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Director:Yoshifumi
Hosoya
Cast:
Adam Vignola, Matthew Black, Sayuri Higuchi Emerson
Takihiro Fujita
Set in New York City, this appealingly
madcap Japanese comedy turns the stereotype of the hard-working
Japanese in America on its head. Featuring amusing sight
gags, winning lead performances and over-the-top caricatures,
Sleepy heads tells the tale of young illegal Japanese
immigrants happy to be free from Japan's intense work
ethic and traditional hierarchies.
Japanese
heartthrob Eugene Nomura plays Hiro, a recently arrived
singer-musician whose innocent amiability and enthusiasm
make up for his utter lack of talent. His fellow Japanese
pals and roommates include a spaced-out Rastafarian
drug dealer and a wooden-sword wielding bouncer. One
day, when one of them overdoses, the two remaining friends
bag the body and lug it through New York in an effort
to fulfill the dead pal's request to be tossed, like
Steve McQueen, off the Brooklyn Bridge. What follows
is one wild and bizarre night that they will remember
forever!
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Comedy
R / 1997 / 87 minutes / 35mm
Language: English / Japanese
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Director:
Rea Tajiri
Cast: Takayo
Fischer, Suzy Nakamura, James Sie
A rebellious sixteen year old Japanese American girl named
Irene searches for self-identity within the turmoil of
1970s America. Haunted by the recent death of her baby
sister, Irene discovers the reality of her family's history
as Japanese Americans interned during World War II.
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Drama
NR / 1997 / 90 minutes / 35mm
Language: English
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THE
TERRORIST |
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Director:
Santosh Sivan
Cast: Ayesha
Dharker, K. Krishna, Sonu Sisupal
Malli is a 19 year old girl, who joined a terrorist
organization at a very young age after her brother was
killed in the cause. Now in her young adulthood, she
volunteers for a suicide assassination mission to kill
a VIP in the service of her cause. With intricate preparations
and seemingly firm resolve, she makes her way to the
target area where the plot will be executed. However,
events occur that make her question her determination
to complete her mission and the very nature of the sacrifice
that she is called upon to make.
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Drama
NR / 1999 / 95 minutes / 35 mm
Language: Tamil
Subtitles: English
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TRAILER
THE MOVIE |
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Director:
Ian McCrudden
Cast: Ian
McCrudden, Will Pope
Called "one of the more off-beat narratives to come
along in a while..." (Filmmaker Magazine) Trailer
- The Movie is the trippy journey of Val and Dip, two
jack-ass-movie-buff-extraordinaires. who sneak into the
movies one night and go mad for two of the actresses in
one of the previews. When they are kicked out of the movie
theater for indecenent behavior, they whimsically decide
to make one up instead. Like a faustian bargain made good,
they are magically transported to a celluloied universe
of there own imagining: a comic strip world of big blue
skies, pink convertables, kooky clothes, and host of wacky
characters that make John Waters' seem tame. It is here
in their movie fantasy that Val and Dip meet the girls
from the preview, the girls of their dreams...With the
audience in tow, the four take off on a ride of indulgence
and self-discovery in feverish pursuit of the "miracle"
of film.
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Comedy
NR / 1999 / 85 minutes / 16 mm
Language: English
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YELLOW |
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Director:
Chris
Chan Lee
Cast: John
Cho, Burt Bulos, David Zaugh, Amy Hill
Soon-Tek Oh, Emily Kuroda
Eight
teenagers in Los Angeles spend their last night together
before graduation. On that evening their best friend,
Sin Lee, loses his father's money while tending to the
family business. Their relationship already strained,
Sin is unable to confront his father about the loss. His
friends rally together, and what follows is an adventurous
and dizzying scavenger hunt. After a succession of ill-planned
attempts to scrape up some money, the kids find themselves
penniless, physically
bruised, publicly humiliated, and generally much worse
off than when they started. At the height of desperation,
Sin crosses a line that will change his life forever.
1999 GOLDEN RING AWARD
Best Asian American Independent Film
1997 GOLD CARP 1st PLACE AUDIENCE
AWARD
6th Annual Seattle Asian American Film Festival
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Comedy Drama
NR / 1998 / 90 minutes / 35 mm
Language: English
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