Asian docs about Asia
by Jasikedevicius | created - 12 Jan 2022 | updated - 2 months ago | PublicDocumentaries made in Asia, by Asians & about Asia
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1. The Story of Yanagawa's Canals (1987)
167 min | Documentary, History
A live-action documentary film, this independent film was produced by Nibariki (Miyazaki's personal office), with the revenue from Nausicaä. At first, it was supposed to be an animated film... See full summary »
Director: Isao Takahata
Votes: 199
2. Hokusai (1953)
23 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
A documentary about the life and art of wood-block artist Katsushika Hokusai.
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | Star: Yoshi Katô
Votes: 372
3. E o kaku kodomotachi: jidôga o rikai suru tame ni (1956)
38 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Susumu Hani
Votes: 43
4. Ikebana (1957)
32 min | Documentary, Short
The history and art of ikebana, a centuries old Japanese art of flower arrangement and a look inside the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, where the director's father Sofu Teshigahara worked as the grand master of the school.
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | Stars: Tomoko Naraoka, Sofu Teshigahara
Votes: 312
5. Tokyo 1958 (1958)
24 min | Documentary, Short
Eight filmmakers collaborate with Teshigahara to bring a newsreel-style snapshot of Tokyo in 1957-58, when it had eight and a half million people and was the largest city in the world. The ... See full summary »
Directors: Susumu Hani, Yoshirô Kawazu, Kyushiro Kusakabe, Sadamu Maruo, Zenzô Matsuyama, Kanzaburo Mushanokoji, Masahiro Ogi, Ryuichiro Sakisaka, Hiroshi Teshigahara | Star: Donald Richie
Votes: 246
6. Fatma of the Forest (1979)
28 min | Documentary, Short
"Fatma of the Forest" documentary, screened in 1979, International Year of Children, reflects life, longings and a major "fear" in her subconscious of an 12-years old "woodcutter" girl ... See full summary »
Director: Suha Arin
Votes: 171
7. Sisler Kovulunca (1986)
41 min | Documentary, Short
With ages ranging from 64 to 104, the film "When the Fog Dispelled" documents nine artisans who constructed many of these houses. Also revealing aspects of traditional Eastern Black Sea life.
Director: Suha Arin | Star: Sureyya Arin
Votes: 25
8. Smirennaya zhizn (1997)
75 min | Documentary
Examing the daily life of an elderly woman in rural Japan allows Sokurov to evoke how folkways (Japanese and Russian) shape our worldview.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Votes: 165
9. Dolce... (2000)
61 min | Documentary
A portrait of the widow of writer Toshio Shimao, living on an isolated island with her disabled daughter, shunning comforts and other company.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Miho Shimao, Maya Shimao
Votes: 156
10. Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers (1990)
70 min | Documentary
Independent Chinese documentary by Wu Wenguan following and interviewing a group of young artists around the time of the events Tiananmen about their lives and careers.
Director: Wenguang Wu | Stars: May May Ci Zhang, Bo Gao, Sen Mou, Dali Zhang
Votes: 63
11.
Century of Cinema (1995–1998)
Episode:
Naamsaang-neuiseung
(1998)
80 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Stanley Kwan examines queer themes in Chinese film for this insightful documentary, produced for the British Film Institute's "Century of Cinema" series. Using film clips, personal ... See full summary »
Director: Stanley Kwan | Stars: Cheh Chang, Kaige Chen, Leslie Cheung, Peggy Chiao
Votes: 162
12. Zhi fei ji (2001)
78 min | Documentary
The film follows a group of drug addicts.
