3/25 (Sat) / Japan America Theatre / 1:00 pm – 3:35 pm

(India, 2005, 142 mins.)
Director/Sreenwriter: Apoorva Lakhia
Producer: Jaspreet Singh Walia, Bunty Walia

Ong Bak + Bollywood. India's all-time biggest movie star, Amitabh Bachchan (a/k/a Big B), returns to the big screen in this new action thriller. Based on the Hollywood flick Man On Fire, a burnt-out Army Colonel, Suryaveer Singh, is assigned the task of protecting a child in Bangkok by Arjun Rampal. The kidnappers strike and manage to abduct the little girl. He vows to avenge her and starts hunting down the kidnappers. With the stunt team from Ong Bak.

3/25 (Sat) / Japan America Theatre / Shown with Antarcitc Journal

(Singapore, 2004, 13 mins.)
Director/ Screenwriter/Producer: Royston Tan Royston

Tan's debut feature 15 was decimated by the Singapore censors with 27 cuts. So he fought back with this gleefully camp protest musical.

3/25 (Sat) / Japan America Theatre / 4:00 pm – 6:09 pm

(South Korea, 2004, 114 mins.)
Director: Yim Phil-sung
Screenwriter: Chang Kang-hee
Producer: Yim Hee-chul

Pole of Inaccessibility - the farthest place from the coast of Antarctic continent. Days into a bone-chilling expedition, strange phenomena occur and team members start to disappear one by one, while Captain Choi shows greater tenacity to reaching the unreachable point. A film for fans of R-point.

3/25 (Sat) / Japan America Theatre / Shown with Clean

(Taiwan, 2004, 19 mins.)
Director/Screenwriter: Robin Lee
Producer: Huang Chih Ming

A girl who loves to watch washing machines spin in the middle of the night is delighted to discover a fantastical wash machine that appears in the laundromat. The clothes placed inside it don’t always come out clean; they become large, small, old or new, yielding or standing – against one’s wishes. Best Short Film at the Golden Horse Film Awards (Taipei).

3/25 (Sat) / Japan America Theatre / 6:40 pm – 8:50 pm

(France, 2004, 111 mins.)

Director: Olivier Assayas
Screenwriter: Olivier Assayas, Malachy Martin, Sarah Perry
Producer: Edouard Weil, Niv Fichman, Xavier Marchand

Widowed rock-star Emily has just been released from a six-month prison stint stemming from her heroin addiction. So begins her quest to reclaim her young son, placed in the custody of her protective in-laws. Maggie Cheung imbues Emily’s struggle to stay clean with a potent combination of rawness, compassion and truth.

3/25 (Sat) / Japan America Theatre / 9:20 pm – 11:00 pm

(South Korea, 2005, 97 mins.)
Director: Kim Dong-Bin
Screenwriter: Lee Yong-jong
Producer: Kim Nam-hie, Kim Yong-guk

Life is a train heading to the last station called Death. On July 16, 1988, a train accident carries 100 souls to the end of the line. Sixteen years later, train attendant Mi-sun is on board for her first time at work. The train leaves its platform as scheduled and rapidly gains full speed. All of sudden, it stops for ten minutes and restarts. After that, everything Mi-sun sees is from the 1980’s and the newspaper is dated July 16, 1988. What happened during the ten minutes when the train stopped and where is it going?