Asian Film: Drama
Chinese Chocolate (1996) |
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| 90min. Drama, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Yan Cui & Qi Chang (Canada) |
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| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQVXdVspWHI |
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| Setting: | Canada |
| Summary: | Searching for love abroad, two very different Chinese women, a dancer and a doctor, follow their dreams and journey west to Canada. (IMDB) |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
Freshmen (1998) |
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| 130min. Drama, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Tom Huang (USA) |
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| Summary: | The award-winning Freshmen follows the lives of four incoming freshmen from different backgrounds and different journeys: San Ling, a Chinese-American who is obsessed with pop-icon Billy Joel and loathes his Chinese side; Tonisha Watkins, an inner-city prodigy who struggles between being a pre-med student and paying the family bills; Rick Kennedy, a conservative East Coast transplant who wrestles with multi-cultural university life and dealing with a career choice he doesn't want anymore; and Judy Oz, a free-spirited party girl who takes on the college social scene until it spirals out of her control. We follow the four as they meet and interact in a history discussion class, as well as watching their stories as they continue, with and without each other, outside the classroom. T. (Tom Huang) |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
Hundred Percent (1998) |
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| 102min. Drama, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Eric Koyanagi (USA) |
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| Setting: | USA |
| Summary: | Three Asian men live in L.A. Isaac is a romantic coffee shop worker, who waits for the woman of his dreams, and loses his balance after meeting a femme fatale called Thaise. Slim is a Rastafarian smoking pot all the time, who is trying to elude a local mobster. Troy is an actor, who has to choose between his career and his girlfriend. (IMDB) |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
Love Story (1997) |
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| 20min. Drama, Black & White | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Ayana Osada (USA) |
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| Setting: | USA |
| Summary: | Boy meets girl. Girl meets boy. Boy meets boy. A love triangle set in Chinatown, NYC. (Asian American Film Database) |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
Motel Cactus (1997) |
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| 91min. Drama, Colour | |
| Language(s): | Korean |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Park Ki-Yong (Korea) |
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| Setting: | Korea |
| Summary: | Motel Cactus consists of four episodes, all of which take place in Room 407 of Motel Cactus, a love hotel in Seoul: (1.) A girl celebrates her birthday with her boyfriend, because it is the only place she feels entirely secure with him. (2.) A student has rented room 407 for several hours to shoot a scene with a girl for his video film, a college project. (3.) A salesman meets a woman in a bar. Both very drunk, they arrive in room 407. Afterwards he is back in the room, alone. (4.) He is soon joined by his old love from his college days. Both are vaguely hoping to rekindle their old relationship. (IMDB, Ralph Lange) |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
Shopping for Fangs (1997) |
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| 18min. Drama, Colour | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Quentin Lee & Justin Lin (Canada) |
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| Summary: | A married woman, who's been getting seductive phone calls from a lesbian, and a man, who believes he might be a werewolf, are about to find out who they deep down really are. (Reel Asian) |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
Standard Deviation (1998) |
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| 87min. Drama, Black & White | |
| Language(s): | English |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Samuel K. Lee (Canada) |
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| Summary: | Standard Deviation follows a maze of twists and turns created by five shady characters, all trying to outwit one another to gain the winning numbers for the next big city lottery draw. (Reel Asian) |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
The Day A Pig Fell Into The Well (1996) |
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| 115min. Drama, Colour | |
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| Director/Filmmaker: | Hung Sang-soo (Korea) |
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| Summary: | Tong-u, a plain married man in his thirties, visits Chônju (4 hour bus ride from Seoul) on a business trip. After endless incidents of waiting, his purpose continually frustrated, he has to spend the night in this strange place and has a disengaging encounter with a prostitute which however leaves him with 'consequences' due to a ruptured condom. (IMDB) |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
The Longest Summer (1998) |
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| 128min. Drama, Colour | |
| Language(s): | Cantonese |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Fruit Chan (China) |
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| Trailer/Excerpt/Film: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBrIKhdoSYU |
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| Summary: | It is July 1st of 1997, and Hong Kong is bright in celebration. The United Kingdom handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China leaves Ga Yin, and his fellow soldiers without work. Which leads them to find employment and money any way they can get it. Without much success, Ga Yin decides to join his brother Ga Suen in the triad gang world. (IMDB), Jason Gervais |
| Source: | Reel Asian |
The Power of Kangwon Province (1998) |
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| 110min. Drama, Colour | |
| Language(s): | Korean (English Subtitles) |
| Director/Filmmaker: | Hung Sang-soo (Korea) |
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| Summary: | Helmed by one of Korea's leading directors, Hong Sang-soo, Jisook joins two of her girlfriends for a holiday in Korea's Kangwon Province. But in an eerie twist of fate, her former lover, Sangkwon, plans a getaway for the same destination, where tragedy brings them together once again. (IMDB) |
| Source: | Reel Asian |