A Window on Asian Cinema

• Pen-ek RATANARUANG
• Thailand
• 2002
• 116min

A pastoral love story between a young man and woman. The first half of Mon-rak Transistor is filled with lyrical scenes of Thailand’s pristine landscapes which presents itself as a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Aparna Sen
• India
• 2002
• 120min

If you want an effective love story or wish to experience contemporary India, then watch this film. One day, Mrs. Meenakshi Iyer, who is holding a newborn baby, gets on the bus. On...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Marilou Diaz-Abaya
• Philippines
• 2002
• 134min

New Moon is a fictional exploration of historical attitudes. The film starts with subtitles introducing the history of Christianity and Islam in the Phillipines, then displays extr...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• YAMASHITA Nobuhiro
• Japan
• 2002
• 111min

The film begins with a couple walking in a deserted city. Daisuke, whose business in Tokyo had failed, and who had just returned to his old town to make a comeback, and his lover H...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Danny Pang
• Hong Kong
• 2002
• 93min

Nothing to Lose is a new film by the Thai director Danny Pang, who had previously worked with his brother Oxide Pang on Bangkok: Dangerous and The Eye. The film is about two young ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Shaji KARUN
• India
• 2002
• 118min

A film based in the northern province of India during 1971, Octave is a tale of a Pakistani couple in their 50s trying to survive during the complex political era. During this time...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mani RATNAM
• India
• 2002
• 132min

A tale about a girl who finds out on her 9th birthday that she had been adopted, and who heads to a war-torn Sri Lanka in search of her birth parents. This film is a moving melodra...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Linton Semage
• SriLanka
• 2002
• 85min

Through Pickpocket you can get a glimpse at yet another aspect of Sri lankan cinema. His pregnant wife always psychologically isolates professional pickpocket Kamal. She feels emba...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Fruit CHAN
• Hong Kong,Korea
• 2002
• 102min

A multinational film shot in India, New York, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Pusan, with actors from Korea, China, and Japan. The director of the film--which was invited to the Venice Int...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Ho Ping
• Taiwan
• 2002
• 106min

The Rule of the Game concerns several individuals faithful to their desires. Killer, who has a restaurant-worker wife and a son, would like to score big one day and live a differen...