A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mania Akbari
• Iran
• 2007
• 77min

Abbas Kiarostami′s Ten (2002), portrays 10 conversations that occurred in a single car. Surprisingly, the cramped interior of the automobile reflected the wide and varied affairs of the world on the outside. Four years have passed...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Jing Jie Lin
• Taiwan
• 2007
• 113min

It is a road movie about people finding their true selves and overcoming heartaches through the medium of sound. Xiao Tang sends a tape of nature’s sounds he recorded himself to a former girlfriend without knowing she had moved aw...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mani RATNAM
• India
• 2007
• 156min

One of India’s top storytellers, Mani Ratnam directs an epic drama starring Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai; it is a unique Bollywood movie about dance, song, and an enterpriser. Gurukant Desai is a man from a small village wh...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Chatrichalerm Yukol
• Thailand
• 2007
• 167min

Director MC Chatrichalerm Yukol of Suriyothai returns to create another grand scale epic. This film series in 3 parts will be introduced this time with its 1st and 2nd parts; the 3rd part will be released in December. In the 16...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Chatrichalerm Yukol
• Thailand
• 2007
• 169min

Director MC Chatrichalerm Yukol of Suriyothai returns to create another grand scale epic. This film series in 3 parts will be introduced this time with its 1st and 2nd parts; the 3rd part will be released in December. In the 16...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Naghi NEMATI
• Iran
• 2007
• 80min

The film delivers its feeling as if we can sense the cold of snow field and the heat of hot springs. Three soldiers - Essi, Yousef, and Dariush - run away from their military base and while wandering in the snow field, encounter ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• LEE Kang Sheng
• Taiwan
• 2007
• 103min

LEE Kang-Sheng, aka the persona of the famed director TSAI Ming-Liang, returns with his second film, a 2004 PPP project. Ah Jie, a stock investor, loses everything he has in the stock market. He grows marijuana and spends all day...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• YAMASHITA Nobuhiro
• Japan
• 2007
• 121min

Eighth-grader Soyo lives in a very small rural village of Japan where the primary and middle school share a building for all of 6 students. They spend a happy childhood together playing around the village. Osawa, a boy from Tokyo,...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• YUKISADA Isao
• Japan
• 2007
• 144min

In a remote countryside village of an uncertain time period in Japan ? though unlike Japan ? elders are gathered to oppose an airport that is to be built nearby. Ryosuke transfers to a school in the village when his father, a gove...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Xiao’er GAN
• China
• 2007
• 102min

A 2005 PPP project, this film captures the lives of Christian farmers in China. Common housewife and Christian, Xiao-Li must provide for her husband, ill with pneumoconiosis, and her daughter. The only thing she has to lean on is ...