A Window on Asian Cinema

• PANG Ho-cheung
• Hong Kong
• 2007
• 94min

Pang Ho-cheung’s wild mysterious drama. Police officer Jim investigates Kwan, a man brought in for filming video at a women’s washroom. However, Kwan states that there is a secret ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Brillante MENDOZA
• Philippines
• 2007
• 98min

This year’s best film from the Philippines. Thelma’s family, living in a ghetto, provides a foster home for abandoned children before they become adopted. Today is three-year-old J...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Shivajee Chandrabhushan DEOGAM
• India
• 2007
• 110min

The best film of the year from India, Frozen is about a family living peacefully in a mountain village in the Himalayas, who suddenly get hit with a tragedy and must work to overco...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Shou Ming Weng
• China
• 2007
• 91 min

Director Weng Shou Ming made his feature film debut with this super 16mm movie Fujian Blue, which tells the stories of China’s young people who are troubled and becoming more mater...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Daihachi Yoshida
• Japan
• 2006
• 112min

The elder sister who went to Tokyo to become an actress has come back home for her parents’ funeral. Her brother and younger sister seem uncomfortable. Her brother’s wife is immatu...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mani RATNAM
• India
• 2006
• 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 enterprise...

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 s...

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 ...

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 3...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Kiumarsh Pourahmad
• Iran
• 2007
• 90min

The war between Iran and Iraq lasted nearly 10 years and invaded the daily lives of civilians. Although the boy takes the bus daily to the front of the battle scenes like most of u...