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Garden of Life
Taiwanese Drama - 2012, 20 episodes8.0
Chen Shui He is a farmer from Zhongliao. He is injured during the 921 Earthquake, leaving him unable to walk, and changing his life forever. Hitting rock bottom, the love and care of those around him give him the courage…
Ni Ya Da
Taiwanese Drama - 2010, 21 episodes8.7
Ni Ya Da is a fourth grade elementary school student whose father is always busy and mother is constantly looking for a new job. He isn't picky with his food, as long as he gets a meal. And through his eyes, we get to…
Agrarian Utopia
Thai Movie - 2009
"Agrarian Utopia" is a fictional documentary about two debt-ridden farmers that are forced to grow rice on someone else's land. (Source: MyDramaList)
Poo Ying Khon Nun Chue Boonrawd
Thai Drama - 2000
The story is about Boonrawd, a girl born in a poor family in the 1970s. (Source: MyDramaList)
Red Persimmon
Taiwanese Movie - 19968.0
In 1949, the Communists take over mainland. The refugees and the military arrive in the Keelung Harbor in Taiwan. While the father holds secret meetings with other generals in attempt to recover the lost land, the kids…
Hindi Kita Malilimutan
Filipino Movie - 1993
It tells the story of an unusual relationship between a brother and a sister. Rowena, an ambitious lass influenced by her peers is disgraced by her brother's illiteracy. A harmonious relationship is suddenly ruined.…
Strawman
Taiwanese Movie - 198710.0
Chronicles the last days of Japanese rule in a Taiwanese village, in a quasi-comical style. [Source: IMDB)
Forest of the Little Bear
Japanese Movie - 19877.7
A man returns to his impoverished family in 1928 and decides to seek the reward put on the head of a one-eared man-eating bear. He kills the bear but faces a dilemma when he sees the bear left a helpless cub behind.…
Manee Din
Thai Drama - 1980
Prarng is the eldest daughter of a Yigké dancer. She has a sister and a brother, and she hopes that someday she could also dance Yigké like her mother. The family is poor, making their living on Yigké dance and washing…
The Yellow Muffler
Hong Kong Movie - 1972
Two sisters, Ching-ping and Pai Hung struggle to find a workable act after their magician father and younger sister leave to try their luck in Taiwan. A good friend gets them cast in a new movie, and the rest is history….…
Uzushio
Japanese Drama - 1964, 310 episodes8.0
The 4th NHK Asadora. Starring Michiko Hayashi as a woman born in poverty who lives a brave life. She lost her husband in war and now must take care of their 5-year-old child alone. ~~ Adapted from the novel of the same…
Fry Pan no Uta
Japanese Special - 1963, 1 episodes
Yasuyoshi Yasuda, is a newspaper writer, who after war, has changes the place of residence. Earlier, he also resigned from the teaching position, while at the same time, trying to support his wife and child. Soon, however,…
Ashita no Kaze
Japanese Drama - 1962, 288 episodes8.0
The 2nd NHK Asadora and the first Asadora to be broadcast in 15-minute episodes Monday through Saturday. Starring Fumiko Watanabe in a drama of a poor family after the war.
Anarhan
Chinese Movie - 196210.0
The story takes place in 1949, during the Chinese Communist Revolution. In a village in Kashgar County of southern Xinjiang, the big landowner Osman forces marriage on peasant Sadiq's daughter, Anarxan. After a failed…
Myriad of Lights
Chinese Movie - 1959
This tale of familial warfare and sacrifice takes place in hard-pressed Shanghai at the end of the 1940s. Hu Zhi Qing can barely support his wife and children, and his situation is worsened by the unexpected arrival…
Hi no Ataru Ie
Japanese Movie - 1954
On the outskirts of Tokyo, the family of Nakahara Mitsu lives in one of the small huts surrounded by barracks and tin pens. Mitsu’s husband died in the war, and she was left alone with four children and works as a…
Dokkoi Ikiteru
Japanese Movie - 1951
About the struggles of day laborers to achieve dignity and a standard of living above the starvation level. (Source: Letterboxd)
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