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Three Men Who Made A Movie Named Guanyin Also Make Movies Also Made A Movie

In Hainan, there is a Guanyin Temple. The Guanyin in the temple decided to make a movie based on her personal experience. Two friends and I planned to make a documentary Guanyin Also Make Movies built from this event. Gradually, the act of us shooting the documentary, starting to echo with the act of Guanyin making the movie. To every single person, the image has its own unique significance. Therefore, we also turned the camera to ourselves, deriving Three Men Who Made a Movie Named Guanyin Also Make Movies Also Made a Movie from Guanyin Also Make Movies.

Three Men Who Made A Movie Named Guanyin Also Make Movies Also Made A Movie

NR 2019
Halsha Me-ha ue / Tokyo Kurds

It is difficult to get refugee status in Japan. In 2016, the number of recognized as refugees were 28 out of 10,901. Their situation is hopeless. For the past 20 years, Turkish Kurds have been fleeing from prejudice and persecution and coming to the Tokyo area, where they now number about 1,500. Among them is 18-year-old Ozan, who first came to Tokyo as a child. Living in Japan with his family as an ‘illegally alien’ rather than an officially recognized refugee, Ozan has been forced to work illegally, and today he doses demolition work on buildings and homes. This film portrays one summer in Ozan’ s life as he begins work that hopes will fulfill his secret dreams while struggling with a sense of alienation from Japanese society.

Halsha Me-ha ue / Tokyo Kurds

NR 2019
Neighbor's Moans: Caught between a Married Woman and an Office Lady

The Showa era was coming to an end, and the Heisei era was about to begin. Chikage (Tomoda Ayaka) and Ryuhei, newlyweds living in an apartment, get into a trivial argument over food, but at night they make up by having sex and think about the new era. In contrast to the two of them, Shota, a part-time worker living in the next room, is spending his days in agony. Shota, who has no luck with women, is addicted to telephone clubs, and is called "Telephone Club Jizo" by Satsuki (Natsume Airi), an office lady living in the same apartment, and Aya (Usui Saryu), a colleague, who often sees him in front of the station where they meet.

Neighbor's Moans: Caught between a Married Woman and an Office Lady

NR 2019
South Lake Park to Hongqi Street

From South Lake Park to Hongqi Street is a dual-channel essay film based on the inquiry “What is Manchukuo Film Association”, which threads together the spaces, characters and stories related to the Manchukuo Film Association, connected by the artist’s voiceover narration. These stories comprise of a myriad of protagonists, including the Manchukuo actress-singer Li Xianglan (Yoshiko Yamaguchi), personnel working in the Manchukuo film association and Changchun Film Group Corporation, scholars of Sino-Japanese films etc. Through these narratives, the artist attempts to insert answers into the blanks that History indifferently or haphazardly left out.

South Lake Park to Hongqi Street

NR 2019
Legend of Fox Demon Nie Xiaoqian

Nie Xiao Qian, a lonely girl controlled by a monster, accidentally ran into Ning Cai Chen, a scholar who went to Beijing to sit for the imperial exam. Xiao Qian was preparing for a tribute for the demon tree grandmother Lao Lao. After being in good-natured nature, Xiao Qian repeatedly approached Ning Cai Chen and was moved by his innocence. After learning about Xiao Qian's situation, Ning Cai Chen asked Yan Chi Xia to retrieve Xiao Qian's soul, but was blocked by the old Black Mountain demon, and went through a period of tortuous and difficult experience from demon to human..

Legend of Fox Demon Nie Xiaoqian

NR 2019
Nostalgia

In March and April of 2019, Zeng Dekuang and I spent more than 20 days traveling. Starting from the Wanzhou Sanhe Prison in Chongqing where his close friend Qin Yong was serving his sentence, we went to several places where he lived for a long time and lived in his childhood. The mountain villages in Wugang, Hunan, the city of Ningxiang where he lived in his youth, the county town of Zhongxian County in Chongqing, where he has been living for many years after graduation, and Daling Mountain in the Golden Town of Zhongxian County, and the ancient city of Phoenix where his wife and daughter now live. He Lu, an old friend, also went around for ten days, and De Kuang called it a homecoming trip.

Nostalgia

NR 2019
Mlabri in the Woods

The Mlabri is one of the smallest ethnic minorities on the planet who have lived in the mountainous forests of northern Thailand and western Laos. Since being "rediscovered" on the Thai side in the early 1980s, they have gradually come to live a settled life in a few villages in Nan and Phrae provinces in Thailand. However, even though they have been integrated into modern society, they do not have a means of livelihood. They receive public assistance, make knitting crafts, or are hired by the neighboring Hmong as day laborers to help with the cultivation. Ito Yuma, a young Japanese linguist has been collecting and studying the Mlabri language, which is ind danger of disappear.

Mlabri in the Woods

NR 2019