Little Note (2009)

문재구는 자신을 고향인 섬에 묻어달라는 아버지 문덕배의 유언에 따라 꽃상여를 배에 싣고 섬으로 향한다. 하지만 재구의 친구이자 시인인 김철의 예상대로 섬에 가까워지자 섬 사람들의 맹렬한 반대가 시작되고 배를 섬에 대는 것조차 거부당한다. 가까스로 혼자 섬에 도착한 김철은 너무도 슬프게 아름다웠던 네 여인에 대한 추억과 그 해 여름날의 한 사건을 떠올린다. 1950년 한국전쟁이 일어나던 해 엄마가 없는 김철은 마을 모든 여성들의 품속에서 자란다. 딸이 죽자 정신이 나가 남편에게 버림받는 친구 재구의 어머니 넙도댁의 한과 타고난 색기로 동네 아낙들의 질시를 한몸에 받은 벌떡녀의 끼를 보며 호기심을 키웠으며 무녀가 된 업순네를 졸라 죽은 엄마의 영혼을 만나기도 했다. 하지만 어린 김철에게 가장 따뜻한 꿈과 허무한 죽음을 알게 해준 여자는 마을 아난들이 억지로 시집보내준 날 늙은 서방을 내쫓아버리고 아이들과 놀아주었으며 혼수상태에 빠진 철에게 젖을 물려주었던 바보 옥님이다. 그런 어느날 섬에 난리가 난다. 무장한 인민군들이 동네 사람들 중 반동분자를 색출하기 시작하자 섬사람들은 목숨을 부지하기 위해 이웃을 고발하기까지 한다. 이 모든 사태가 섬에서 쫓겨난 덕배의 농간에서 비롯되었다는 사실을 알게 된 섬사람들은 가슴 속에 큰 한을 안고 살아가게 된다.

While on a business trip in Shanghai, a man sees a woman he has had recurring dreams of.

사랑했지만 사랑을 잃어버린 세 남녀, 낯선 도시에서 만나다 [사연을 품은 채 타인의 도시에서 살아가는 세 남녀] 화려함과 퇴폐가 공존하는 L.A 다운타운에서 마사지 샵을 경영하며 혼자 살고 있는 써니. 지석은 헤어진 연인이 살고 있다는 이유만으로 뚜렷한 목적 없이 이곳에 와 써니 집 위층에 세를 든다. 한편, 지석의 옛 애인 영신이 ‘헬렌 정’이라는 가명으로 이 도시에서 심야 라디오 방송 ‘러브토크’를 진행하고 있다. 써니는 마사지 샵 청원 경찰인 랜디와, 지석은 클럽 댄서인 앨리스와, 그리고 영신은 같은 학교 유부남 선배와 각각 공허한 만남을 유지한다. 그렇게 세 사람은 낯선 도시의 어느 여름을 맞는다.

A portrait of urban anomie focusing on two bohemian artists who drift through the miasma of old Beijing in the 1980s.

Xiao Feng, a 13-year-old boy, spends his life wandering between his family house and the rehearsals of his older sister's band, but nobody seems to be aware of his existence.

Xu Daqin, a retired Chinese factory worker, returns to the remote Yunnan province, where he hopes to reconcile himself with the life and opportunity he passed up in this place 40 years ago.

A divorced couple learns that the only way to possibly save their daughter, who is suffering from blood cancer, is to have another child. The problem is they've both already remarried.

Gong Li stars in this low-key drama about a single mother who will do anything to provide for her son. Sun Liying (Li) struggles to care for her hearing-impaired child Zheng Da (Gao Xin) after her taxi driver husband divorces her. After Zheng Da gets his hearing aid smashed in a fight with classmates, Sun Liying sets out to raise 5,000 yuan (a small fortune) to buy him a replacement. A friend helps her set up an unauthorized bookstall, which soon gets raided by the police. Later she splits her time delivering newspapers and cleaning house for a rich businessman. This film was screened at the 2000 Berlin Film Festival.

In a Japanese military hospital, a mysterious pandemic strikes and quickly kills seemingly at random. A group of unconnected individuals must come to terms with their own impending deaths, and the fragile absurdity of life.

Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are finally released in secret, during a delicate trade-talk session between Vietnam and the United States. Captain Tom Watkins, the ex-prisoners' CO, begins to suspect that government-man Adam Roth, who is in charge of the debriefing, may be pursuing a hidden agenda that will result in the early deaths of Watkins and the five men under his command.

Set against the backdrop of the Boxer Rebellion and the takeover of the Forbidden City by foreign powers, the empress-dowager Cixi and her notorious chief eunuch fight a losing battle to preserve their corrupt and autocratic regime.

May, a woman singer from the mainland of China, suddenly loses her voice and has conflicts with Ah Lei, her producer and secret lover. In anger she goes to Old Town of Jingtong where she meets Xiao Mo, a warmhearted man. Xia Mo helps May find a place to stay, and finds her work at local restaurant. May finds happiness and consolation in the old streets of the small town, and her voice gets better and better.

A story of vengeance set in China’s wild Southwest, where brutality can be the norm rather than the exception.

Erotic drama set in an underground Tokyo club called The Bedroom, where the female clientele are drugged into a trance-like state and are subjected to different styles of bizarre, fetishistic sex by the male clientele.

Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the love to his mother.

When impoverished young bride Youyou (Zhang) collapses from hunger at the door of handsome buccaneer Pan Hao (You Yong), he immediately decides to have her, much to the chagrin of his current squeeze, Widow Ma (Jiang Yanqiang).

Huang is a taciturn detective, hired to catch the elusive Li Chonggao in an illicit tryst. Having failed that, he placates himself by collecting evidence: taking pictures of a rumpled bed or attempting to question the locals. When he meets the stunning Yu Ran, he suspects she may be the key to capturing Li, but she has secrets of her own.

Moody, atmospheric ghost story starring Mason as a retired tradesman who purchases an old mansion that has been vacant for 40 years because it is believed to be haunted by the spirit of a young woman who had died there. Unaware of the mansion's reputation, Mason and his wife Mullen move in and hire a young woman, Lockwood, to keep house. Soon after Lockwood's arrival, strange things begin to happen in the household, and it becomes apparent that she is possessed by the spirit of the dead girl, though Mason scoffs at the idea. On death's door and bedridden, Lockwood asks for the same doctor who treated the woman who died 40 years ago. He arrives and treats her. The next morning Lockwood is cured, and it is revealed by the police that the doctor's dead body was found in his carriage hours before the time Mason claims he arrived to see Lockwood. Convinced that not only the ghost of the girl but that of the doctor as well entered his home, Mason finally believes in the supernatural.