Asian Film: Other Genres

After the Crescent (1997)
118min. Other, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Bryan Chang (China)
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Summary:	Presents several hours in the life of 17 year-old Meme Lam (newcomer Ho Pui-yi, giving a very natural and unaffected performance). Meme's father has been left bewildered by the death of his wife and wanders around in a mental haze. her little brother is irresponsible, and her mildly retarded elder brother requires constant attention. (Meng Gang)
Source:	Reel Asian

And So And So (2000)
72min. Other, Colour
Language(s):	Cantonese
Director/Filmmaker:	Kwok Wai-lung (China)
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Summary:	A look at life in Hong Kong from an outsiders point of view, exalting the mystery and surprise of ordinary life. This unusual film is composed on ten separate an bizarre stories which are by turns humorous, wistful, romantic and totally unexpected. The offhandedness of the title. And So and So, is deceptive. this is a highly skillfully crafted film. (Reel Asian)
Source:	Reel Asian

Automatic Writing (1996)
82min. Other, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Ann Marie (Canada)
Production Company:	Independent Television Service
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Setting:	USA
Summary:	A filmmaker employs Automatic Writing to discover the story of her great great grandfather, only to find a whole lot of ancestors lining up to have their story told... their own way. Based on the autobiography "The Doctor Comes Home", by So To Ming, who was born during the Boxer Rebellion, was orphaned, kidnapped, taken to America to work on a brothel, and returned to china to become a doctor and start a nursing hospital. and had an interesting relationship with his family. (IMDB)
Source:	Reel Asian

Carriage (1998)
22min. Other, Black & White
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Director/Filmmaker:	Annie Lau (Canada)
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Summary:	A young, pregnant Chiense immigrant girl trudges through her days trying to make ends meet. In a lonely country where she has no friends or family and an absentee husband, her will to live is put to the test as she is lured by the warmth of death. (Reel Asian)
Source:	Reel Asian

Cowgirl (1996)
17min. Other, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Sunny Lee (USA)
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Summary:	Short about an eastern girl with a western heart. Its coming of age message: mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be cowgirls. (Reel Asian)
Source:	Reel Asian

Fish and Chips (1996)
11min. Other, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Justin Lin (USA)
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Summary:	Mini drama unfold on both sides of the counter of a family run mom and pop restaurant. (Reel Asian)
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Fufu The Worldweary (1998)
153min. Other, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Obitani Yuuri (Japan)
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Summary:	FuFu the worldweary is an epic length videotape inspired by the directors Dream Book, where Obtani Yuuri recorded fantastic dreams every dya in the intense heat of that abnormally hot summer of 1995. (Reel Asian)
Source:	Reel Asian

Hing Dai And the Man (1997)
14min. Other, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Patrick Yu & Kevin Fukanaga (USA)
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Summary:	A moral tale about two drug runners, one Chinese, the other white who are confronted by a motorcycle cop. The pig turns out to be a Chinese brotherman. Now what? (Reel Asian)
Source:	Reel Asian

Jumping at Shadows (1997)
6min. Other, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Steve Yamane (USA)
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Summary:	More than an experimental film, this is a three year travel diary through Paris, Tokyo, Los Angeles and San Francisco. (Reel Asian)
Source:	Reel Asian

Life Tastes Good (1999)
90min. Other, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Philip Kan Gotanda (USA)
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Setting:	USA
Summary:	Two San Francisco detectives discover a corpse in an abandoned car. From the dead man's wallet and a tape recorder, they determine the man was a money launderer. The story is then told in flashback, narrated by the dead man. Seems he was being pursued after robbing a partner who had been robbing him. Hiding out in a warehouse, he tries to re-establish contact with his children. In the warehouse, he then is contacted by a woman who frequents it because her husband died there and becomes obsessed with its new inhabitant as the reincarnate of her husband. Of course, following all of these goings-on, he ultimately must face down his pursuers. (IMDB)
Source:	Reel Asian

Made in Hong Kong (1997)
108min. Other, Colour
Language(s):	Cantonese
Director/Filmmaker:	Fruit Chan (China)
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Setting:	China
Summary:	Autumn Moon (Sam Lee), a low-rent triad living in Hong Kong, struggles to find meaning in his hopelessly violent existence. (IMDB)
Source:	Reel Asian

