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April 19-22 -- This year ºÙºÙÊÓƵ' 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 ºÙºÙÊÓƵ 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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