s ordinary life, absurdity and madness are always latent, seeking a moment to burst out. This informs Kiyoshi Kurosawa′s idea of ′abnormality in everyday life′. With its theme of ′eternal love′, Barren Illusion portrays th...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China
• 1999
• 128min

Splendid fireworks lit up the skies of Hong Kong in 1997. Fruit Chan′s The Longest Summer is a story of the misfits of society who felt confusion, isolation, and despair in the numerous fireworks of 97 Hong Kong. The fireworks st...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 1999
• 100min

Thai cinema at the brink of the 21st century is going through dramatic changes. With only one 1997 film Dang Bireley and Young Gangsters to his profile, newcomer Nonzee Nimibutr′s second film Nang Nak has by far surpassed any oth...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 1999
• 89min

A boy and a girl, betrothed since childhood, are still fond of each other as they pass through adolescence. Their families, however, now have other plans for their children, and try to break up the teenage couple′s relationship. ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 1999
• 109min

Is becoming a good mother totally different from becoming a woman of respect? In a patriarchal society, the answer may be yes. In Lea′s Story, Lea raises objection to this idea. Lea is a career woman with a divorce record. She is...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 1999
• 119min

The film centers on characters who seek fiction for their ideals and love, yet suffer from it. Set in southern India in 1930s, the film depicts the love and the despair of a master of Kathakali, an ancient Indian performing art. ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 1999
• 95min

In the late eighties, the Chinese Economic Reform that turned its eyes overseas brought enormous changes to people′s lives. In reality it was not very favorable to individuals, just as the Korean economic policy of the sixties an...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 1999
• 118min

Abbas Kiarostami presents a man whose interest in death turns into an epiphany that reveals the value of life and nature. A group of reporters from Tehran arrive in a small Kurdish village near the Iranian border, in order to cov...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 1999
• 146min

The son of the master of Japanimation, Tezka Osamu, Macoto Tezka′s Hakuchi: The Innocent is a film that recreates Tezka′s father′s animated world of fantasy in non-animated format. However he takes what his father has accomplishe...