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Silk Screen 2000
A collection of outstanding films from Asia

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Showing in Sydney at Dendy Opera Quays, Verona and Roseville.

Crouching tiger, hidden dragon

The story of two women, both capable fighters, whose fates intertwine during the ching dynasty. One of them tries passionately to break free from the constraint society has placed upon her, even if it means giving up her aristocratic privileges for a life of crime and passion. The other, in her lifelong pursuit of justice and honor, only too late discovers the consequences of unfulfilled love. Their two destinies will lead them to a violent and astonishing showdown, in which each will make a surprising, climatic choice.

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26 December 2000

Kikujiro (Kikujiro no natsu)

Tough guy Kikujiro (Beat Takeshi) is an unlikely candidate to take a sensitive 8-year-old boy Masao (Yusuke Sekiguchi) on a quest to find the mother he's never met (Yuko Ooya). But they're off on a trek through contemporary Japan, where they encounter an odd assortment of offbeat characters. The wandering duo's adventure take them on a madcap tour of the Japanese countryside - from the races to an abandoned high-class hotel, and even to a gangster-infested carnival. Kikujiro is about children's games, and how they make us see exactly what went wrong in our own lives.

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16 November 2000

The emperor and the assassin (Jing ke ci qin Wang)

Set in the 3rd century BCE., The emperor and the assassin tells the story of Ying Zheng (Xuejian Li), a power-hungry heir to the throne of the kingdom of Qin, whose only goal is to conquer the other six kingdoms existing in China and merge them into his own, and under his rule.

In preparation for the second of his six assaults, Ying gains the help of his concubine Zhao (Gong Li), who travels to the kingdom of Han as a spy, in order to make the King believe that she has fallen out of favour with Ying. Once in Han, and together, with the King, Zhao will find an assassin, who will be sent to kill Ying, but Ying will be prepared for the assassin's onslaught, and in defending himself, will be considered unstoppable.

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5 October 2000

The road home (Wo de fu qin mu qin)

City businessman Luo Yusheng (Honglei Sun) returns to his home village in north China for the funeral of his father, the village teacher. He finds his elderly mother (Yuelin Zhao) insisting that all traditional curial customs be observed, despite the fact that times have changed so much.

Observing his mother's intransigence, ysheng thinks back over the stories he heard as a boy about his parent's courtship. His father, Luo Changyu (Hao Zheng), came to the village as the new teacher and soon fell in love with Zhao Di (Ziyi Zhang), considered the prettiest of local girls. But their developing romance was curtailed when Changyu was ordered back to the city for obscure political mistakes, and the would-be lovers were kept apart for more than two years.

When finally reunited, they married and never separated again.

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6 July 2000

Shower

The humourous story of a father and his two sons. Abandoned by his eldest son, who left in search of fortune, the father remains in Beijing raising his retarded son and clinging to his chosen profession as the master of a bath-house. Mistakenly believing that his father has passed away, the eldest son returns to Beijing to discover the magic of the bath-house and its importance to the surrounding community.

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