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Yangsi
Jigme Lhundrup is the Yangsi, the reincarnation of a greatly revered Tibetan Buddhist meditation master. He must train to uphold this legacy from the age of four. Even with the loving support of his teachers and family, questions begin to arise about the place of his tradition in the modern world. |
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead
A marvelous documentary creation"- CM MAGAZINE. Narrated by Leonard Cohen, this enlightening two-part series explores the sacred text and boldly visualizes the afterlife according to its profound wisdom. An ancient source of strength and guidance, The Tibetan Book of the Dead remains an essential teaching of the spiritual cultures of the Himalayas. |
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Hippie Masala: Forever In India
In the 1960s and 1970s thousands of hippies journeyed east to India in search of enlightenment. All, in the end, embraced this land of ancient traditions and transcendent pleasures as their own. Hippie Masala is a fascinating chronicle about aging flower children who, after fleeing Western civilization, found a new way of life in India. |
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Chinese Odyssey 2002
A movie that "packs a lot of laughs and action into a beautifully shot 105 minutes" (Variety), Chinese Odyssey 2002 follows royal heirs Princess Wushuang (Asian pop diva and Chungking Express heroine Faye Wong) and future Emperor Zheng De (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon's Chen Chang) as they escape the Forbidden City to taste life among Ming Dynasty China's have-nots. Combining swordfights, slapstick, satire, songs, and genuine sentiment into a lightning-paced big-screen farrago of "identity changes and gender confusions; plot contortions, clever puns and a great punchline" (Time Out London). |
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Fallen Angels
Wong Kar-Wai's Fallen Angels intertwines exhilarating tales of love and isolation, primarily the unconsummated love affair between a contract Killer and the ravishing female Agent who books his assignments and cleans up after his jobs. Newly remastered from HD source. |
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Happy Together
Newly remasted from a High-Definition master, Wong Kar-Wai's Happy Together is a stunning display of filmmaking style and a touching story of love on the brink of dissolution. |
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Wonderful Town
Aditya Assarat's "delicate, delightful, and nearly note-perfect debut feature" (Salon.com). An architect from Bangkok pulls up to a motel in a nearby ghost town of deserted streets. His obscured past finds symmetry in the repressed history of the girl he meets and pursues. |
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Eagle Shooting Heroes
Executive produced by Wong Kar-Wai, Jeffrey Lau's "absurd 1993
masterpiece" (Austin Chronicle) Eagle Shooting Heroes is a fast, funny,
flamboyant, and wildly imaginative martial arts farrago. |
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Blind Mountain
In his first film since the acclaimed Blind Shaft, director Li Yang turns from corruption of China's illegal
mining to the even more horrifying illegal trade of prostitution. |
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Intangible Asset No. 82
After hearing a rare recording of Korean Shaman Kim Seok-Chul's music, Australian drummer Simon Barker commits to find and learn from the enigmatic master. |
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Kimjongilia: The Flower of Kim Jong Il
The first film to fully expose the humanitarian crisis of North Korea, this stylish, deeply moving documentary is centered around astonishing interviews with survivors of North Korea's vast and largely hidden prison camps, and interspersed with archival footage of North Korean propaganda films and original art performances. |
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Sushi: The Global Catch
Blue Fin Tuna is a valuable commodity that faces potential extinction due to the explosion in the popularity of sushi worldwide. Once a Japanese delicacy, today the consumption of sushi represents a four billion dollar industry. Is the current sushi trade sustainable? What can be done to ensure that the prized Blue Fin Tuna exists for future generations to come? This timely documentary poses important questions that all sushi lovers should give thought to before placing their next order of sushi. |
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United Red Army
This epic docudrama by Koji Wakamatsu depicts the rise, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, of the far-left Japanese paramilitary group known as the United Red Army. The film portrays in harrowing fashion how the army disintegrated as they began to torture and murder their own members during training sessions in the mountains. |
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Caterpillar
Caterpillar tells the story of a village woman given the grueling task of looking after (and fulfilling the sexual needs of) her quadruple amputee husband, a Japanese soldier in the Second Sino-Japanese War who has been decreed a "War God" by the Emperor. The film serves as a powerful indictment of Japan's militaristic, nationalistic past. |
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The Juche Idea
Inspired by the real-life story of the South Korean director kidnapped in the 70's to invigorate the North Korean film industry, the film follows Yoon Jung Lee, a young video artist invited to work at a Juche art residency on a North Korean collective farm. The story is told through the films she made at the residency as well as interviews with a Bulgarian filmmaker and even a brief sci-fi movie. |
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The Red Chapel
In this Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning film, a trio of Danish comedians, who call themselves "The Red Chapel," pretend to be regime sympathizers and mount an absurd variety show in Pyongyang. The result is an unconventional, hilarious and damning peek into a totalitarian regime. |