Director: Liang Zhao | Stars: Fang Lei, Zhang Wei, Liang Yang, Wang Yinong
Votes: 37
13. San Yuan Li (2003)
45 min | Documentary
Armed with video cameras, twelve artists present a highly stylized portrait of SAN YUAN LI, a traditional village besieged by China's urban sprawl. China's rapid modernization literally ... See full summary »
Votes: 21
14. Cha ma gu dao xi lie (2004)
110 min | Documentary
Delamu ¨C Tibetan for "Peace Angel". 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Zhuangzhuang Tian | Star: Kuirong Wang
Votes: 185
15. Useless (2007)
80 min | Documentary
About people around fashion and clothing industry in China.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Star: Ke Ma
Votes: 316
16. Crime and Punishment (2007)
Not Rated | 122 min | Documentary
In a small town near China's North Korea border, a state police station exerts itself as a solicitous caretaker of the locals. As it goes out to catch criminals and punish them too, professionalism fades into the background.
Director: Liang Zhao | Stars: Wang Yu Fu, Ge Tao
Votes: 58
17. Last Train Home (2009)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Drama
A couple embarks on a journey home for Chinese new year along with 130 million other migrant workers, to reunite with their children and struggle for a future. Their unseen story plays out as China soars towards being a world superpower.
Director: Lixin Fan | Stars: Changhua Zhang, Yang Zhang, Suqin Chen, Qin Zhang
Votes: 3,717 | Gross: $0.29M
18. Petition (2009)
120 min | Documentary
It is a fantastic documentary about Chinese govt's systemic oppression and persecution toward ordinary folk who petition the government.
Director: Liang Zhao | Stars: Zhang Weiye, Xiao Yuan
Votes: 354
20. I Wish I Knew (2010)
116 min | Documentary, History
Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Michelangelo Antonioni, Yindi Cao, Hsin-i Chang, Danqing Chen
Votes: 834
21. Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above (2013)
93 min | Documentary, Drama
Documenting Taiwan from an aerial perspective offering a glimpse of Taiwan's natural beauty as well as the effect of human activities and urbanization on our environment.
Director: Po-lin Chi | Stars: Xiang Hong, Cing-Soong Lai, Nolay Piho, Nien-Jen Wu
Votes: 704
22. Yumen (2013)
Not Rated | 65 min | Documentary
'Yumen' combines ghost stories and the 'ruin tourism' to form a celluloid psychocollage of wandering souls, seeking connection to each other and a lost collective history among the frozen ... See full summary »
Directors: Xiang Huang, J.P. Sniadecki, Routao Xu
Votes: 61
23. Mountain Spirits (2014)
70 min | Documentary
Having grown up in the mountains Chiayi, installation artist WANG Wen-chih weaves his memories of mountains and forests into his work. Using natural materials such as bamboo, rattan and ... See full summary »
Directors: Singing Chen, Kuo-Liang Chiang
Votes: 9
24. The Chinese Mayor (2015)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary, Drama, News
DATONG follows the life and work of a controversial Chinese Communist Mayor GENG YANBO to tell the story about how he takes a radical reform to demolish 140,000 households and relocate half... See full summary »
Director: Hao Zhou | Stars: Li Fu, Ma Suying, Geng Yangbo, Song Yuhua
Votes: 871
25. Mr. Zhang Believes (2015)
135 min | Documentary, Drama
An experimental documentary epic, Mr. Zhang Believes recounts 30 years of China's 20th-century history through the story of Mr. Zhang Xianchi and the interacting forms of theatrical fiction and autobiography.
