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The Horse Thieves tells the story of gangsters who murder the father of a young family and steal the herd of horses that belonged to the village.
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An old Chinese woman visits Japan to find her missing daughter whom she adopted in post-WWII China. Her granddaughter and a retired Japanese policeman join her search.
A film director wanders the world alone after breaking up with her boyfriend, finally gaining inner peace.
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Toichi es un barquero que transporta a los aldeanos a un pueblo al otro lado del río. Además de pilotar un bote para los aldeanos durante todo el día, apenas tiene comunicación con los demás, excepto con Genzo, un joven vecino. Aguas arriba, se está construyendo un gran puente. Todo el mundo está emocionado, pero Toichi tiene sentimientos encontrados al respecto. Un día, Toichi conoce a una misteriosa joven. Como no tiene familia ni lugar a donde ir, Toichi le deja quedarse con él, pero este encuentro comienza a traer cambios en la vida de Toichi.
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Journalist Guo lives together with her mother and daughter in the same residence. The relation of three generations looks placid but there is actually a fierce undercurrent of rebellion and resistance.
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Double revenge in two separate stories. Set in both a near future and the historical past, revenge is served not by violence, but by love.
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Kanjaki, a middle-aged man, goes to a quiet countryside village. He puts his helmet on a shrunken old woman whom he meets by chance in a shop. As soon as he presses the buttons on the helmet one by one, she suddenly remembers forgotten happy moments and is rejuvenated. This is just the beginning. Kanjaki goes on to make the village people recall their happy pasts, but his face is lined with worry and a sadness that deepens. What is the secret of this helmet? And what is he trying to do with it? Director Sabu’s Happiness suggests happiness and suffering are intertwined through the unusual scenario of a helmet reminding people of the happiest moments of their lives. Sabu convincingly portrays the notion that memory is the source of both happiness and suffering, and how memory affects our lives.
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China, a finales de 1999. Tao, una joven de Fenyang, es cortejada por sus dos amigos de la infancia, Zang y Lianzi. Zang, propietario de una estación de gasolina, está destinado a un futuro prometedor, mientras que Liang trabaja en una mina de carbón. Su corazón está dividido entre los dos hombres, y debe tomar una decisión que sellará su destino y el de su futuro hijo.
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En 1982 un pequeño grupo de cineastas taiwaneses reinventó el cine asiático, entre ellos, Hou Hsiao-Hsien y Edward Yang. Viajar desde Europa a América Latina a Asia, Flowers of Taipei se propone evaluar la influencia global del nuevo cine de Taiwán.
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Dahai, minero exasperado por la corrupción de los dirigentes de su pueblo, decide pasar a la acción. San'er, un trabajador emigrante, descubre las infinitas posibilidades que le ofrece su arma. Xiaoyu, recepcionista en una sauna, no soporta más el acoso de un cliente rico. Xiaohui pasa de un trabajo a otro en condiciones cada vez más degradantes. Cuatro personajes, cuatro provincias, una reflexión sobre China contemporánea: una sociedad con un desarrollo económico colosal poco a poco erosionado por la violencia. (FILMAFFINITY)
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24 City chronicles the dramatic closing of a once-prosperous state-owned factory in Chengdu, southwest China and its conversion into a sprawling luxury apartment complex. Three generations, eight characters : old workers, factory executives and yuppies, their stories melt into the History of China.
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Soon after he lands in America, Ali, a Muslim man from Pakistan, begins his search for his estranged wife, Nadia. On his journey, Ali meets with Teppei, a Japanese traveller hitchhiking his way across America, and Sarah, a local trailer park girl, who help him in his search. The three travellers succeed in finding Nadia, who, to Ali’s dismay, is living a new life in Phoenix with another man. Ali spends the rest of his stay in America with Teppei and Sarah, anxiously wondering where his life is leading. In the brief time they are together, the three companions commit to helping one another. Ali, Teppei and Sarah begin a new journey, to find their own individual identities and in the process they find each other. Big River is a road movie, a tale about the borderless realm of friendship and its ability to transcend culture.
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La película gira al rededor de Tao, una cantante del Beijing World Park, y su novio Tai-Sheng, quien se ocupa de la seguridad del parque temático. Pero los enamorados empiezan a distanciarse cuando otros personajes también ejercen su poder de seducción..
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Three disaffected youths live in Datong in 2001, part of the new "Birth Control" generation. Fed on a steady diet of popular culture, both Western and Chinese, the characters of Unknown Pleasures represent a new breed in the People's Republic of China, one detached from reality through the screen of media and the internet.
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China's rapid changes from the late-1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.
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Acclaimed director Abolfazl Jalili offers a compassionate story of the young Afghan refugee who lives illegally in Iran. 14-year-old Kaim drifts to the Delbaran crossing on the Afghan-Iran border, where he finds work at a coffee shop frequented by truck drivers. He feels at home in this small oasis of friendliness, though the sounds of war can be heard in the background, violent bandits prowl the roads, and opium is everywhere. As we watch Kaim run from one task to another day after day, we soon realize that we are watching a boy who is being cheated out of his childhood.
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Con una pizarra al hombro, un grupo de profesores recorre las montañas kurdas, en la frontera entre Irán e Iraq, a la búsqueda de alumnos. La lucha diaria por la supervivencia no deja a la población ni tiempo ni fuerzas para aprender. Dos profesores, Said y Reboir, se separan del grupo: Reboir encuentra unos niños dedicados al contrabando de objetos robados; Said se une a un grupo de ancianos kurdos que, antes de morir, desean volver a ver la tierra donde nacieron, en territorio iraquí. Las guerra se mantiene siempre en un segundo plano, pero está omnipresente en el constante ruido de las ametralladoras.
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Filme centrado en las relaciones entre cortesanas y hombres poderosos en el marco de suntuosos burdeles de Shanghai en 1880.
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Sukezo, un artista de cómic manga agricultor, tiene el negocio del arte rupestre mediante la creación de una tienda en un cobertizo junto al río. Él se esfuerza mucho para tener éxito, pero el negocio no va bien y la familia se vuelve cada vez más pobre.
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El detective Azuma es un policía solitario de métodos expeditivos que se ve envuelto en asuntos turbios al intentar salvar a su amigo y compañero corrupto Iwaki, que suministra y se abastece de sustancias confiscadas por la policía. Cuando una organización criminal de narcotraficantes yakuza asesina a su amigo y secuestra a su hermana, Azuma inicia una violenta y despiadada forma de justicia.
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A supernatural arthouse drama.
