Li, een groot strijder, wil de rest van z'n leven in rust doorbrengen. Hij besluit zijn beroemde, krachtige zwaard aan een oude vriend te geven. Deze wordt echter gestolen en Li moet samen met de krijgster Yu achter het zwaard aan.
Gebaseerd op een beroemd verhaal uit de Japanse folklore. Een oude man vindt op een dag een baby in een stralende bamboeplant. Het jonge meisje, gezegend met een uitzonderlijke schoonheid, blijkt later een prinses van buitenaardse komaf te zijn.
In de veertiende eeuw, ten tijde van de Ming-dynastie, neemt de jonge Yang (Hsu Feng) haar intrek in een verlaten vesting. Ze raakt bevriend met de moeder van de jonge schrijver Ku. Op een avond nodigt ze Ku uit en brengt de nacht met hem door.
When a young girl hears a strange noise, the group goes to investigate.
For the 'Are'are people of the Solomon Islands, the most valued music is that of the four types of panpipe ensembles. With the exception of slit drums, all musical instruments are made of bamboo; therefore the general word for instruments and the music performed with them is "bamboo" ('au). This film shows the making of panpipes, from the cutting the bamboo in the forest to the making of the final bindings. The most important part of the work consists in shaping each tube to its necessary length. Most 'Are'are panpipe makers measure the length of old instruments before they shape new tubes. Master musician 'Irisipau, surprisingly, takes the measure using his body, and adjusts the final tuning by ear. For the first time we can see here how the instruments and their artificial equiheptatonic scale-seven equidistant degrees in an octave-are practically tuned.
A young woman and her undead mother take on some greedy real estate developers who will stop at nothing to get their land.
A group of men in North-Eastern Bangladesh are facing a dangerous mission. They are to conquer the river, with a 70 meter long raft. The ride is 300 kilometre long, always downstream. The freight: 25 000 bamboo trees. The men's path begins in the dense forests of the Sylhet region in North-Eastern Bangladesh. Millions of bamboo trunks are hacked down there and being slid down by the workers along the dangerous mountain-stream into the valley. The bamboos reach the river Kushiara through hundreds of these channels. Here, the trunks are bundled - a giant raft arises. Then the long journey begins.
Tour guide Berta is having a tough time making ends meet. She’s forced to let her son Omel travel to the big city to take a job at an electronics store. Luis is studying to be a seaman, but can’t seem to pass his exams. His girlfriend Dolores is working as an intern at a resort, and dreams of going abroad as well. Sandra, following a painful event back in Manila, returns to her native Bohol, taking her spoiled son Eric with her.
2012／HD／Color／19min／