Director: Qiu Jiongjiong | Stars: Yifan Cai, Xiao'ou Ma, Yi Sicheng, Cheng Yang
Votes: 32
26. Behemoth (2015)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary
Under the sun, the heavenly beauty of grasslands will soon be covered by the raging dust of mines. Facing the ashes and noises caused by heavy mining , the herdsmen have no choice but to ... See full summary »
Director: Liang Zhao
Votes: 1,211
27. Another Year (2016)
Not Rated | 181 min | Documentary
Thirteen dinners of a Chinese migrant worker's family over the course of fourteen months. The film portrays a series of random occurrences. Joys, frustrations and the struggle for survival.... See full summary »
Director: Shengze Zhu
Votes: 48
28. Taming the Horse (2017)
118 min | Documentary
The documentary features Dong, a young man migrated from the wind-blown plains of Inner Mongolia to a densely populated Southern China, with his parents, during China's economic reform. ... See full summary »
Director: Tao Gu
Votes: 24
29. Rabindranath Tagore (1961)
54 min | Documentary, Biography
This documentary shows the life of the greatest Bengali talent of all time, Rabindranath Tagore. His work in Bengali culture and literature.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Kallol Bose, Subir Bose, Norman Ellis, Sovanlal Ganguli
Votes: 413
31. Dhrupad (1983)
72 min | Documentary
This documentary about the classical music of India covers a genre in which a text of poetry is sung.
Director: Mani Kaul | Stars: Fariduddin Dagar, Zia Mohiyuddin Dagar
Votes: 77
32. The Mind of Clay (1985)
92 min | Documentary, Drama
Director Mani Kaul poetically observes the ancient art of pottery and its deep cultural significance.
Director: Mani Kaul | Stars: Robin Das, Anita Kanwar, Ashok Sharma
Votes: 75
33. Hamara Shahar - Bombay, Our City (1985)
82 min | Documentary
The film story based on daily battle for survival of the 4 million slum dwellers of Bombay who make up half the city's population
Director: Anand Patwardhan | Stars: Deepa Arora, Rita Bhatia, Supriya Pathak, Om Puri
Votes: 58
34. Sukumar Ray (1987)
29 min | Short, Documentary
The life and work of the writer Sukumar Ray, Satyajit Ray's father. Ray made this film as a tribute to celebrate the centenary of his birth. The film comprises still photographs and readings from Sukumar Ray's writings.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Utpal Dutt, Haradhan Bannerjee, Satya Bannerjee
Votes: 161
36. Ryakushô: renzoku shasatsuma (1975)
86 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
A visual document of the life of serial killer Norio Nagayama, focusing entirely of his living environment with some narrated biographical information.
Director: Masao Adachi | Star: Masao Adachi
Votes: 222
37. Diary of a Yunbogi Boy (1965)
25 min | Documentary, Short
Yunbogi is a child who lives in a slum on the outskirts of Taegu, South Korea. Abandoned by his mother, Yunbogi must care for his two sisters and brother by taking on a series of small jobs.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Star: Hôsei Komatsu
Votes: 224
38. Kyoto, My Mother's Place (1991 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary
Story of Kyoto: its history, culture, and the role it has played in the director's life and the life of his mother.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Nagisa Ôshima, Ina Funatsuki, Tomi Shimada, Hikohachi Yamamoto
Votes: 84
39. Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
Not Rated | 170 min | Documentary, Sport
Kon Ichikawa examines the beauty and rich drama on display at the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo, creating a record of observations that range from the expansive to the intimate.
Director: Kon Ichikawa | Stars: Antonio Ambu, Gary Anderson, Gerry Ashworth, Polina Astakhova
Votes: 2,199
40. Sapporo Winter Olympics (1972)
Not Rated | 167 min | Documentary, Sport
A documentary about the 1972 Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo, Japan.
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Votes: 114
41. A Man Vanishes (1967)
130 min | Documentary, Drama
Plastics salesman Oshima disappeared without a word to anyone, and has been missing for two years. Shohei Imamura and his crew follow Oshima's fiancé Yoshie and actor Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as they investigate the disappearance.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Yoshie Hayakawa, Shôhei Imamura
Votes: 830
42. History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (1970)
105 min | Documentary
A documentary film showcasing life in postwar Japan as seen through the eyes of a bar hostess.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Chieko Akaza, Etsuko Akaza, Tami Akaza, Fukumi Kuroda
Votes: 236
43. In Search of the Unreturned Soldiers in Thailand (1971 TV Movie)
45 min | Documentary
In Thailand, Imamura brings together three Japanese soldiers who did not return home after World War II to discuss their experiences during and after the war.
