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CINEASIA returns in 2007 with the best new Asian cinema - 3 one and only opportunities to see outstanding premiere screenings in all their 35mm glory and 3 other not to be missed programs.

Tix $11 / $9 (conc) (except Kung Fu Crunch) Book on 8410 0979 or at the door.

SPIRITED AWAY

7:30pm WED 28 MARCH

Dir: Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, with subtitles, 2001, 35mm, 125 mins (PG)

If you missed this wondrously strange masterpiece, hand-drawn with heart and soul - here is your chance.
Chihiro, a 10-year-old girl, wanders into an abandoned theme park. There, like Alice in Wonderland, she passes into another world ruled over by the witch Yubaba, a place where gods and monsters go on holiday. Chihiro, forced to work at the bath house to earn her keep, makes some strange new friends. But can she rescue her parents and return to her own world?

Best Animated Feature Film; 75th Annual Academy Awards
Best Film; 2001 Japanese Academy Awards
Golden Bear (tied); 2002 Berlin International Film Festival
Best Animated Feature; 2002 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
More than 16 other international award

 

Already screened

DUMPLINGS

7:30pm WED 28 FEB

Dir: Fruit Chan, Hong Kong with subtitles, 2004, 35mm, 91 min (MA15+)

Demented story about the search for eternal youth - shocking, hilarious, completely original. Dumplings explores ageing, abortion, addiction, vanity and class in a confronting yet completely convincing tale. Chris Doyles cinematography is, as usual, brilliant and gives a stylistic flavour to the whole package. A jet-black gem! to the package.

"A gruesomely macabre tale, which is also a satire of sexual politics - gripping, weirdly elegant, replete with eroticised revulsion." Peter Bradshaw The Guardian

KUNG FU CRUNCH!

7:30pm WED 14 MARCH
Tix $20/$17

Jaimie Leonarder (SBS Movie Show) and Aspasia take you on a jouney into the most insane martial arts madness from around the globe.

Featuring martial arts demos and MR BREAKO.

Witness the Amazing Bruce Li, Bruce Lee, Summo Hung, The Magnificent Candy Kane, Jim Kelly the Black Samurai, Angela Mao, Sonny Chiba & Chuck Norris. They're bad, they're tough, they need acting lessons.

Featuring trailers and excerpts from some of the cheesiest Fu films of all time! Films such as the unforgetable Deep Trust, ThR Arabic Ninja, Lady Whirl Wind, Dynamo, Kill And Kill Again & Slaughter In San Fansicso to name a few.

World premiere Adelaide Fringe event. Plus Great Crumpler Bag giveaways!

And there's MORE - full program

SEVEN SWORDS (Chat Gim)

7:30pm WED 31 JAN Adelaide Premiere

Dir: Tsui Hark, South Korea, Hong Kong, China, with subtitles, 2005, 35mm, 153 mins, (MA 15+) Premiere

Seven warriors protect their village from a cruel government enforcer in 17th century China. With action choreography by Donnie Yen and the legendary Lau Kar-Leung and director Hark returning to his Once Upon a Time in China roots this is the real deal in the Wuxia style of Chinese film making.

Winner of Golden Horse Best Action Choreography Award 2005,
Winner of Hong Kong Film Critics Film of Merit Award,
Nominated for 11 Hong Kong Film Awards 2006 including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Action Choreography.

A BATTLE OF WITS (Muk gong)

7:30pm WED 7 FEBRUARY Adelaide Premiere

Dir: Jacob Cheung Chi Leung, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, with subtitles, 2006, 35mm, 133 mins (M)

From the Warring States period comes this epic with Andy Lau defending a tiny helpless kingdom from a much larger, much more evil kingdom. Based on a Japanese manga, the story centres on the defensive strategy and peaceful philosophy of the hero.

A lavishly-produced historical drama from China, A battle of Wits tells the complex story of a lone warrior whose mission is to save a besieged walled city from the savage attack of a 25,000 strong army.
Late in the 3rd Century, when China comprised seven rival kingdoms, Ge Li - an unremarkable savior in rags - stands alone in an endangered city waiting to fulfill his destiny.
It is an impossible battle. But here is a lone man willing to climb every mountain Rnd cross every river just to get the city of Liang with only one aim: to deliver Liang from the overwhelming threat of the kingdom of Zhao in her battle against the kingdom of Yan.
Ge Li is the last Mohist in the Warring States Period of China. Facing him in the field are thousands of swift chariots and many thousands more mail-clad soldiers. His battle will be the loneliest battle in the history of war. No battle has ever been this unmatched in strength.
Would this one man alone be able to change the destiny of Liang? On the surface, this is a battle for which bloodshed would be inevitable. But in reality it is also a battle of wits. A struggle between power and desire; between a ruler and the ruled. A message of anti-war through war itself.

"A sincere historical mega production with values that resonate with today's viewers." John Li, movieXclusive

MEN SUDDENLY IN BLACK 2

7:30pm WED 14 FEB Adelaide Premiere

Dir: Zhong Qing, Hong Kong, with subtitles, 2006, 35mm, 90 mins (M)

The tables have been turned in this sequel to the 2003 comedy hit. The battle of the sexes has never been fought so hard. The for wives obtain a DVD about how to fool around behind their husbands backs. The women head for Macau to break the bond of morality, their jealous men follow them and now it's war!