Spotlight on Japan
At the end of the Edo period in Kyoto, a samurai prepares to fight a ronin when a flash of lightning hits him. Waking up, he learns he’s been transported…
Kau Ka Hōkū Award Nominee, Southeast Asian Showcase
Set in the early 2000s, in an urban town near Hanoi, DON’T CRY, BUTTERFLY revolves around Tam, a middle-aged housewife, who discovers that her husband is having an affair. Devastated…
Panorama
This captivating animated feature with CG rendered animals and beautiful paint-like natural backgrounds tells the story of a great flood that overwhelms a mystical landscape that a clever and resilient…
Spotlight on Japan
This animated feature is based on a manga about a strong-willed girl who finds herself spending the summer alone in a rural village, where she meets a cheeky, rude-but-loveable man-sized…
Closing Night Film, Spotlight on Japan
During the late Edo period, legendary author Bakin spent an epic 28 years writing his masterpiece Nanso Hatomi Hakkenden one of Japan’s greatest works. HAKKENDEN ambitiously follows the master Bakin…
Spotlight on Japan
Once upon a time, over a thousand years ago during the Heian period, there was a special bureau of magicians whose school trained students to become masters who would then…