Director: Shôhei Imamura
Votes: 72
44. The Pirates of Buban (1972 TV Movie)
46 min | Documentary
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Kô Nishimura, Shôichi Ozawa, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Kazuo Kitamura
Votes: 74
45. Muhomatsu Returns Home (1973 TV Movie)
48 min | Documentary
Three years after his first two documentaries on these soldiers who did not return, Imamura invites one of the interviewees, settled in Thailand, to return to Japan.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Fujiko Fujita, Fujio Fujita, Matsuyoshi Fujita, Michiko Hamaguchi
Votes: 68
46. Karayuki-san (1975)
70 min | Documentary
Director Shôhei Imamura interviews Kikuyo Zendo, a 73 year-old Japanese woman who was trafficked in 1921 to work as a prostitute in Malaysia. She discusses her sex work career and marriages... See full summary »
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Kurahachi Fukuda, Tora Hirano, Shôhei Imamura, Shôhei Nagao
Votes: 127
47. Goddo supiido yuu! Burakku emparaa (1976)
90 min | Documentary
The 1970s in Japan saw the rise of motorcycle gangs, which drew the interest of the media. The movie follows a member of the "Black Emperors" gang and his interaction with his parents after he gets in trouble with the police.
Director: Mitsuo Yanagimachi
Votes: 365
48. Shûji Terayama & Shuntarô Tanikawa Video Letter (1983 Video)
74 min | Documentary, Biography, Fantasy
This remarkable compilation follows an exchange of video letters that took place between Shuji Terayama and Shuntaro Tanikawa in the months immediately preceding Terayama's death. It can be... See full summary »
Directors: Shuntarô Tanikawa, Shûji Terayama | Stars: Shuntarô Tanikawa, Shûji Terayama
Votes: 58
49. The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987)
Not Rated | 122 min | Documentary
A documentary following Kenzo Okuzaki, a 62-year-old WW2 veteran notorious for his protests against Emperor Hirohito, as he tries to expose the needless executions of two Japanese soldiers during the war.
Director: Kazuo Hara | Stars: Kenzo Okuzaki, Riichi Aikawa, Masaichi Hamaguchi, Toshio Hara
Votes: 2,125
50. Magino Village: A Tale (1987)
222 min | Documentary, Drama
The movie compiles footage taken by Ogawa Production for a period of more than ten years after the collective moved to Magino village. Unique to this film are fictional reenactments of the ... See full summary »
Director: Shinsuke Ogawa | Stars: Tatsumi Hijikata, Junko Miyashita, Takahiro Tamura, Chôichirô Kawarasaki
Votes: 64
51. Ni tsutsumarete (1992)
40 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
In this autobiographical documentary, filmmaker Naomi Kawase seeks to reach her mother and father who abandoned her at birth.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Naomi Kawase, Uno Kawase, Kiyonobu Yamashiro
Votes: 238
52. Kya ka ra ba a (2001)
50 min | Documentary, Biography
Kawase tries to come to terms with her late father, whom she never knew when growing up, and contemplates getting a tattoo like his.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Naomi Kawase, Uno Kawase, Kiyonobu Yamashiro
Votes: 127
53. The Weald (1997)
73 min | Documentary
The elderly people living in the forest areas of the Yoshino Mountains and the village of Nishi-Yoshino are resilient loners. Kawase records them in their daily activities, revealing their ... See full summary »
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Masayuki Hatakeyama, Hirotsugu Inji, Hidemitsu Ishiyama, Masaharu Izumi
Votes: 36
54. A Dedicated Life (1994)
Not Rated | 157 min | Documentary, Biography
An intimate portrait of the last years in the life of eccentric novelist Mitsuharu Inoue.
