The Crying Wind

5.5

Seikichi, 70, makes his living fishing from a small boat off the coast of Okinawa. He and his 12-year-old grandson Akira live in a small, tree-lined village in the northern part of the island which is surrounded by…

Sea Cat

2.5

Yoshimitsu Morita directs the big screen adaptation of Shiho Tanimura's book, Umineko ("Sea Cat"). Set in a northern coastal village, the film revolves around a fisherman's wife who finds herself attracted to her brother-in-law,…

The Thousand Year Fire

Having lost both his mother and father, an 11-year-old city boy is sent to live with his grandparents in a small seaside village. Feeling responsible for his father's accidental death, he becomes increasingly introverted…

A Side, B Side, Sea Side

5.0

Chen Tian is a schoolgirl in Hong Kong about to leave for Beijing for college. Before she leaves for good, she decides to spend an unforgettable trip with her best friends in a distant fishing village. There she discovers…

Rainbow

Having witnessed all his students died for conflicts among warlords and handicapped during a battle, a painter leaves his troop behind, settles down at a small utopia-like village and becomes a kite maker. This is…

Tea-Horse Road Series: Delamu

Since ancient times, China's two primary land routes connecting it to the outside world have been the Silk Road in the north and Tea Horse-Road in the south. The mountain village of Bingzhongluo-Tibetan for "Village…

Simsons

Four Japanese girls, three totally inept at the sport, come together to form a curling team in Northern Japan. The town is famous for scallops and curling, and peoples' status in this little fishing village is based…

Cold Autumn

7.1

The beautiful 18-year-old Qiu Hong attracted everyone's attention when she first came to work in Gao Shangping. The three big families of Qin, Ling and Huang in the village have always had discord, and in order to…

The Woven Stories of the Other

10.0

Gigi, a New People's Army (NPA) rebel, teaches young comrades the facets of their struggle as they continue to wait after they were ambushed. On a nearby village, Junjun and his fellow soldiers take a rest. He attempts…

Shining Red Star

8.0

The story takes place in the early winter of 1932. In the red cradle of the Chinese revolution, there is a mountain village called Liu Xi, which is home to dozens of poor people, hungry and cold and living in dire…