Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
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…
Inugami (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… (1999)- 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 Brigade (1999)- 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,…
Kikujiro (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 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…
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