Director: Kazuo Hara | Stars: Mitsuharu Inoue, Yutaka Haniya, Tetsu Hijikata, Ikuko Inoue
Votes: 112
56. Self and Others (2001)
54 min | Documentary
Gocho Shigeo died in 1983 at the age of 36. He left three books of photography, one entitled Self and Others. It was a series of portraits of ordinary people around him, nothing flashy or ... See full summary »
Director: Makoto Satô | Stars: Shigeo Gocho, Hidetoshi Nishijima
Votes: 44
58. Atarashî kamisama (1999)
99 min | Comedy, Documentary
Karin and her "comrade" Ito have started a band, playing nationalist punk music. Left-wing filmmaker TSUCHIYA decides to give Karin a video camera to film herself and her daily life. Camera... See full summary »
Director: Yutaka Tsuchiya | Stars: Karin Amemiya, Hidehito Itô, Yutaka Tsuchiya
Votes: 53
59. Peep 'TV' Show (2004)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
In Tokyo, a Goth girl and an Internet voyeur connect in the post 9-11 world of surveillance and paranoia.
Director: Yutaka Tsuchiya | Stars: Shiori Gechov, Takayuki Hasegawa
Votes: 105
60. Oka ni agatta gunkan (2007)
95 min | Documentary, War
Director: Yasuhiro Yamamoto | Stars: Kaneto Shindô, Shinobu Ôtake, Ippei Kanie, Ken'ichi Takitô
Votes: 10
61. Sennan Asbestos Disaster (2016)
215 min | Documentary
Ten years in the making, Kazu Hara's three-and-a-half-hour-long epic is a longitudinal study of asbestos victims demanding reparations from a heartless state.
Director: Kazuo Hara
Votes: 36
62. Tsukiji Wonderland (2016)
111 min | Documentary
Through the lives of professionals working at Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo, the film portrays how Tsukiji has been the center of fish culinary culture and helped Japanese food culture to flourish as we know it today.
Director: Naotarô Endô
Votes: 511
63. Inland Sea (2018)
Not Rated | 122 min | Documentary
Forsaken by the era of modernization of post-war Japan, Ushimado, a town so beloved by film director Shohei Imamura that he set two of his films there ("Black Rain", "Dr. Akagi"), is ... See full summary »
Director: Kazuhiro Sôda | Stars: Waichiro Murata, Kumiko Komiyama, Kiyoko Kashiwagi
Votes: 261
64. Puisi Tak Terkuburkan (2000)
90 min | Documentary, Drama
Tells the true story of the didong (a style of ballad) poet Ibrahim Kadir. He was in prison and was present during the mass killings of an estimated 500,000 suspected communists when ... See full summary »
Director: Garin Nugroho | Stars: Ibrahim Kadir, Berliana Febryanti, José Rizal Manua, Ella Gayo
Votes: 41
65. De stand van de zon (2001)
94 min | Documentary
The documentary is the start of a trilogy and follows the family Sjamsuddin, existing of three generations in the slums of Jakarta Indonesia.
Director: Leonard Retel Helmrich
Votes: 105
66. The House Is Black (1963)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness", of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.
Director: Forugh Farrokhzad | Stars: Forugh Farrokhzad, Ebrahim Golestan, Hossein Mansouri
Votes: 5,564
67. Fellow Citizen (1983)
48 min | Documentary
In this documentary a citizen is trying in a street of Tehran to control the traffic and not let people to break the law which cause them to react differently and lead to funny situations.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Votes: 245
68. First Graders (1984)
85 min | Documentary
A concealed camera follows a group of first graders during their day at school.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Star: Mohammad Dadras
Votes: 393
69. Homework (1989)
86 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama
In this documentary, Kiarostami asks a number of students about their school homework. The answers of some children shows the darker side of this method of education.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Babak Ahmadpoor, Farhang Akhavan, Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh, Abbas Kiarostami
Votes: 1,917
70. Images from the Ghajar Dynasty (1993)
18 min | Documentary, Short, History
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Votes: 112
71. Divorce Iranian Style (1998)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary
A documentary about real divorce cases in Iran's tribunals.
