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Love and Duty
Chinese Movie - 19318.0
It's the story of Yang Nai Fan who runs from her arranged marriage to be with her true love, Li Zu Yi. It details the poverty she must endure for breaking with tradition. (Source: Wikipedia) ~~ Adapted from the novel…
Early Summer
Japanese Movie - 19517.9
Noriko lives in postwar Tokyo with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her friends, her more traditionally minded family worries about the fact that she’s still single at the advanced age of 28.…
Flag in the Mist
Japanese Movie - 19657.9
Kiriko attempts to hire a well-known lawyer to defend her brother's murder case. The lawyer turns Kiriko down as she cannot afford him. Some time later, Kiriko encounters the lawyer again, but this time it is he who…
No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti
Taiwanese Movie - 20097.9
Li Wu Hsiung is a middle-aged man without a profession or education. He does odd jobs on the quayside and lives with his little daughter in illegal accommodations. The child's mother left soon after her birth, but the…
The Girl Raised As A Future Daughter-In-Law
Korean Movie - 19657.9
A poor widow's daughter is taken into a rich family as a future daughter-in-law. Her mother-in-law is so talkative that she leads a tough life. But her little husband loves her very much and also her father-in-law is…
Sports Queen
Chinese Movie - 19347.9
The story begins with Lin Ying, a free-spirited girl who comes from a wealthy, rural family in Shanghai. She is initially set up with a suitor, but after displaying outstanding athletic prowess, she goes to attend a…
The Sword of Doom
Japanese Movie - 19667.9
Film shows the story of the samurai for whose only sense of life is swordsmanship. But he's not using his skills for the right purposes. Jidageki directed by Okamoto Kihachi. ~~ Adapted from the novel "大菩薩峠"…
Little Toys
Chinese Movie - 19337.9
Sister Ye is the master craftswoman in a village of toymakers that is subject to outside attacks. A series of personal tragedies reduces her to a shell of herself, until she breaks and rallies the townsfolk to fight…
Sea and Poison
Japanese Movie - 19867.9
Downed American fliers in WW II are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in medical experiments. (Source: IMDb) ~~ Adapted from the novel of the same name.
Cupola, Where the Furnaces Glow
Japanese Movie - 19627.9
Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl’s dreams of higher education. (Source: Letterboxd) ~~ Adapted from the novel by Hayafune Chiyo.
Kontora
Japanese Movie - 20217.9
Guided by her grandfather's WWII-era diary, Sora searches for a mysterious trove in the wilderness of her hometown. Meanwhile, a mysterious mute and backward-walking homeless man wanders into town who may be the catalyst…
Labyrinth of Dreams
Japanese Movie - 19977.7
Tomiko is a conductor in a rural bus driven by the handsome Tatsuo. Tomiko had received a letter from her best friend Tsuyako, a conductor in another bus company, just after Tsuyako was killed in a bus accident. Tsuyako…
The Peach Girl
Chinese Movie - 19317.7
The film deals with an innocent country girl, who is corrupted by a landlord's son.
Thirdworld
Thai Movie - 19987.7
A depiction of the landscape, both metaphorically and realistically, of Panyi island.
Bayaning 3rd World
Filipino Movie - 19997.7
Two filmmakers try to create a film venturing on the life of José Rizal. Before they do that, they try to investigate on the heroism of the Philippine national hero. Of particular focus is his supposed retraction of…
Street Without End
Japanese Movie - 19347.6
Naruse Mikio’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a suffocatingly domestic…
A Public Square in Tokyo
Japanese Movie - 18987.3
Location: Japan, Tokyo, near the Imperial Palace, Honshu Pedestrian traffic on the square.
Three Outlaw Samurai
Japanese Movie - 19647.6
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades…
Fires on the Plain
Japanese Movie - 19597.6
An agonizing portrait of desperate Japanese soldiers stranded in a strange land during World War II, a compelling descent into psychological and physical oblivion. Denied hospital treatment for tuberculosis and cast…
Mr. Thank You
Japanese Movie - 19367.5
Based on a short story by Nobel Prize-winning author Kawabata Yasunari, this lighthearted road film follows the rolling wheels of a country bus manned by a driver who says "thank you" to everyone he encounters. "Mr.…
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