New Currents

• Chris CHOW
• Hong Kong,China,United States,France
• 2010
• 105min

Kate has a special talent. She can foresee exactly when others are going to die just by looking at their faces. One day, she meets a young man named Jason and informs him of his ti...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• NISHIKORI Yoshinari
• Japan
• 2010
• 130min

A company executive Hajime returns his hometown after learning his mother’s sudden collapse. Moreover, his friend who works at the factory he shut down short time ago suddenly dies...

New Currents

• LI Rui Jun
• China
• 2010
• 112min

[The Old Donkey] recollects the meaning of land to an older generation of Chinese who lived through rough patches of history. 84-year-old rural villager Old Ma is also called “Old ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Wisit SASANATIENG
• Thailand
• 2010
• 130min

This is a remake of the popular Thai series from the ’60s also called [Red Eagle]. Wisit Sasanatieng, who possesses an eye for the most unique cinematic colors, is the director. Mi...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• SU Chaopin,John WOO
• 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. a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• BOO Junfeng
• Singapore
• 2010
• 95min

18-year-old En is thrown into confusion while grappling with his first love with the girl next door, the sudden death of his grandfather, his Alzheimer’s-suffering grandmother and ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mohamed AL DARAJI
• Iraq,UK,France,United Arab Emirates,Egypt
• 2010
• 90min

After the fall of Saddam Hussein regime, news travels that there are surviving Kurd POWs in Southern Iraq. Grandma takes her grandson Ahmed to look for her son who has been missing...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Junji SAKAMOTO
• Japan
• 2010
• 123min

Among the Japanese films invited to the 15th PIFF, there are a number of directors’ works that have a special relationship with PIFF. In particular, Junji Sakamoto has introduced m...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• HSIAO Ya-chuan
• Taiwan
• 2010
• 82min

What kind of image do you think Taipei conveys? Director Hsiao Ya-chuan portrays the city as a place where even the barter trade system can spur an exchange of emotions, and this i...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• MIIKE Takashi
• 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 Shin...