A Window on Asian Cinema

• Ichigawa Jun
• Japan
• 2002
• 115min

Set in Japan’s Meiji Era, Ryoma’s Wife is a unique period piece. The film seems to follow the traditions of classical Japanese drama, yet places more focus on aesthetic style accom...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Adoor Gopalakrishnan
• India
• 2002
• 90min

Gopalakrishnan’s hero is Kaliyappan, an executioner in southern India, who enjoys the monetary rewards of his position but can no longer bear the solitude or guilt. More often than...

Special Programs in Focus

• Nagisa Oshima
• Japan
• 2002
• 103min

Three small-town high-school pupils come to Tokyo to take university entrance exams. In the examination hall they find their collective thoughts straying to sexual fantasies about ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• TSUKAMOTO Shinya
• Japan
• 2002
• 77min

Rinko Tatsumi is a quiet, reserved woman in her mid-thirties. She works as an emergency phone counselor at the county mental health center. She is very capable and her husband Shig...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Tian Zhuang-Zhuang
• China
• 2002
• 116min

Springtime in a Small Town is filled with carnal desires. As the unspeakable and repressed desires escalate, and sexual tensions burst out of the screen. There also is the terror o...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Buddhadeb Dasgupta
• India
• 2002
• 86min

Though A Tale of a Naughty Girl is set in 1969, just as man is about to walk on the moon, Dasgupta has fashioned a timeless, indeed universal tale that speaks to women and men ever...

Special Programs in Focus

• Nagisa Oshima
• Japan
• 2002
• 82min

An anarchic comedy in colour and ‘Scope about three students’ (the tallest one played by Kato Kazuhiko, founder/leader of the Sadistic Mika Band) who emerge from a swim in the sea ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• JIA Zhangke
• Japan,Korea,France
• 2002
• 113min

In the year 2001, China successfully joins the WTO, and also acquires the role of hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics. But while China successfully enters the international scene, fac...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Rudi Soedjarwo
• Indonesia
• 2002
• 112min

While watching What’s with Love?, one cannot stop but wonder if the lives of the inner-city youth everywhere are the same, whether in Korea, the U.S., or Indonesia. 17-year-old hig...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Pang Ho-cheung
• Hong Kong
• 2002
• 98min

You Shoot, I Shoot is a delightful black comedy ful of unexpected surprises. Hird assassin Bart has to do something strange in order to satisfy his customer. High profile customer ...