Asian Drama

The Homeless Student is a film adaptation of a national best-seller autobiography novel "The Homeless Junior High School Student". After a term closing ceremony, Hiroshi comes up home and finds the yellow tape attachment on the entrance of his house. Hiroshi suddenly becomes homeless at fourteen. He starts to spend his nights in public parks and eat cardboard to survive. Homeless life with laughter and tears. However, through the homeless life, Hiroshi learns important things as a person. ..

Duration: 1 hr. 56 min.

Ratings: 7.1

The film tells the story of China flower one family suffered brutal babes crazy story. A girl came to a China family, all make me on the spot turns staged: wonderful mother (Xu Fan ornaments), forcing the subway family husband bed, jealousy on lips temptation, to send her daughter go abroad, to the dead makeup is also willing to. There is no sense of being invisible father (Chen Jianbin decoration), life is from the talented guy to grass root uncle, even wearing Bikini and let the Beijing Opera make the dead come back to life, embrace the babes get wet. Now, break the rules, child, husband dangerous savage...... Mother finally awakening!

"Actress is not just the story that charts the rise of Kinuyo Tanaka, played brilliantly by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who mesmerized and illuminated the screen with her charismatic performance of a legend, from her naively youthful days in pigtails, to coiffed professional veteran of the industry. We see how she started off in the studio system being one of many potential talents available, having her family's economical hopes all pinned on her, and down to having a sugar daddy of sorts in Hiroshi Shimizu (Toru Watanabe) looking over her shoulder, whom she would get into and out of an unhappy secret marriage. Sayuri Yoshinaga provided that spark to endear herself to the audience, and needless to say, made me sit up and wonder just how the real actress was like in person, with her steely guts and perseverance in an industry that saw its brightest and darkest days during militarism and WWII." From IMDB By Dick Steel, Singapore In Actress, Kon Ichikawa shows us much of the life of Kinuyo Tanaka from the time she started as a hopeful in the Studio System until her work with Mizoguchi in Life of Oharu in 1952. The biography is good in itself, but it is cut with documentary footage detailing the state of Japanese cinema at the time in question. This gives us a very enlightening look at the development of the industry as a backdrop to the actress's career as it progresses. In the dramatic/biographic part we meet Shimizu, Gosho, Ozu and Mizuguchi to name some of the significant directors Tanaka worked with and in most cases had emotional relationships with as well. I've been watching Japanese cinema for a long time and this film was a real eye-opener in that it made the whole history of Japanese film come alive while showing a large part of Tanaka's career. It's unfortunate this film only covers her career until 1952. She had so many great roles, but to take on her role in Sandakan No.8 three years before her death in 1977 was impressive. It is surely one of the most impressive displays of acting I have ever seen. Interestingly enough, Sayuri Yoshinaga, who plays Tanaka brilliantly in this film in 1987, went on to have her own tour de force in Nagasaki Bura Bura Bushi in 2000 in another biography, that of the famous geisha, Aihachi. Mind you, in her case she is still doing critically acclaimed work in major productions to this day.

The Legend Of Bruce Lee is a film that takes portions of the 50-part TV series and condenses it into a three hour film about the life of the legendary martial-arts star who changed the world with his style, his movies, his theories and his charismatic acting that transcends time and race. Millions of fans over the 30+ years since his early death at the age of 32 have followed in his footsteps, read his books, been entertained by his movies and learned his own unique form of martial-arts known as Jeet Kune Do. An inspiration to his fans, friends and family this movie is the true story of his life. Produced by Shannon Lee this is the story of his life, and authorized by the Lee family, this is the story of…..The Legend Of Bruce Lee.

In a time of political and social unrest in 19th century Korea, an uncouth, self-taught painter explores his natural talent amidst the repressive world around him.

In 1928, a group of boys in Taiwan play on the local team Kano. The team has never scored a run or won a baseball game. A former baseball player (Masatoshi Nagase) now accountant in Taiwan decides to manage the unusual group of local and Japanese boys. His goal is to take the team to Koshien (Japan's national baseball championships for high schools).

Kaneko Misuzu Monogatari (TBS Drama Special, 09 July 2012) tells about the brief life of poet and songwriter Kaneko Misuzu (real name, Kaneko Teru). The story starts in the spring of 1920, Kaneko Teru (Ueto Aya) has just graduated from high school. She is young and vibrant and has dreams of becoming a poet. Her cousin, Masasuke (Imai Tsubasa) is very fond of her, and yearns to tell her of his feelings. However, he does not know the awful truth about his adoption, and that he is actually the younger brother of Teru. Feeling that Masasuke and Teru are getting too close for comfort, Masasuke's adoptive father tries to separate the two. Later on, Teru will also be forced into an unhappy marriage with a man she does not love... ~ earthcolors

"Turning point in the history of Deng Xiaoping," is the official commemoration of Deng Xiaoping's 110th birthday this year's "generous." Watch this film say in advance: the play for the first time demonstrated the high level of political struggle since 1976, "hit in the past few touches of bold theme", "taste less propaganda", "young people are able to see down." Some people think that "must be fire", it was said that the film will be controversial. The producers said "give leadership at all levels of review discs over ten thousand"; allegedly families watching the first episode of Deng Xiaoping said: "This is our family's Father." According to media reports, a total of 48 sets the play, describing the 1976-1984 years of Deng Xiaoping, Deng Xiaoping was 8 years most glorious eight years, his personal political career reached its peak, while China is in the most subtle, the most important turning point, high-rise in complex scenarios of years, including smash gang of four, came to Hua Guofeng, Deng Xiaoping how to win in the political game, of these films are not evaded. Sensitive figure in the history of Hua Guofeng, Hu Yaobang, also did not shy away. Deng life of the content, but also play more than a manifestation of such treatment, brush.

In 1895 (Meiji 28), Nonaka Chiyoko prays for the safety of her husband Itaru who is attempting to climb Mt Fuji in midwinter. If he accomplishes what no one has done before, he would finally build an observatory on the mountain’s summit with the intention of staying there alone in the winter. He will be able to observe the weather in order to advance meteorological studies even though it may be at the cost of his own life. Burning with a conviction that the country cannot be changed if no commoner demonstrates it first, Itaru has the support of his parents and younger brother but Chiyoko is absolutely anxious. She is convinced that her husband will certainly die of such recklessness if she lets him go alone, and decides to climb Mt Fuji together with him. However, this is vehemently opposed by her mother-in-law Tomiko who berates her that her place is at home, and Chiyoko apparently reconsiders. In order to join Itaru, she hides this plan from the people around her, deceives Tomiko and does everything possible to finally carry it out. On the summit of Mt Fuji in midwinter – a feat no one has yet achieved, husband and wife battle the cold and altitude sickness as they begin their observations.

Episodes: 6

Duration: 58 min.

Ratings: 7.2

Aired On: Saturday

Based on the life of Santetsu Yasui (December 27, 1639-November 1, 1715), appointed as the first official astronomer in the Edo Period and would go on to create the Jokyo calendar at the imperial request.