A

2017 / 11 / 09
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The film offers a doubled-barreled perspective not found in television news reports, one that relativizes the opposites of ‘them’ (the young Aum converts) and ‘us’ (the police, the media, myself,...

A2

2017 / 11 / 09
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Presented by”A” Production Committee, the filmmaker’s purpose with “A2” was different. Rather than explain Aum, he wanted to show how Japanese society has deteriorated. “A2” is much more revealing...

Ask the Wind

2017 / 11 / 09
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The eye and ear are endlessly ravished in this film. Composed as a rhapsody on the exquisite Japanese landscape in the Southwestern part of the country, this film is at turns poetic and violent....

Blessed

2017 / 11 / 09
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Toshiko’s lover Sakura performs on stage in a strip club. In between shows, she decides to look for the apartment where Toshiko spent ten years of her childhood. But the building is now deserted....

Farewell

2017 / 11 / 09
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Starting out as a well-intentioned documentary in the protection of endangered species, this film gradually takes in another aspect as it plunges into the beauty, the silence, the despair and the...

Homemade Sake

2017 / 11 / 09
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The director lives with his father in a public housing complex. The director’s father, a painter, brews sake in plastic bottles. The camera follows each step in the intricate process. The director...

Kaleidoscope

2017 / 11 / 09
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Kim lives in L.A. In the summer of 2000, when she visited Korea, she filmed the daily life of her family on a DV camera. Since her family had never seen themselves on TV, she thought the video world...

Kya Ka Ra Ba A

2017 / 11 / 09
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In search of herself and mourning an absent father, Naomi KAWASE imagines she must engrave the stigmata of her painful and poetic experience on the world. It is hard to accept something ‘as it is’,...

Manzan Benigaki

2017 / 11 / 09
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Using film footage and composition notes left by Shinsuke OGAWA. Chinese director PENG shot additional film and completed the work, which depicts the manufacturing process of the Kaminoyama red...

Mudang: Reconciliation for the Live and the Dead

2017 / 11 / 09
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A long time ago in Korea, Mu (Korean Shamanism) ensured the well-being of the country and its people through a Gut which was effectively the passageway between the living and the dead. This work...

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