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121) Adrift in Tokyo
Publisher
Digital Media Rights
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Takemura has no friends and no family. He's a student but he doesn't have any particular ambitions. In other words, he isn't going anywhere fast. Were all this not enough, the sorry sad sack has a debt of 800,000 yen. Fukuhara, a surly debt collector with a glorious mullet, is on his case. After roughing Takemura up, he gives him an ultimatum-72 hours to pay up, or else. Takemura barely has his wits about him again when he runs across Fukuhara a second...
122) Your Day is My Night
Publisher
Canyon Cinema Foundation
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Immigrant residents of a “shift-bed” apartment in the heart of New York City’s Chinatown share their stories of personal and political upheaval. As the bed transforms into a stage, the film reveals the collective history of the Chinese in the United States through conversations, autobiographical monologues, and theatrical movement pieces. Shot in the kitchens, bedrooms, wedding halls, cafes, and mahjong parlors of Chinatown, this provocative...
123) Scandal Makers
Publisher
Digital Media Rights
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Mid 30's Nam Hyun-Soo is a popular radio DJ and entertainer. When he was younger, he was even more popular as a teen idol.. One day, his apartment doorbell rings and a young lady named Hwang Jung-Nam appears and a young boy appear on his doorstep. The young lady tells Hyun-Soo that he is her father and he is also a grandfather to her son Ki-Dong. Hyun-Soo not believing any of this, attempts to close the door, but when Jung-Nam threatens to go to...
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Waking the Green Tiger tells the dramatic story of the rise of the first major grassroots environmental movement in China, a significant development that could reshape the country. Seen through the eyes of farmers, journalists, activists and a former government insider, the film traces the historical evolution of the movement and highlights an extraordinary campaign to stop a huge dam project slated for the Upper Yangtze River in southern China.....
125) The Mission
Publisher
All Channel Films
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
When someone attempts to take out a mob boss named Mr. Lung, his brother Frank (Simon Yam) puts together a team of five bodyguards to protect him. At first the team is bored as nothing happens. After a close call, they pull themselves into a ruthlessly efficient unit.. Slowly, the personalities of the individual bodyguards come to light in snapshot scenes. But when the threat to Mr. Lung is resolved, their troubles really begin. One of them is accused...
126) Hard To Believe
Publisher
Swoop Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
IT’S HAPPENED BEFORE: Governments killing their own citizens for their political or spiritual beliefs. But it’s never happened like this...It’s happened so often that the world doesn’t always pay attention. But is economic influence the reason, that this time, it’s going largely unreported? It’s hard to believe that doctors would carve up innocent people so their organs could be sold. It’s even harder to believe that major media are...
Publisher
Digital Media Rights
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
During a state visit to Japan the Korean president gets involved in a heated debate with the Japanese prime minister over the origins of kimchi, with the latter boldly claiming that kimchi was originally from Japan, thus an original Japanese dish. This does not please the Korean president, so he vows to market the dish to the world as the originator. Upon his return to Korea, he announces a national "Kimchi Contest" to reaffirm its position as a Korean...
Publisher
Flying Cloud Productions
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
How did a country that until 2010 had no organ donation system, become one of the world's organ transplant leaders? For years, China claimed that the organs came from executed prisoners, but the numbers didn't add up. Short wait times and a seemingly endless supply of donors, made China a popular destination for transplant surgeries that can take years of waiting in other countries. But the question no one was asking is where do these organs come...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 2012, Atsushi Funahashi presentedNuclear Nation, his film about the consequences of the March 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima Daiichi. 1400 people from nearby Futaba were evacuated to a school building in a Tokyo suburb. Funahashi documented people’s desperation with true empathy and showed the full extent of the destruction. This year, he presents the sequel.. We learn that the former mayor – previously a fervent advocate of nuclear energy...
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After the loss of both parents, 11 years old Oat faces an uncertain future when his older brother must submit to Thailand's annual military draft lottery. Unable to convince his brother to do whatever he can to change his fate, Oat takes matters into his own hands resulting in unexpected consequences.. Based on the stories from the bestselling book Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap, the film is set in the economic fringes of Bangkok and examines...
Publisher
All Channel Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
As a child, Remington mocked all the gay men in his town. But, now, a spell from a none-too-pleased drag queen has come to haunt him, turning this hunky teen into "snaps" of fabulousness overnight. Suddenly, Remington is becoming neater, nicer, and more sensitive. Is it for Hannah, the love of his life? But, then, why do his hips suddenly start to sway and his heart goes pitter-pat whenever he sets his eyes on his best buddy Jigs?. To find the answers,...
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
As seen on National Geographic's Short Film Showcase 2016, Director Russell O. Bush's Vultures of Tibet explores the recent commercialization of a sacred Tibetan funeral tradition known as Sky Burial. In Sky Burial, Tibetans ritually feed the bodies of their dead to wild Griffon Vultures as an offering to benefit other living beings. With the modernization of Western China and the expansion of tourism in Tibet, burial sites are now highlighted on...
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