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A Window on Asian Cinema

Out of This World
  • Junji SAKAMOTO
  • Japan
  • 2003
  • 123min

Out of This World comes as a surprise from a director, Junji Sakamoto, who showed his talent for describing tough lives in a very gentle form. The film is set after the Second VWor...

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We Shall Overcome Someday
  • KAZUYUKI Izutsu
  • Japan
  • 2004
  • 118min

In 1968 Kyoto, Japanese high school student Kosuke spends everyday dreaming of having girlfriend. An-sung, the leader of a delinquent group at a Korean high school for Korean resid...

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The Overture
  • Itthi Sunthorn VICHAILAK
  • Thailand
  • 2004
  • 104min

For the second feature by Itthi Sunthorn Wichailak, whose feature debut Look Bar was made 10 years ago, three of Thailands′s major production companies collaborated with high profi...

World Premiere

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Rice Rhapsody
  • Kenneth BI
  • Hong Kong
  • 2004
  • 108min

Jackie Chan founded a production company with a vision of making unique films with universal appeal with new directors. One turned out to be the multi-talented Kenneth Bi, once a m...

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South of the Clouds
  • Zhu Wen
  • China
  • 2004
  • 100min

Middle-aged widower Xu Daquin never felt that he lived a day for himself. Since his youth, he always wanted to go to Yunnam, near Tibet. He imagines what his life would have been l...

Asian Premiere

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Splendid Float
  • Zero CHOU
  • Taiwan
  • 2004
  • 74min

Splendid Float is a story about a guy named Rose (a.k.a. Roy), who leads two different lives at the same time: Taoist in daytime, drag queen at night. One day, he gets a request to...

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Story Undone
  • Hassan Yektapanah
  • Iran
  • 2004
  • 83min

This is the second film by Director Hassan Yektapanah, whose previous film, Djomeh, won the Cannes Film Festival′s Camera d′Or for best feature. A group of masked Iranians sitting ...

Asian Premiere

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The Tear of the Cold
  • Azizollah HAMIDNEZHAD
  • Iran
  • 2004
  • 86min

In the war zone of Kurdistan bordering Iran, on one side, a group of soldiers are searching for landmines. On the other side, a girl is shepherding her sheep. The two that never se...

Asian Premiere

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Tropical Malady
  • Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL
  • France,Thailand
  • 2003
  • 118min

Tropical Malady is one of the most creative experimental films released this year. The film is mainly composed of two parts. The first half is about Keng, a serviceman, who is havi...

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Turtles Can Fly
  • Bahman GHOBADI
  • Iran
  • 2004
  • 98min

Tragedy is not over yet. Bahman Ghobadi, who has been continuously talking about the sad history and fate of the Kurds, turns to tell another bitter story of the American attack on...

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Seoul Office #1601, GARDEN TOWER, 84, Yulgok-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 03131, Korea