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China Program

China Program

Commemorating the Olympic Ceremonies in Beijing this year, SSFF & ASIA 2008 will introduce upcoming Chinese filmmakers (out of competition) and rare short films by Wong Kar Wai and Fruit Chan as Maestro Short Shorts.

Screening Schedule
June 07th   Laforet Museum Harajuku    17:40 - 19:30
June 09th   Laforet Museum Harajuku    15:30 - 17:20
June 14th   Laforet Museum Harajuku    11:15 - 13:05
There's Only One Sun
There's Only One Sun
Kar Wai Wong / 9:35 / Drama / Hong Kong/China / 2007
A female robot operative chases a man named "The Light". There's only one sun, but it travels the world every day. This sun is all mine and I won't give it away!
- Marina Tsvetaeva   French actress, Amelie Daure is starring
Clown
Clown
Qin Panpan / 18:00 / Drama / China / XXXX
Clown is always clown, at stage and off stage. He confuses life with stage due to restrict of his fate.
Sound of Broken Fingers
Sound of Broken Fingers
Gao Xiaosong / 7:00 / Drama / China / XXXX / mature
The two young ladies grow up together and learned piano together. But piano obsession leads them into a love-and-hatred complex to each other. Red Lady with broken fingers envies and hates White Lady to a crazy degree...
The Perturbance of Mind
The Perturbance of Mind
Zhang Gong / 10:00 / Animation / China / 2006
Simple and quiet life is depicted with unique style of animation.
A+B=C
A+B=C
Fruit Chan / 14:00 / Drama / Hong Kong / 2006 / mature
There is a young girl who is willing to bear a child for C. This greatly deepens the conflict. In order to keep her marriage and love, wife A takes chance and wants to get pregnant by sperm from B(starring by Guo Xiaodong), a man who looks like her husband C. B is a sperm donator. But after A meets B, B decides to donate his sperm only by making love with her. They sign an agreement and begin the donation process. Yet after the crazy love-making, an unbearable fact is waiting for all of them.
Starting from the left : Hu Jun, Li Xiaoran, Guo Xiaodong
Left-Handed
Left-Handed
Baoqi Ye / 10:00 / Drama / China/Canada / 2002
The round hole. The square peg. If neither bends, which will break? China. 1979. Conformity is a matter of survival. The teacher of a left-handed boy enlists the boy's father to help correct his "problem". At home and at school, the boy struggles to understand his place in the world, guided only by the sage advice of an ambidextrous street-corner barber.
Nostagia
Nostagia
Xu Liang / 13:00 / Drama / China / XXXX
That is my hometown. Many people live there. And many people die there. Wheat grows on dung and earth, just like grass.
Please note that guests and program contents are subject to change without notice and tickets are not refundable.