Special Programs in Focus

• Nagisa Oshima
• Japan
• 2002
• 24min

The images in Yunbogi′s Diary were shot by Oshima himself on his first visit to Korea in 1964. He was inspired to turn them into a film by the publication of a Japanese translation...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Wu Mi-Sen
• 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...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Nan T. Achnas
• 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 iro...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• ZHANG Yuan
• China
• 2002
• 98min

Zhang Yuan, who has been ceaselessly portraying the everyday occurrences of modern Chinese society, is a director who strives for a ‘spectacle of destruction’. Through the lens of ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Jack Neo
• 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 ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Amir Shahab Razavian
• Iran,Japan
• 2002
• 101min

Three old men suddenly hop into an old car and head out on a trip. Jobless and filled with memories, the three old men embark on a journey for the sake of one’s hometown, one’s los...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Ann Hui
• 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, s...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Teng Yung-shing
• Taiwan
• 2002
• 97min

Those who live a life of loneliness often do not know a way to escape their solitude. Loneliness becomes such vital parts of their beings that the only way to escape it is to stop ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Bahman GHOBADI
• 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...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Viet Linh
• 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 a...