A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 90min

In 1999, the year before the millennium, Hei-shu, a long-term unemployed man, finally gets a job in a local musical band performing at funerals and weddings. One day, Hei-shu’s cat is missing. At about the same time, a new neighbo...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vietnam
• 2002
• 108min

After the death of his beloved, rich nobleman Nguyen feels he has nothing to live for. He becomes delirious with grief, taking out his miseries on the people. Master musician Tam attempts to bring Nguyen back to happiness by setti...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2002
• 93min

The late 19th century figure Jose Rizal is a national hero of the Philippines. He was a renowned artist, but he is better known as the spiritual leader of the national movement against the colonial domination of Spain and the Cath...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2002
• 77min

Rinko Tatsumi is a quiet, reserved woman in her mid-thirties. She works as an emergency phone counselor at the county mental health center. She is very capable and her husband Shigehiko is an important businessman. They have no ch...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2002
• 106min

The Rule of the Game concerns several individuals faithful to their desires. Killer, who has a restaurant-worker wife and a son, would like to score big one day and live a different life. Two bums, who occasionally work part-time ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iran
• 2002
• 96min

The casting of amateur actors, shifting between fiction and reality, and the format of a road movie are some of the elements that place A Marooned in Iraq squarely in the tradition of Iranian cinema with which we have become famil...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• India
• 2002
• 90min

Gopalakrishnan’s hero is Kaliyappan, an executioner in southern India, who enjoys the monetary rewards of his position but can no longer bear the solitude or guilt. More often than not, the executions he participates in are the re...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Indonesia
• 2002
• 75min

Budi and Rosi, who are assigned the important task of hoisting a flag on Monday’s at school, carefully bring the flag home. There is a lot to do; wash the flag, let it dry, and ironing it. The only problem however, is the flag kee...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Singapore
• 2002
• 108min

Although differing from country to country, it seems that Asia manifests signs of schizophrenia due to its obsession with the West and modernity, losing its social, political, and cultural identity. This is especially true in case...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong
• 2002
• 103min

A new film by Ann Hui, Hong Kong’s most renowned New Wave woman director, known for such films as Boat People and Song of the Exile, The original title of this film, Man Forties, suggests that it is a sequel to her earlier 1995 fi...