Riverside Code at Qingming Festival: Commoner's Fury

Through its vivid portrayal of the artisan community during the final years of the Northern Song dynasty, the drama successfully combines historical storytelling with modern perspectives. It features both gripping…

Outland

This is an overseas pursuit to maintain national security. Here is a high-tech overseas special service team that depicts a picture of a modern battlefield. Ren Yi Sheng, the old partner of the head of the National…

Ren Jian You Wei

Through the smoke and fire rising from the kitchen stoves of Wantangju, a century-old restaurant in Beijing, the turbulent rises and falls of China’s modern history over the past thirty years are reflected. In the…

Stateless

Adapted from Jun Takami's title, with the same name, serialized in the magazine Modern Romance.

Song of Home

Mizoguchi’s 30th film is the earliest surviving example of his work, and his only film of the 1920s to survive complete. Song of Home finds the director already concerning himself with the collision of traditional…

The Reunion

Three comrades-in-arms, who promised to meet again in five years, parted ways, but unexpectedly meet again while living different lives in the complicated modern world. (Source: Japanese = Nikkatsu.com || Translation…

Akutoku

A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a modern youth who is attracted to the evil path. Saburi Shin, a well-known actor who also demonstrated his skill as a director…

Goryeojang

7.6

Prior to the adoption of Confucianism, it was the tradition to abandon one's parents on a mountainside if they were over 70 years of age. In the ancient kingdom of Goryeo, now modern Korea, a nobleman defies this tradition…

The Chair

7.0

Interesting conceptual film where people of various ages and professions are asked to sit on a chair for 15 minutes with nothing to do. We see how bored and uneasy modern people start to feel when wasting time. (Letterboxd)

Kimitachi ga Ite Boku ga Ita

An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors and their kind-hearted teacher, Mr. Yabuki. Faced with the rigors of growing up in modern times, students often look to Mr. Yabuki for advice…

Zhan Wei Hua

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Zhu Xu

Zhu Xu was a Chinese actor. He was well known for his roles in Zhang Yang's Shower and Wu Tianming's The King of Masks, the latter film helping him garner a Best Actor prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival. (source: Wikipedia)