Tagged: amy recommends

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Bibi Zhou – NOW/WOW

The double album by Zhou Bichang came about after Bibi completed her music studies in California and graduated from the music conservatory in Guangdong. Both NOW and WOW sport very different music styles and two very different Bibis.

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Okuribito

Okuribito tells the story of Daigo Kobayashi, an average cellist who’s lost his job and is forced to go back to his hometown where he finds a job as a traditional funeral “artist” to prepare the dead for their “departure.”

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Girl Who Leapt Through Time, The

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time tells the story of Makoto Konno, your typical, tomboy-ish high school student. One day Makoto falls in a classroom and she suddenly has the ability to travel through time as she wishes.

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Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce is the story of Mildred, a housewife whose unconditional love for her child would lead her to be involved in a murder investigation.

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Dream High

Six students at Kirin Art High School work to achieve their dreams of becoming stars. In between struggles and moments of joy, they find out their true selves.

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Auld Lang Syne

Auld Lang Syne follows two Korean men that used to be lovers as they meet once again by chance.

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HaHaHa

Sang-soo Hong’s HaHaHa follows the story of Moon-Kyeong, a filmmaker who’s going to Canada, and Jong-Sik, a movie critic — two long-time friends who meet and tell each other about their lives over good food and drinks.

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Rushmore

Rushmore is the second feature-length film in director Wes Anderson’s filmography, telling the story of Max Fischer, a very unlikeable, precocious, extracurricular overachieving teenager from a private school obsessively in “love” with Ms. Cross.

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Beautiful Boxer

Beautiful Boxer is based on the true life story of model/actress Parinya Charoenphol, a Muay Thai champion who was born a boy. Parinya Charoenphol’s struggle to become what she is today is what makes this film worth a watch.