Gurinder Chadha in Person Acting Our Age (Gurinder Chadha, UK, 1993): Gurinder Chadha was born in Kenya and has lived in Britain most of her life. With short films and now a new feature, Bhaji on the Beach, she is in the forefront of a new British cinema that focuses on the sensibilities and generational conflicts of the UK's often ignored South Asian communities. In Acting Our Age she gives voice to elderly Indians who explore the problems of aging and abandonment in England, teaching them the craft of videomaking so that, with this medium, they actually confront their abandoners, from their grown children to party-line politicians. "Spirited, inspiring proof that it's never too late to take matters into your own hands" (Sharon Mizota, AAIFF). (30 mins, Color, Video) The Good Wife of Tokyo (Kim Longinotto, Claire Hunt, UK, 1993): "We are ninjas we are not geishas," proclaims the three-woman British rock band Frank Chickens, performing in Tokyo. Their leader, Kazuko Hohki, has come home to interview women, young and old, about life in Japan today-and to marry, to please her mother. This kind of paradox is central to The Good Wife of Tokyo, a beautiful complement to our Ozu series in being a study of the contradictions of family life for women in Japan. Kazuko's mother is a priest in the religion known as House of Development, which draws middle-aged women to its creed of laughter and faith, and draws them out in frank discussions. One woman's difficult mother-in-law lived to be 100, another tells of her husband's suicide and apologizes for the inconvenience...classic stuff. But change is in the air in a new women's culture. (52 mins, In English and Japanese with English subtitles, Color, 16mm)