2007 Milwaukee Asian Film Festival
Friday, March 30 – Thursday, April 5
3pm ** FREE **
Jump Boys (Fan gun ba! Nan hai)
(Lin Yu- Hsien , China , Mandarin & Taiwanese w/ Eng. St . , 85 min., Video)
Best Documentary - 2005 Golden Horse Award – Taipei
This untraditional documentary humorously follows a group of boys from different backgrounds and families who share an unusual passion. They don't play computer games or hang out at McDonald's. Instead, they go straight to the gymnasium after school, which is about the only thing they have in common. The training is painstaking and their coach must be both a tough teacher and a loving mother? to his students. This playful documentary offers a window into the lives of these future gymnastic champions, and into China 's fascination with the sport.
5pm ** FREE **
Mongolian Ping Pong (Lü cao di)
(Ning Hao , China/Mongolia, in Mongolian w/ Eng. St., 102 min., 35mm, 2004)
7pm ** FREE **
Japan 's Peace Constitution
(John Junkerman, English, 70 min., Video, 2005)
In 2005, sixty years after the end of World War II, a conservative Japanese government is pressing ahead with plans to revise the nation's constitution and jettison its famous no-war clause, Article 9. This timely, hard-hitting documentary places the ongoing debate over the constitution in an international context: What will revision mean to Japan 's neighbors, Korea and China ? How has the US-Japan military alliance warped the constitution and Japan 's role in the world? How is the unprecedented involvement of Japan 's Self-Defense Force in the occupation of Iraq perceived in the Middle East?
