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Tag Archives: 2000s
Barking Dogs Never Bite AKA Flandersui gae (2000) Bong Joon Ho, Doona Bae, Sung-Jae Lee, Ho-jung Kim
The disconnections of urban life. Yun-ju is diffident, almost without affect; his wife is pregnant Read More »
The Tiger: An Old Hunter’s Tale AKA Daeho (2015) Hoon-jung Park, Min-sik Choi, Man-sik Jeong, Hong-pa Kim
While the Kingdom of Korea is under occupation by the Japanese Read More »
Water Wars (2014) Cirio H. Santiago, Jim Wynorski, Alvin Anson, Beau Ballinger, Monica Leigh
Catastrophic war, destroyed ecosystem, brink of extinction. War for the most valuable treasure of the time: water. Read More »
Another Heaven AKA Anaza hevun (2000) Jôji Iida, Yôsuke Eguchi, Miwako Ichikawa, Takashi Kashiwabara
A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim Read More »
Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name AKA Shiritsu tantei Hama Maiku: Namae no nai mori (2002) Shinji Aoyama, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyôka Suzuki, Nene Ohtsuka
Financially strapped private detective Hama Maike is hired by a businessman Read More »
And on the Third Day AKA Be Yom Hashlishi (2010) Moshe Ivgy, Hila Feldman, Sharon Alexander, Efrat Ben-Zur
This is a movie about people caught up in the moment just before a large or small change is about to take place in their lives. Read More »
The Desert AKA El desierto (2013) Christoph Behl, Victoria Almeida, Lautaro Delgado, Lucas Lagré
Axel, Jonathan and Ana live together in a house that seems like a bunker in a post-catastrophic world. Read More »
Be with Me (2005) Eric Khoo, Theresa Poh Lin Chan, Chiew Sung Ching, Lawrence Yong
“Be with me” consists of three stories of love vs. solitude : 1) An aging, lonesome shopkeeper doesn’t believe in life any more since his wife died. Read More »
Spain AKA Spanien (2012) Anja Salomonowitz, Tatjana Alexander, Cornelius Obonya, Grégoire Colin
A stranded stranger ends up in the wrong place and embarks upon a search for his rights, his money and human beings who still believe in God. Read More »