Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Dead or Alive (Hanzaisha) (1999)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Sho Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi, Ren Osugi - A jaw–dropping, wickedly amoral revenge thriller from the dir. of AUDITION, who blows the dust (and the roof) off gangster movie cliches and…
East / West (Est / Ouest) (1999)- Dir. Regis Wargnier
Feat. Sandrine Bonnaire, Oleg Menshikov, Sergei Bodrov Jr… - A 'woman's picture' in the proudest sense of the term, this lush historical melodrama from the dir. of INDOCHINE again finds a French woman in a…
Emperor and the Assassin, The (Jing Ke Ci Qin Wang) (1999)- Dir. Chen Kaige
Feat. Gong Li, Zhang Fenyi - Vast, gilded historical spectacle set in the 3rd Century BC, centred on China's legendary first Qin emperor's struggle to consolidate a unified…
Girl on the Bridge, The (1999)- Dir. Patrice Leconte
Feat. Daniel Auteuil, Vanessa Paradis - This glossy slice of modern 'poetic realism' has an attractive visual component but its arch–Romanticism won't be everyone's glass of Chablis.…
Gloomy Sunday (Ein Lied Von Liebe Und Tod) (1999)
- Dir. Rolf Schubel
Feat. Joachim Krol, Erika Marozsan, Ben Becker… - Captivating drama which pivots around the apocryphal origins of the classic melancholy song 'Gloomy Sunday' in pre–WW2 Budapest. An amiably…
Gohatto (Taboo) (1999)- Dir. Nagisa Oshima
Feat. Takeshi Kitano - Visually stunning evocation of the tensions in a samurai–training school in 1860s Japan, with Kitano playing a captain who agonises over his…
Harmonium in my Memory, The (1999)- Dir. Young-jae Lee
Feat. Do-yeon Chun, Min-hie Kim, Byung-hun Lee - Sweet, soft–spoken melodrama of jittery first love, recalling the innocent love triangle that forms between a handsome, fresh–faced…
Hero (A Man Called Hero) (1999)- Dir. Wai Keung Lau
Feat. Ekin Cheng, Shu Qi, Kristy Yang - A typically offbeat HK amalgam of historical saga, martial arts action and CGI special effects. Set in the first half of the 20th century, this…
Human Resources (1999)- Dir. Laurent Cantet
Feat. Jalil Lespert - Astute French drama from director Laurent Cantet (THE CLASS) set in a white collar human resources department in Normandy, about the conflicts that…
Hypnosis (Saimin) (1999)- Dir. Masayuki Ochiai
Feat. Hiroshi Inagaki, Miho Kanno - A mysterious force is causing a spate of bizarre suicides, creatively and gruesomely staged for our blackly comic pleasure, in this…
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