A Window on Asian Cinema

• Mike DE LEON
• Philippines
• 2000
• 93min

The late 19th century figure Jose Rizal is a national hero of the Philippines. He was a renowned artist, but he is better known as the spiritual leader of the national movement aga...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• CHANG Tso Chi
• Taiwan,Japan
• 2002
• 109min

The Best of Times is a coming-of-age story that combines the depressive sensibility of film noir with conventions of the Taiwanese family melodrama. Wei and Jie are cousins who wor...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• SABU
• Japan
• 2002
• 87min

Another comedy from director Sabu, The Blessing Bell follows the trail of a man who may be the luckiest unlucky person. The factory shutdown leaves Igarashi jobless on his first da...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL
• Thailand
• 2002
• 125min

Blissfully Yours introduces the issue of Burmese illegal immigrants in Thailand. Min is one such man from Myanmar who falls in love with the Thai, Roong. As Min sets out to find a ...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Junji SAKAMOTO
• Japan
• 2002
• 116min

Bukunchi - My House is a film by one of the foremost directors of the 90s Japanese independent movement, Junji Sakamoto. It is a bitter-sweet film about two brothers fighting again...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Hirosi Shimizu
• Japan
• 2002
• 105min

This is the second film directed by Hiroshi Shimizu, who had worked as Takeshi Kitano’s assistant director. The film comically depicts the lives of three underdogs. Iwano, in his t...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Liu Bing Jian
• China
• 2002
• 91min

What goes on at a funeral reveals the culture and customs of that particular region or society. Liu Bingjian’s Cry Woman looks at Chinese society through such scenes. First, the Ch...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Wu Mi-Sen
• Taiwan
• 2002
• 90min

In 1999, the year before the millennium, Hei-shu, a long-term unemployed man, finally gets a job in a local musical band performing at funerals and weddings. One day, Hei-shu’s cat...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Nan T. Achnas
• Indonesia
• 2002
• 75min

Budi and Rosi, who are assigned the important task of hoisting a flag on Monday’s at school, carefully bring the flag home. There is a lot to do; wash the flag, let it dry, and iro...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• ZHANG Yuan
• China
• 2002
• 98min

Zhang Yuan, who has been ceaselessly portraying the everyday occurrences of modern Chinese society, is a director who strives for a ‘spectacle of destruction’. Through the lens of ...