3rd New York Asian Film Festival
June 18-27, 2004 at Anthology Film Archives
It's here! Subway Cinema (that's us!) is back with its annual cinematic extravaganza — America's leading showcase devoted to new feature films from Asia. Featuring the latest and greatest films from Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, China, and Thailand. How do we know? Because we've watched hundreds of movies and chosen the best 20. These flicks have been sweeping the awards ceremonies, raking in the box office loot and burning up the film festival circuit (our 20 films have won a cumulative 38 awards).
Our line-up includes Hero from Zhang Yimou (and starring Jet Li and Maggie Cheung), the scariest Japanese horror movie ever made, Juon, the latest movie from arthouse horror genius, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Doppelgänger, the screamingly great female samurai flick, Azumi, the hugely successful Infernal Affairs from Hong Kong. We’ll also feature a sidebar of the classic Zatoichi films from the 1960s in honor of Takeshi Kitano’s 2003 Zatoichi remake, and we’ll be holding the International premiere of Japan’s Umizaru, which gets its Japanese release on June 12. We believe that these movies deserve to be seen on the big screen with an audience.
So, watch the trailers, read the program book, buy your tickets and take a chance. There’s not a movie in this line-up that won’t entertain you till your socks fall off.
Films
ANTENNA (Japan, 2003)
AZUMI (Japan, 2003)
BAYTONG (Thailand, 2003)
DANCE WITH THE WIND (South Korea, 2004)
DOPPELGANGER (Japan, 2003)
DRIVE (Japan, 2002)
HERO (Mainland China, 2002)
INFERNAL AFFAIRS (Hong Kong, 2002)
JUON: THE GRUDGE (Japan, 2003)
JUON: THE GRUDGE 2 (Japan, 2003)
LEGEND OF THE EVIL LAKE (South Korea, 2003)
LIKE ASURA (Japan, 2003)
MACABRE CASE OF PROM PI RAM (Thailand, 2003)
MARRONNIER (Japan, 2004)
PLEASE TEACH ME ENGLISH (South Korea, 2003)
THE ROAD TAKEN (South Korea, 2003)
RUNNING ON KARMA (Hong Kong, 2003)
UMIZARU (Japan, 2004)
VIBRATOR (Japan, 2003)
WHEN THE LAST SWORD IS DRAWN (Japan, 2003)
ZATOICHI 3: NEW TALE OF ZATOICHI (Japan, 1963)
ZATOICHI 4: THE FUGITIVE (Japan, 1963)
ZATOICHI 5: ON THE ROAD (Japan, 1963)
Guests
Hideyuki Kobayashi (MARRONNIER)
Eiichiro Hasumi (UMIZARU)
Hirotsugi Usui (UMIZARU)
