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InugamiInugami (1999)
Dir. Masato Harada
Feat. Yuki Amami, Atsuro Watabe, Eugene Harada
Quietly impressive suspenser set in a remote mountain village in Japan, where a young local woman and a visiting school teacher become aware of the…
It All Starts Today…It All Starts Today… (1999) Recommended
Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Feat. Philippe Torreton, Maria Pitarresi, Nadia Kaci
Determinedly humanist account of the difficulties facing a kindergarten teacher in impoverished northern France, based on the experiences of the…
Jin-Roh: The Wolf BrigadeJin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999) Recommended
Dir. Hiroyuki Okikura
Feat. Michael Dobson, Mike Kopsa
Visually rich and tasteful ‘anime’ set in a slightly futurised post–WW2 Tokyo, where an anti–terrorist commando, suspended from duty,…
KikujiroKikujiro (Kikujiro no Natsu) (1999)
Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Feat. Takeshi Kitano
An uncharacteristically easy–going, episodic road movie from one–man movie machine, Beat Takeshi, whose impassive screen persona snugly…
King of ComedyKing of Comedy (Choi kek ji wong) (1999)
Dir. Stephen Chow (Chiao)
Feat. Stephen Chow (Chiao), Karen Mok
Hong Kong’s king–of–parody Stephen Chow ironically casts himself as a luckless movie extra who fumbles his way to leading man status…
La Veuve de Saint-PierreLa Veuve de Saint-Pierre (Widow Of Saint-Pierre) (1999)
Dir. Patrice Leconte
Feat. Emir Kusturica, Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil
In 1850, on a tiny island near Canada, an oafish Emir Kusturica is sentenced to die by guillotine. While waiting for an executioner to arrive from…
LiesLies (Gojitmal) (1999)
Dir. Jang Sun-Woo
Feat. Kim Tae Yeon, Lee Sang Hyun
Highly controversial in its native Korea (the source novel was banned) this tale of S&M sex–addiction between a schoolgirl and an older…
MifuneMifune (1999)
Dir. Soren Kragh-Jacobson
Feat. Iben Hjejle, Anders W Berthelsen, Jesper Asholt
The third Dogma 95 film is in many ways as traditional a European romantic comedy as you could come across, a breezy and smart take on a yuppie…
MolochMoloch (1999)
Dir. Alexandr Sokurov
Feat. Yelena Rufanova, Leonid Mozgovoy
Typically Sokurov, the dir. of RUSSIAN ARK turns his filtered lens on a day in the life of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, concerned more with the…
My Neighbours the YamadasMy Neighbours the Yamadas (Houhokekyo tonari no Yamada-kun) (1999)
Dir. Isao Takahata
With an original eye and ear for the burdensome triviality and difficulties of everyday life, this Japanese animation concerns a set of suburbanite…

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