A Window on Asian Cinema

• LIN Cheng-Sheng
• Taiwan,Japan
• 1997
• 118min

Alienation and anxiety seem to take on special meaning as director Lin Cheng-Sheng follows Edward Yang and Tsai Ming-Liang around the streets of Taipei. Lin′s Taipei is a dark and ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Yee Chung-Man
• Hong Kong
• 1998
• 85min

Roommates Chan and Yau share a fascination for women. It is love at first sight for Chan when Mok moves in below. But Yau and Mok argue frequently over her constant piano playing,

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Park Kwang-Choon
• Korea
• 1998
• 96min

First introduced as a series on the internet and then a best-selling novel of the same title, The Soul Guardians uses visual technology to depict the conflict between good and evil...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Abolfazl Jalili
• Iran
• 1998
• 90min

It is impressive to see in this film the smile of the Iranian boy, Farhad, who is too young to know what despair means. This film doesn`t present a world shown through children`s h...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Stanley Kwan
• Hong Kong
• 1998
• 93min

Stanley Kwan′s first feature since he came out as gay in his documentary Yang +-Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema is a piercing account of love in a time of uncertainty - the time in q...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Marilou Diaz-Abaya
• Philippines
• 1998
• 114min

In a remote fishing village in the 1950’s, Pepito, son of the island’s only midwife, grows up learning his mother’s trade. As he grows older, he becomes uncomfortable with this tra...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Iwai Shunji
• Japan
• 1998
• 67min

Within the bleak confines of the city, director Iwai Shunji discovers a serene beauty, like cherry blossoms blowing in the wind, which he presents in this contemporary urban fairy ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Rithy Panh
• Cambodia,France
• 1998
• 108min

A large part of Savannah? family was exterminated by the Pol Pot regime. He now lives in the miserable, overcrowded capital scarred by war. In spite of the horrors he has seen, he ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hu Bingliu
• China
• 1997
• 102min

Granny Ah Xi lives a solitary existence and is becoming increasingly more erratic. Two helpers leave in frustration. Then a third girl comes to work and the two develop a sincere f...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mingliang Tsai
• Taiwan
• 1998
• 93min

It is seven days to the 21st century and endless rains wreak havoc. With the onset of an epidemic, the government orders tenants to move out. Residents refuse despite utilities bei...