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I Want a Job
Korean Movie - 2000
Bo Hyun escaped from North Korea to South Korea leaving his family behind. He tries to get a new job instead of working in a small amusement hall, but it's not as easy as to fit in to new circumstances. Detective Joe…
Boys for Beauty
Taiwanese Movie - 1999
A frank and candid portrait of the lives and family relations of three gay teenagers in Taipei. One breaks up with his boyfriend before going abroad to study, the other craves for love, and the third one moonlights as…
The New God
Japanese Movie - 19996.0
From fin-de-siècle Japan, miscommunication and comical interaction between an ultra-nationalist punk band and a left-wing filmmaker who opposes the Emperor system. Through the odd exchange arises a picture of the Japanese…
Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women
Korean Movie - 1999
A powerful and emotional documentary about Korean women forced into sexual servitude by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. (Source: IMDb)
Gi Rahitzu
Taiwanese Movie - 1999
Artist Rahic Talif came from the Amis ethnic group but hid his Indigenous identity when young. It wasn't until he travel around Asia and saw art works created by Taiwanese Indigenous peoples that he felt the calling…
A Man with HIV
Chinese Movie - 1999
After volunteering as a blood donor, the HIV virus is found in 31-year-old Li Zi Liang. He is immediately fired by his boss for fear of infection. Every time he walks on the street, he is surrounded by groups of people…
81, Hae Jeok became the Disco King
Korean Movie - 1999
Three boys are high school gangsters. Two boys discover their friend has been absent from school because his father is sick. He has been working as a janitor and his sister got a job in a lousy disco. The three boys…
Kaleidoscope
Japanese Movie - 1999
A photographer, Machiko Ono, and a filmmaker, Naomi Kawase, challenge each other to shoot--one to photograph the other to film--two young actresses, one from Tokyo, the other from the countryside. The photographer seeks…
A Secret Buried for 50 Years: The Story of Taiwanese "Comfort Women"
Taiwanese Movie - 1998
This is Taiwan's first documentary about comfort women. The audience gets a glimpse of history as 13 "grandmothers" speak of their unspeakable past, unknown even to their family, in front of the camera. (Source: Visible…
Jounetsu Tairiku
Japanese TV Show - 1998, 1236 episodes8.0
By closely covering the daily lives and activities of the “passionate people,” this 25-minute documentary depicts the charm and real self of an athlete, a performer, a musician, a scholar and many other who are active…
Not Simply a Wedding Banquet
Taiwanese Movie - 1997
The first public gay wedding in Taiwan has stirred up considerable controversy, including a local campaign to ban this film. It tells the story of Yosheng and Gary, the first gay couple to have a public wedding in Taiwan.…
The Weald
Japanese Movie - 1997
The elderly people living in the forest areas of the Yoshino Mountains and the village of Nishi-Yoshino are resilient loners. Kawase records them in their daily activities, revealing their humorous and frank philosophies…
Habitual Sadness 2
Korean Movie - 19978.0
In World War II, Japan forced many South Korean girls into sexual slavery. Known as "comfort women", they were abducted as teenagers and shipped off to the front to serve as many as 30 troopers a day. In 1991, some of…
SAWADA From Aomori to Vietnam The Life and Death of Kyoichi Sawada, Pulitzer Prize-winning Photograp
Japanese Movie - 1997
A documentary about the life of Kyoichi Sawada, a news photographer who won many awards including the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert Capa Prize for his coverage of the Vietnam War. The film uses testimonies from family…
Kokoro no Uchi
Japanese Movie - 1997
Oki fuses documentary elements with narrative cinema to such an extent that it is difficult to distinguish one from the other. The film is both the story of two men who fall in love on a beach and a faithful document…
Japanese Summers of a Filipino Fundoshi
Japanese Movie - 1996
Filipinos and Japanese came from the same origin 300 years ago and the proof is many tribes in the Philippines still wear Fundochi, the costume for Sumo wrestlers. This is just for laughs, but the film does observe from…
Sun on the Horizon
Japanese Movie - 1996
The last piece of the trilogy, following Katatsumori and Seen the Heaven, filming her grandma and herself. Her gazes and insights are cast on the lovable beings in front of her eyes. (tmdb)
This World
Japanese Movie - 1996
The film takes shape through the form of a video exchange between Hirokazu Koreeda and Naomi Kawase. Each films the world around them and intimately reflects on their individual struggles with making films. (Source:…
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