Opening This Week:
November 28 - December 4, 2009 (MonkeyPeaches Exclusive)
December 4, 2009
Local Films
Other Films
China (mainland)
Hong Kong
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Jump / Tiao Chu Qu (Mandarin) / Jump Out (literal)
(Hong Kong / China)
(December 3, 2009)
A country girl with drams of becoming a big time hip-hop martial arts star goes to Shanghai and gets a job as a janitor at a local dance school...
Based on a story came up by Stephen Chow, who is also one of the producers.
Directed by: Stephen FUNG,
Written by: Stephen CHOW, TSANG Kan-Cheung,
Starring: ZHANG Yuqi, Leon Jay WILLIAMS, Daniel WU, PANG King-Chi, YUEN Cheung-Yan, YAO Wenxue, FUNG Min-Hun, LEE Sheung-Ching, Prudence KAO, ZHANG Jiancui, Lisa LI, LEI Minmin,
Produced by: Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia (Hong Kong), J.A. Media Ltd. (Beijing), Star Overseas (Hong Kong).
Dec. 1
Mulan
China
Evangelion: 2.0
You Can (Not) Advance
Japan
Synecdoche, New York
USA
Taiwan
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Miss Kicki / Ni Hong Xin (Mandarin) / Neon Hear (literal)
(Sweden / Taiwan)
(December 4,
2009)
Viktor visits Taiwan with his mother Kicki. He secretly hopes to meet the father he has never seen, but his mother's heart is completely elsewhere. Conflicts arise between them, and as Viktor gets closer with his Taiwanese friend Didi, the gap between mother and son widens...
Third film by Taiwan-born director and film professor Håkon LIU, now living in Sweden.
Directed by: Håkon LIU,
Written by: Alex HARIDI,
Starring: Pernilla AUGUST, Ludwig PALMELL, HUANG Ho, Britta
ANDERSSON, Ken, Eric TSANG, Gwen YAO,
Produced by: Migma Film AB (Stockholm), Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI)
(Stockholm), Sveriges Television (SVT) (Stockholm),
Film i Väst (Stockholm), Ocean Deep Films (Taipei), Migma West HB
(Stockholm?).
Spain
DeUsynlige / Troubled Water
Norway /
Sweden /
Germany
I Come with the Rain /
Je Viens Avec la Pluie
France
Pride
Japan
Rahtree Reborn
Thailand
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
USA
Transsiberian
UK /
Germany /
Spain /
Lithuania
Dec. 4
Villa Amalia
France /
Switzerland
SEAL Team VI
USA
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The Wingless Swallow & Fururi
/ Meng Xiang Er Bu Qü: Bu Si Yi Tian Shi, Bu Neng Fei De Niao (Mandarin) / The Dream Dilogy: The Mysterious Angel, The Bird Can't Fly (literal)
(Japan / Taiwan)
(November 27,
2009)
Fururi: In Japan, a 28 year old girl, who has a dream of becoming a flight attendant, repeats her daily routine from home to work and from work to home. One day, the dead cactus ball she threw away, appears on her front step, with a little white flower. Then a mysterious young boy promises to make a dream of her come true, if she play a guessing game with him...
The Wingless Swallow: In Taiwan, a picture book writer, who has never mentions any memory from her past, enchantedly gets off the train she is riding at a small station. She walks into a little library, where someone with strange while familiar voice is reading the story from a picture book...
Two short films by young Japanese diector Masayuki Koide.
Directed by: Masayuki KOIDE,
Starring: Sayuri OYAMADA, Kanata HONGO,
Produced by: STAAA Entertainments (Tokyo?).
Images: Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, J.A. Media Ltd., Star Overseas, Migma Film AB, Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI), Sveriges Television (SVT), Film i Väst, Ocean Deep Films, Migma West HB, STAAA Entertainments.