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Dim Sum
Acclaimed director Wayne Wayne directs an all-star cast in this endearing tale. A Chinese immigrant widow faces the New Year with apprehension after it was foretold that it would be the year she would die. |
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Sunrise/Sunset
The daily life of the Dalai Lama is brought home with remarkable intimacy in Sunrise/Sunset. Granted total access to His Holiness for 24 hours, this is a day in the life of the Dalai Lama from when he wakes up at 3AM until his bedtime at dusk. |
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The Sun
The final portrait in a series on the lives of dictators by Alexander Sokurov, THE SUN is a re-imagining of Emperor Hirohito's final days in power during the waning days of WWII. Hirohito wanders through his palace in a child-like state of denial. But reality soon intrudes as American soldiers overrun his manicured gardens and visions of Hiroshima invade his dreams. No longer a God among men, Hirohito is forced accept the terms of the occupation and, even more dramatically, the renunciation of his divinity. |
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Crossing the Line
The first Western interview with Comrade Joe, James Joseph Dresnok, an American soldier who defected to North Korea in 1962 and has embraced life in the secret state ever since. From the director of A STATE OF MIND. |
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In Between Days
Award winner at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, IN BETWEEN DAYS conveys "an extraordinary sense of intimacy" in depicting a young Korean immigrant's journey toward self-discovery. |
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Days of Being Wild
In his first hypnotic backward glance at Hong Kong in 1960, Wong Kar-Wai follows its half dozen characters through their individual searches for intimacy. With Leslie Cheung (FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE) and Maggie Cheung (IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE). |
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Take Care of My Cat
A surprise hit at festivals from Rotterdam to Toronto, this first time film by a young Korean woman is an original and engaging look at young women trying to navigate the traumatic journey to adulthood. |
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Chi-hwa-seon
Im Kwon-Taek's ninety-fifth film tells the story of renowned nineteenth-century painter Jang Seung-up (Choi Min-Sik), an artist whose revolutionary work - and persona - forever changed the face of Korean art. Sweeping yet personal, Chihwaseon paints its pictures in passionate brushstrokes, befitting the life of a tumultuous artist with a lust for ife. |
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Life On A String
The harsh, breathtaking central Chinese plains provide the backdrop for this fable of a young blind boy who is tutored on life's higher truths by a wizened old man. |
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Dersu Uzala
In this Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film, Japanese director Akira Kurosawa stages an extraordinary adventure of comradeship and survival. |
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Broken Blossoms
The heartbreaking story of a waterfront waif (Lillian Gish) from the Limehouse district of London who escapes the abuse of her father (Donald Crisp) through a doomed relationship with a Chinese immigrant (Richard Barthelmess). |
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As Tears Go By
WKW's impressive first feature ably converts the director's now celebrated
visual style into an incendiary "Heroic Bloodshed" street opera á la John Woo. |
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Untold Scandal
Combining bold erotica, historical detail, and eloquent tragedy, Untold Scandalroots Choderlos de Laclo' Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 19th Century Korea. Previously set in pre-revolutionary France (Dangerous Liaisons) and in a wealthy New York prep school (Cruel Intentions), this version of the timeless Gallic tale of treachery, lust, and sacrifice "may even be the best of the lot" (The Los Angeles Times). |
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Cops vs. Thugs
In his 1975 masterpiece COPS VS. THUGS, director Kinji Fukasaku (BATTLE ROYALE) paints a dynamic portrait of flourishing corruption and unchecked greed using gritty 70s cop movie elan and true crime expose' detail. Brimming with irresistibly brutal vitality, COPS VS. THUGS demonstrates why Fukasaku counts filmmakers Takeshi Kitano, Quentin Tarantino and Takeshi Miike as devoted acolytes. |
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The President's Last Bang
Imaginatively recreating the 1979 assassination of South Korean President Park Chung-hee, writer-director Im Sang-soo dares to make complex, realistically neurotic characters out of the most polarizing figures in modern Korean political history. |
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The Stairway to the Distant Past
"I get 50,000 Yen a day, plus expenses," growls tough-talking detective Maiku "Mike" Hama (Masatoshi Nagase) in The Stairway to the Distant Past, the second part of director Kaizo Hayashi's stylish modern-day Japanese film noir trilogy. Picking up where The Most Terrible Time in My Life left off, Stairway delivers a knockout combination of widescreen color visuals and savvy pulp storytelling more luridly violent, outrageously ironic and sincerely affecting than its predecessor. |
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I Have Found It
A Bollywood retelling of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. |
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The Blue Kite
The most acclaimed and controversial film of
the new Chinese cinema, THE BLUE KITE
traces the fate of a Beijing boy and his family
as they experience the political and social upheavals
in 1950s and '60s China. |
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