How to Raise a Sissy Boy in the South

It is a talk show that brims with glamorous songs and dances. It will bring tears to your eyes and laughter to your lips. A 40-year-old drag queen grew up in a small town in southern Taiwan. His mother owned a beauty…

Reunion

The story starts with a group of children in a rural primary school in the 1950's who meet up to reminisce at different turning points in their lives, high school, college, at 40. They share their happy and difficult…

Mizuiro no Toki

6.0

The 15th NHK Asadora. Starring Shinobu Otake in a story about a young woman striving to become a doctor and her mother, who is a nurse. The first six-month Asadora. Average rating of 40.1%.

My Season

Kobayashi Shigeru, the Director of Photography of the documentary film Aga ni Ikiru (Living with the River Aga) spent three years making this documentary in a home for severely mentally and physically handicapped children…

South of the Clouds

Xu Da Qin, a retired Chinese factory worker, returns to the remote Yunnan province, where he hopes to reconcile himself with the life and opportunity he passed up in this place 40 years ago. (Source: Letterboxd)

Chongqing

4.0

In China, Xuie lives an impoverished life with her father who is far from helpful. She is living in Chongqing, the city of 40 million people. She works as a teacher, teaching Mandarin to foreigners. Even though she…

Shougeki! 3 Sedai Hikaku TV: Generation Tengoku

8.6

Talk battles between representatives from different generations, such as: “Modern Mango Generation” (10-20 age group), “Peak Period Kiwi Generation” (40-50 age group) and “Time of Creation Banana Generation”…

Dr. Nurse Aid

7.0

Kuraki Medical Centre is a local private hospital which gets more than 200 patients hospitalised for emergencies each year. 40-year-old Mori Takeru (Ozawa Yukiyoshi) works here. He has set his sights on being a top…

Cinema Kabuki Next: Aterui

Aterui is a play about ethnic minorities in Japan, about the subjugation of “others.” In this case it is about the Yamato Empire’s attempt to control the Emishi people from michi no oku,or the “end of the land,”…

Riding Uphill

Life is an uphill road to run furiously. A former pro-baseball player finds his passion again in Keirin - a professional bicycle racing sport. Hamajima Koji is a 40-year-old, training at Shuzenji bicycle race school…