ZOO
		Hiroshi Ando | 26:17 | Japan | 2004 A man killed his girlfriend in a deserted zoo. Everyday, he goes back to the zoo to take a picture of the dead body. Gradually something unusual starts to happen inside him. The zoo, which was supposed to be there, disappeared and he begins to receive unknown photos.
		Hiroshi Ando Ando Hiro was born in Tokyo in 1965. He got into a film production during his university days. In 1989, he started his career as a freelance assistant director. In 1993, he directed his first film Super Abnormal Sex, Excessive Perversity (editor's translation), which won the Newcomer Director's Award at the Zoom Up Film Festival. His film blue (2001), starring Mikako Ichikawa, won Best Actress Award at the 24th Moscow. Intl. Film Festival. His is also involved in the TV series "Keitai Keiji". His visual expression is well done through out all of his films. Original Story by Otsuichi Although there has been a recent boom in ultra-young (under 20) writers, the most pioneering and popular of the crop is undoubtedly Otsuichi. Born in 1978, Otsuichi's debut novel Summer and Fireworks and My Corpse (editor's translation), completed at the age of 17, won the Grand Prize of the 6th Jump Novel and Non-fiction Award. He is regarded as a genius for his phenomenal imagination and narrative structure. He is popular in the Mystery/Horror genre. In 2003, he published the short story compilation ZOO (Shueisha).

		The Bike Boy
		Yoo Ji-Tae | 41:00 | Korea | 2003 Korea's A-list actor Yoo Ji-Tae's directorial debut captures with great sensitivity the delicate boundaries of adolescence. A blunt and naïve boy has a crush on a girl. She feels the same way but pretends otherwise. He thinks that riding a nice bike would impress her, and when he shows up with it, she has also prepared something for him.
		Everyone has a beautiful memory, which is good enough to be a touching story. I tried to see things through the frame of imagination and film, and go beyond mere description of real life experiences. More focus was put on drawing reality out of the amateur actors... I've also tried to keep my eyes on the same level with my little actors. - Yoo Ji-Tae Yoo Ji-Tae Yoo Ji-Tae was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1976, and is a graduate student of GSAM, at Chung-Ang University. A leading actor of his generation, he has acted for numerous renowned Korean directors like Hong Sang-Soo, Park Chan-Wook, Hur Jin-Ho, Kim Jeong-Kwon and Kim Seong-Ho in celebrated works including Ditto (2000), One Fine Spring Day (2001), Into the Mirror (2003), Old Boy (2003), Woman is the Future of Man (2004).