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FOCUS ON ASIA ARCHIVES
SEPT 1~SEPT 11
Excluding Sept.4 and days the library and our theater are closed.

Films shown previously at the Focus on Asia Fukuoka International Film Festival. All films carry Japanese as well as English subtitles.


SCHEDULE for September 2011

REVIEWS TO THE FOCUS ON ASIA ARCHIVES PROGRAM
¡Light in Dream (Vietnam) ¡Red Persimmon (Taiwan)
¡Beautiful Flower (Nepal)¡Thatched Memories (China)
¡Fire Fighters (Sri Lanka) ¡ Festival (Korea)
¡Woman on Fire Looking for Water (Malaysia)
¡Maybe Some Other Time (Iran) ¡La Visa Loca (Philippines)


Light in Dream (Vietnam)
Dir: Do Minh Tuan
Cast: Tuan Dung, Tu Trang,
1987
35mm
BW
74 min
English subtitles
Vietnam after the Doi Moi Economic Reforms. A family deteriorates in a new society while a boy retains his pure state of mind.

Maybe Some Other Time (Iran)
Dir: Bahram Beizai
Cast: Dariush Farhang, Susan Taslimi
1988
35mm
Color
160 min.
English subtitles
A television producer sees his wife in a car with another man. He tracks the man down and discovers a big secret about his wife...

Red Persimmon (Taiwan)
Dir: Wang Tong
Cast: Tao Su, Shih Chun
1996
35mm
Color
167 min.
English subtitles
One family moves from Mainland China to Taiwan in 1949. The artistic boy depicted in the film is believed to be the film director in his youth.

Festival (Korea)
Dir: Im Kwon-Taek
Cast: Anh Sung-Kee, Oh Jung-Hae
1996
35mm
Color
100 min.
 English subtitles
The 87 year-old mother of a popular author suddenly dies. The author immediately rushes to the countryside with his wife and daughter for a three day funeral where alcohol and food is served to all who attend in an almost festive atmospherec

Thatched Memories (China)
Dir: Xu Geng
Cast: Cao Dan, Wu Qing qing
1999
35mm
Color
106 min.
English subtitles
China in the 1960s. A school principal is understandably harsh to his child in elementary school. Then a little girl transfers to the school and rumor flies that she is school principalfs illegitimate child.

A Beautiful Flower (Nepal)
Dir: Nubin Subba
Cast: Anupama Subba, Alok Nembang
2002
35mm
Color
113min.
English subtitles
In a village of the Limbu ethnic minority in Nepal, a young man proposes to a woman and they marry but he dies and she has a miscarriage. She returns home until she receives another proposal of marriage...


Fire Fighters (Sri Lanka)
Dir: Somaratne Dissanayake
Cast: Jackson Anthony,
@@ @ Jayalath Manoratne
2004/ 35mm
Color
117min.
English subtitles
In 19th Century Sri Lanka where hunting in prohibited, a man hunts for a living in the mountains. A priest settles in the mountains and tells the man it is wrong to kill. The man then tries to drive the priest out of the mountains...

La Visa Loca (Philippines)
Dir: Mark Meilly
Cast: Robin Padilla, Rufa Mae Quinto
2005
35mm
Color
107min.
English subtitles
A taxi cab driver in the Philippines wants to work in the US but canft get a visa no matter how many times he applies. One day he meets an American TV producer and tries to win his favor to get his visa...

Woman on Fire Looks for Water (Malaysia)
Dir: Woo Ming Jin
Cast: Chung Shun Yuan, Foo Fei Ling
2009/35mm
Color
100min.
English subtitles
The story of a fisherman of Chinese descent and his son who live by a big river in the Malaysian countryside. The man regrets not marrying his lover who lives nearby and the son is interested in a girl but she is only interested in marrying a rich man...

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