A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2010
• 140min

Here is a star-studded samurai film: Miike Takashi’s remake of Kudo Eiichi’s 1963 classic of the same name. Set during the era of the Shoguns, thirteen assassins gather around Shinzaemon upon the request of Doi, the Shogun’s close...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2010
• 101min

A film about the love, desire, and despair of people who live in the magnificent and bustling city of Beijing. Li Jia, is a know-it-all that pursues only love, and a girl who roams the streets in rebellion against her father, Zhi ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China,Hong Kong,China,Taiwan
• 2010
• 118min

[Reign of Assassins] is loaded with the beauty of technically designed wirework and is brimming with a surrealistic atmosphere. Also, the idea of adapting action blockbuster [Mr. and Mrs. Smith] as a Ming Dynasty-set martial arts ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2010
• 85min

As a series of tragedies befalls one family, behind the scenes the vastly differing socio-economic status of each member makes itself known and felt. On the day of his daughter’s wedding, Adore hears that his sister Adeling’s yo...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Thailand
• 2010
• 130min

Inheriting the name of legendary Thai comedian, Tock is the heir of the third generation comedian family. However, he is born with tragic fate that he is not funny and he has to yield his position at the comedy troop to his sister...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2010
• 100min

The film is a touching epic drama based on a true story. In the 1960s, about 3,000 Chinese orphans were sent to Inner Mongolia. In the Xilingol grassland, Qiqigema Erji adopted Chen Chen and Yu Sheng even though her husband disapp...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Taiwan
• 2010
• 102min

After bed-ridden father died, a boy comes to live with his estranged mother. Having difficulties to adapt himself with new life, he spends time with a petty thief. One night, as the boy starts to dream about his elder brother who ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hong Kong,China
• 2010
• 103min

The film is the latest work by Pang Ho-cheung, one of the most active directors in the contemporary Hong Kong film industry. As Hong Kong started banning smoking, even outside buildings, in 2007, smokers were forced into the backs...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• China
• 2010
• 128min

In 1976, a great earthquake tore apart Tangshan, China. The event also broke a family into pieces when, trying to save his children, a father lost his life. Required to choose which to save between her daughter and son, both burie...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Japan
• 2010
• 131min

Suo Masayuki has created different kinds of films in which various genres coexist, but the genre of this film simply cannot be defined. Foremost, the film is a documentary chronicling the taping of Luigi Bonino’s newly reinterpret...