A Window on Asian Cinema

• Murali NAIR
• India
• 2001
• 74min

A Dog′s Day quietly depicts the confusion and disorder caused by a dog donated to a town by a lord who gave up authority and declared democracy. This film indirectly suggests that at times high moral justifications are contradicto...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mingliang Tsai
• Taiwan,France
• 2001
• 116min

Tsai Ming-Liang creates films that are the epitome of cinematic aestheticism in addition to being most memorable reports on isolation. The three protagonists, Hsiao Kang, Hsiao Kang′s mother, and Shiang-Chyi, all experience the di...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• YUKISADA Isao
• Japan,Korea
• 2001
• 122min

Go suggests a new perspective on the Korean-Japanese issue. In the words of the writer of the original story, Kazuki Kaneshiro, Go is not about national identity but about a young man and his agony. Following his father′s wishes, ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Darezhan Omirbaev
• Kazakhstan,France
• 2001
• 85min

There′s a film director with a firm belief in the artistic value of movies. Due to the projectionist′s mistake during a film preview, a low-grade film is shown instead of the director′s much-anticipated new film. Furious, the dire...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Cheek
• Singapore
• 2001
• 98min

Singapore′s very first romantic comedy, Chicken Rice War is a fusion film, mixing chicken rice with Shakespeare′s Romeo and Juliet. Fenson and Audrey come from two chicken rice-making families who have been rivals for 20 years. Wh...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Abolfazl Jalili
• Iran,Japan
• 2001
• 96min

Delbaran is an international joint project by Iran and Japan, which depicts the life of a young Afghan boy, Kaim, in the Iranian border town of Delbaran. Kaim is a precocious boy who learns how the world functions. Kaim is a valet...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Ashutosh Gowariker
• India
• 2001
• 224min

A well-known fact: India was subjected to British rule beginning with the English victory in 1857. For many years, the British collected a tax called Lagaan from the Indians, claiming that it was used to protect the Indians themse...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• IWAI Shunji
• Japan
• 2001
• 146min

Shunji Iwai is famous for bringing out forgotten memories from his viewers. He is also famous for doing this with brilliant visual effects. This time his focus is on the ′14-year-old,′ a new social phenomenon in Japan. A sophomo...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Slamet Rahardjo Djarot
• Indonesia
• 2001
• 115min

Marsinah focuses on the events following the death of a woman laborer named Marsinah. In 1993, three days after her mysterious disappearance, her tortured body is found on a farm. She has been sadistically raped and murdered. Du...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mira Nair
• India,United States
• 2001
• 104min

Delhi is a complex city, comprised of people and languages from various levels of society, yet it manages to balance the importance of the present and the traditional past. The monsoon season has a special significance in these di...