Asian drama, adventure reach US screens.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)

The Christian Science Monitor | September 29, 2000 | Copyright

Asian movies are having a banner year with American audiences. Two pictures by the late Japanese master Akira Kurosawa are now in theaters - "Madadayo" and "Ran" - and the current New York Film Festival (through Oct. 9) is presenting the US premieres of several other movies from the region.

The first of these to reach commercial screens are markedly different in everything except the excellence of their quality: the Japanese adventure "Gohatto," which means "Taboo," and the Taiwanese drama "Yi Yi," also known as "A One and a Two...."

Of the two, Yi Yi ...

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