Sports Queen

7.8

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 Mother's Love

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives. (Source: letterboxd)

Golden Plow

The story is about the adventures of a young ambitious farmer who hails from the city and migrates to Davao, the land of promise. Pioneering in the South, he meets a rural teacher with whom he falls in love. Things…

Marriage Check-up

Hyun Goo, who has been widowed for 10 years, opens a hospital in a small rural city. When a real estate agency owner Ko Seol Bong's daughter, Hwang Ja is ill in bed, her father takes her to a hospital. But when he…

Ten'yawan'ya

6.0

Wary of being accused of war crimes, Inumaru Junkichi moves to his mentor's hometown, where he meets various eccentric characters. This movie depicts the contrast between the devastation of Tokyo and the laid-back…

Early Train from Taipei

Made as Taiwan’s economy took off in the 1960s, "Early Train from Taipei" is a classic country-to-city melodrama of development. To save her bankrupt rural family, Xiu Lan takes the train to Taipei to earn money.…

Seishun to Hananda

6.0

Nonomura Kensuke, after returning from the United States, becomes an English teacher at Moriyama High School, the rural town of Moriyama, and will become close with his students through rugby, while fighting against…

What Is Youth?

Kensuke Nonomura, who has returned from the United States, has been appointed as an English teacher at Moriyama High School in rural and Moriyama towns, where he develops interaction with students and human education…

The Silent Swordsman

6.0

A young swordsman is tasked to lead a patriotic secret society to fight a traitorous general who conspires with the enemy to invade their country. In due course, he meets two pretty sisters from a rural tribe and is…

Daughter-in-law

Man-bok, a city cleaning lady, rescues Palpuni, a rural virgin who is in danger of being taken to the Sachang Cave as soon as they go to Tokyo, and gives him a job as a mother-in-law at the house of the Yangsajang,…