Obits (1998)
95min. Other, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Rea Tajiri, Justin Lin, Michael Idemoto, Eric Nakamura, & Chris Chan Lee (USA)
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Summary:	Obits 1- Little Murders: A surreal musical short that takes place New Years Eve 1997, Obits 2- Breezes: A momentary fling in the cirt of Las Vegas. Obits 3- Enter the Drag/Drag On: Bruce Lee! Interviews with Bruce's daughter. Obits 4- America 0 of 30 (Letters to Wendi): A young man, returning home, starts from the beginning and finds out that a few things have changed. Obits 5- Get-The-Digits: Rose moves from the Midwest to LA and finds romance. A love story about solutde, revenge and death. (Reel Asian)
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Post Concussion (1999)
82min. Other, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Daniel Yoon (USA)
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Summary:	First-time filmmaker Daniel Yoon's irreverent, semi-autobiographical film "Post Concussion" is a brutally funny, unsentimental yet oddly inspiring portrayal of one man's journey after a serious head injury. (IMDB)
Source:	Reel Asian

Strawberry Fields (1997)
90min. Other, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Rea Tajiri (USA)
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Setting:	USA
Summary:	Story of a Japanese American teenager goes on a journey from Chicago to California to visite the Poston War Relocation Center zone after seeing a photo of her granfather standing there.
Source:	Reel Asian

Sunsets (1997)
17min. Other, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Michael Idemato & Eric Nakamura (USA)
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Summary:	Dave (Nicholas Constant) and Mark (Michael Idemoto) are two buddies who have recently graduated from high school in Watsonville, California. Dave works in a comic book store, while Mark is preparing to go to college in the fall. When their friend Gary (Josh Brand) is released from jail, the three spend most of the summer drinking beer, chasing girls, and committing petty crime. As the fall approaches, and with it the first stages of responsible adulthood, the three realize that the days are numbered for their friendship as they know it, with moments of wild energy and adventure facing off against boredom as the summer winds to a close. (Alibris)
Source:	Reel Asian

The Goddess of 1967 (2000)
118min. Other, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Ciara Law (Australia)
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Summary:	"Goddess" stands for French "Déesse", the nickname of Citroën DS, the name of a famous car designed in the fifties. A young and well-situated Japanese man is dreaming of such a car, and one fine day he finds an offering on the net. He calls the seller (a man living in Australia), they agree upon the price and so he travels to Australia in order to buy the car. But when he reaches his destination, there's chaos all around: The seller as well as his wife lay dead in their house and a 17 year old girl lets him in and offers him something to eat. He walks out with horror but then comes back because he forgot to ask about the car... The girl lets him see the car, and then they start a 5 day trip through the outback, and, at the same time, a trip back in time into the early youth of the girl and into her family's chronicle. (Clause Horn)
Source:	Reel Asian

Tough Bananas
23min. Other, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Keith Lock (Canada)
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Bob Lin and Ted Wang meet in their schoolyard on a fateful day when Bob is bullied by bigger boys. It is Ted who heroically comes to his rescue, and after that Bob and Ted become close friends. Together they share a string of goofy, dead end misadventures. (Keith Lock)
Source:	Reel Asian

Under the Willow Tree (1997)
52min. Other, Colour
Language(s):	English
Director/Filmmaker:	Dora Nipp (Canada)
Production Company:	National Film Board of Canada
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Setting:	Canada
Summary:	Narrator/director Dora Nipp uses pictures from an old trunk and the memories of six Chinese Canadian women to take viewers on a fascinating personal journey into a little known part of our heritage. The experiences of her subjects, all born before World War II, chronicle the hardships and joys of growing up as part of the Chinese community in Canada.
Source:	Reel Asian

Yellow (1998)
90min. Other, Colour
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Director/Filmmaker:	Chris Chan Lee (USA)
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Summary:	The film is about the harrowing graduation night of eight Korean-American high school youths in Los Angeles that culminates in a violent crime that will forever change their lives. (Wikepedia)
Source:	Reel Asian