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Asian Film Fest Comes to °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ

April 19-22 -- This year °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ' annual Asian Film Festival showcases six highly acclaimed and, in some cases, extremely rare films from the Far East, all to be shown in 194 Chemistry Building on the °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ campus in conjunction with Asian Pacific Culture Week. All films are free and shown in their original languages with English subtitles. The schedule is as follows: 7 p.m. April 19: "The Spy Lee Chul-Jin," a 1999 South Korean film directed by Jang Jin about a North Korean spy; 6:30 p.m. April 20: "Blind Shaft," a 2002 Chinese, Hong Kong and German thriller directed by Yang Li and set in the mining towns of Northern China; 8:30 p.m. April 20: "The Wedding Banquet," a 1993 Taiwanese/American film directed by Ang Lee about a gay Taiwanese-American pressured by his family to get married; 7 p.m. April 21: "Farewell My Concubine," a 1993 Hong Kong, Chinese film directed by Chen Kaige about Beijing Opera performers during the Cultural Revolution; 6:30 p.m. April 22: "Conduct Zero," a 2002 South Korean film directed by Jo Geun-shik about the toughest guy in high school who falls for a cute girl from a well-to-do family; and 8:30 p.m. April 22: "Séance," a 2000 Japanese film directed by Kurosawa Kiyoshi about a psychic who can see dead spirits.

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Susanne Rockwell, Web and new media editor, (530) 752-2542, sgrockwell@ucdavis.edu

Kriste Gerhard, Japanese, Chinese and Film Studies, (530) 752-0830, kmgerhard@ucdavis.edu

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University Society, Arts & Culture

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