A Window on Asian Cinema

• Lijo Jose PELLISSERY
• India
• 2017
• 132min

A film about a man named Pepe in the small, chaotic and vibrant southern Indian city of Angamaly. Since his school days, Pepe has yearned for a life in a powerful gang, making mino...

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• Ismail Fahmi LUBIS
• Indonesia
• 2017
• 114min

Tarling Dangdut is Indonesian traditional music of Java, performed with erotic dancing by skimpily clad female singers. It is popular with the public but Muslim clerics are trying ...

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• Carlo FAJARDA
• Philippines
• 2017
• 16min

Shooting a documentary on the drug trade quickly descends into a dangerous obsession for two student filmmakers. With brothers Betong and Roel as underworld guides, the students be...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• HUANG Xi
• Taiwan
• 2017
• 104min

The film’s title alone tells us that it will be a story of looking for Johnny. However, this title is almost symbolic. Although the name “Johnny” does appear in the film?it is ment...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• HUANG Hsin-Yao
• Taiwan
• 2017
• 104min

Pickle is a security guard in a factory making bronze statues of Buddha. He is a poor old bachelor living with his widow mother. His best friend, Belly Button, is a junk dealer. At...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Ann HUI
• China,Hong Kong,China
• 2017
• 131min

This movie is made to honor the resistance fighters active when Hong Kong was occupied by Japan. The highlight of this movie is the comradeship among the guerrillas, spies and cont...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Yang LU
• China
• 2017
• 120min

In this prequel to Brotherhood of Blades (2014), Lu Yang continues to elaborate on the loyalty of those who find themselves caught up in an incident surrounding the Ming Dynasty. S...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• KISHI Yoshiyuki
• Japan
• 2017
• 305min

In 2021, Japan is tumultuous with the issues of youth unemployment, suicides, and a failing the social welfare system. Shinjuku Shinji and Clipper Kenji seem to be indifferent abou...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Vahid JALILVAND
• Iran
• 2017
• 104min

A forensic scientist, Dr. Nariman, has a collision with Moosa’s family riding a motorbike at night. In the accident, Moosa’s eight-year-old son sustains minor injuries, but Moosa d...

• 베니스영화제 오리종티 감독상, 남우주연상

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• Kazuo HARA
• Japan
• 2017
• 215min

Japan’s documentary master, Hara Kazuo, has now documented the lives of the victims of asbestos poisoning in the Sennan area of Osaka over ten years. Some victims and their familie...