Best Asian Movies Of 2001

Durante el traslado de su familia a los suburbios, una niña de 10 años se adentra en un mundo gobernado por dioses, brujas y espíritus, y donde los humanos se convierten en bestias.

A aldeanos de una provincia de India le será eliminado el impuesto territorial si derrotan a soldados británicos en juego de cricket.

In a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.

A marriage of convenience between a petty gangster and an illegal immigrant he has never met has unforeseen consequences for them both.

Offering a rare glimpse into one side of the Middle East conflict, Frontiers of Dreams and Fears explores the lives of a group of Palestinian children growing up in refugee camps. The film focuses on two teenage girls, Mona and Manar. Although they live in refugee camps miles apart, the girls manage to communicate and become friends despite the overwhelming barriers that separate them. The film reveals their lives, dreams, and growing relationship, at first through email, culminating in their dramatic meeting at the fence that separates them at the Lebanese/Israeli border.

Un entrevistador para televisión y su cámara conocen a una actriz retirada y recorren sus recuerdos y su carrera.

Un padre estresado, una futura novia con un secreto, una planificadora de eventos enamorada y parientes de todo el mundo crean mucho alboroto en los preparativos de un matrimonio concertado en la India.

Members of a traveling cover band going nowhere deal with the bitterness of growing up.

A valuable visual commentary on modern society, 'Under The Skin Of The City' follows one Iranian family in their eternal struggle to stay afloat financially and emotionally. Touba works hard at a textile factory to make ends meet during the day, returning in the evening to face the trials and tribulations of her family: her pregnant daughter who frequently suffers at the hands of her abusive husband, a son embroiled in radical politics, and another son who hopes to escape to Japan. In their fight for self-determination and independence, Touba and her family come to represent the plight of the working class in modern day Tehran.

Un joven ve a una linda mujer borracha parada demasiado cerca de las vías en una estación de metro en Seúl y la detiene. Ella termina metiéndolo en problemas repetidamente después de eso, comenzando en el tren.

Tras casarse con una mujer pobre, el rico Rahul es repudiado por su padre y se traslada a Londres para construir una nueva vida. Años más tarde, Rohan, su hermano pequeño, se embarca en una misión para traer a Rahul de vuelta.

While the post-revolution frenzy is at its peak in Iran, a woman attempts to help her secretive husband out of jail by settling his debts for him on her own.

Sugihara, nacido en Japón pero de padres norcoreanos, se enamora de una chica japonesa tras cambiar de una escuela norcoreana a una japonesa. Su padre, boxeador, le enseña a boxear, habilidades que utiliza mucho.

A watch salesman meets a young woman soon leaving for Paris and becomes infatuated, so he begins to change all the clocks in Taipei to Paris time.

Un adolescente filipino es asesinado en Nueva Jersey, desencadenando una investigación sobre el impacto devastador de la droga Shabu en los jóvenes.

Un joven discípulo de Shaolin se reúne con sus desanimados hermanos para formar un equipo de fútbol y utilizar sus habilidades de artes marciales a su favor.

A sound engineer falls in love with a radio show host after they work together on a project capturing natural sounds.

Sunil is an NRI married to an American girl. His father lives in Kolkata with an old servant Shambhu. When Sunil returns home after fifteen years he sees the house is locked and his father has disappeared. Guilt-ridden Sunil starts looking for him. He comes to know that his father might be in an old age home. He reaches there only to find that he had died a few months earlier. Sunil meets Satya Babu, his father's fellow inmate, who tells him all about his father's last days. Sunil tells the old man that he wants to adopt him as his father and requests him to come to US with him.

La terriblemente hermosa Vicky recuerda sus romances con Hao Hao y Jack en los clubes iluminados con neón de Taipei.

The Moonhunter tells a true story of two young Thai revolutionaries. Seksan Prasertkul, a fearless student leader, who, in October 1973, commanded the biggest mass demonstration in modern Thai history. The event led to a popular uprising that toppled the military dictatorship and restored democracy. His life and that of his girlfriend, Chiranan Pitpreecha-a campus queen- took a drastic turn when they were caught in the wave of political violence, stirred up by remnants of the old ruling elite who still bid for the return of dictatorial rule. After the assassinations of many fellow activists, the two decided to join the illegal armed movement, led by the Communist Party of Thailand, fighting guerilla-style in the forests of Thailand. Seksan's dreams of redressing his country's grievances, however, were quickly shattered, for he found that his strain of idealism was not really shared by the party's old Guard.

Romances end in blood and the frail hopes of individuals are torn apart in a vile karmic continuity of colonialism, civil war and occupation. After surviving Japanese colonization, Korea became the first war zone of the Cold War. The legacy of war remains today in this divided country.

En un instituto japonés, una clase de adolescentes geeks se une al nuevo profesor de natación sincronizada y acepta el desafío de participar en la competición, a pesar de las burlas de los «verdaderos deportistas».

Although their characters and temperaments couldn't be less alike, 19-year olds Wei and Jie are best friends. They're also neighbours, living with widower fathers and problem siblings in the suburbs of Taipei. When Wei is promoted from the rank of nightclub parking valet to the rank of debt-collector in Brother Gu's gang, he persuades his boss to hire Jie to work alongside him. Things begin to go wrong when they are given a handgun to reward their success in the new job. Always excitable and volatile, Jie becomes reckless and dangerous when he has the gun in his hand. When they try to collect a debt from the boss of a rival gang, a fight erupts and Jie shoots the gang-boss. The boys find themselves on the run. But fate and their youthful dreams still have tricks to play...

The film highlights the changing lives and ways of the Limbu people, an ethnic minority residing in rural eastern Nepal. It is a story of a young Limbu girl's struggle with cultural traditions, the impact of local medical practices on her life, and the effect of her actions on her community. The struggles of Numa, the young girl, represent the lives of many other young Nepali women, torn between fulfilling her desires and cultural traditions.

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