Directors: Kim Longinotto, Ziba Mir-Hosseini
Votes: 554
72. Afghan Alphabet (2002)
45 min | Documentary
Documentary showing the life of children of the Afghan villages bordering Iran, and how their life and culture were affected by Taliban regime.
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Ghafour Barahouyi, Maryam Ozbak, Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Votes: 302
73. Menq (1969)
27 min | Documentary, Short
Monumental picture exploring the identity and fate of the Armenian nation.
Director: Artavazd Peleshian
Votes: 460
74. Dzveli qartuli simgera (1969)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Under the premise of documenting for the sake of preservation the various forms of Georgian religious chanting, a distinct kind of sonorous psalmody passed over from generation to ... See full summary »
Director: Otar Iosseliani
Votes: 170
75. Turumba (1981)
95 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Kadu, a boy from Pakil, Laguna, experiences the dissolution of tradition as it gives way to capitalism in the form of Madame, a foreigner who initially came to their village as a customer during the Festival of Turumba.
Director: Kidlat Tahimik | Stars: Homer Abiad, Iñigo Vito, Maria Pehipol, Patricio Abari
Votes: 107
76. No pongso do tedted no mondo: Ang isla sa dulo ng mundo (2005)
105 min | Documentary, Drama
Martin travels to Itbayat island, of the Batan group, on the far north of the Phillipines, to record the customs of its inhabitants and their life away from modern civilization. Itbayat is ... See full summary »
Director: Raya Martin | Stars: Advencula Alcantara, Leon Alcantara, Maria Alcantara, Vicente Cano
Votes: 31
77. An Investigation on the Night That Won't Forget (2012)
Not Rated | 70 min | Documentary
Erwin Romulo, the best friend of the late film critic Alexis Tioseco, recalls the events after the critic and his girlfriend Nika Bohinc's murder during a buglary in their home in Quezon ... See full summary »
Director: Lav Diaz | Stars: Hazel Orencio, Erwin Romulo
Votes: 113
78. Storm Children: Book One (2014)
Not Rated | 143 min | Documentary
On 8 November 2013, the city Tacloban on Leyte Island, Philippines, was largely destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan, causing the death of 6,201 people.
Director: Lav Diaz
Votes: 209
79. Samurai Castle (2017)
Not Rated | 51 min | Documentary
Samurai Castles The Kumamoto Castle from the 17th century was heavily damaged by a series of powerful earthquakes, but the oldest sections of stonewalls miraculously survived and avoided ... See full summary »
Star: Satoshi Suzuki
Votes: 44
80. Yama: Attack to Attack (1985)
110 min | Documentary
Documenting the conditions of day laborers in San'ya.
Directors: Mitsuo Sato, Kyoichi Yamaoka | Star: Motoharu Jônouchi
Votes: 22
81. Nishijin (1961)
25 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary about traditional weavers of Nishijin.
Director: Toshio Matsumoto | Stars: Hideo Kanze, Takeshi Kusaka
Votes: 102
82. Inochi: Sôfû no chôkoku (1962)
17 min | Documentary, Short
Sculptor Sofu Teshigahara, father of filmmaker Hiroshi Teshigahara, prepares for an exhibition.
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | Star: Sofu Teshigahara
Votes: 108
83. Ishi no uta (1963 TV Movie)
24 min | Documentary
While extracting and polishing their blocks of stone, stonecutters used to say "the stone is coming to life". This paradox provided Matsumoto with the best metaphor for what making a film is all about.
Director: Toshio Matsumoto
Votes: 96
84. Landscaping (2016)
60 min | Documentary
As Taipei's house price-to-income (PTI) ratio has topped the world, Taiwanese people may work hard all their lives but still can't afford a costly apartment. Caught up in this money game of... See full summary »
Director: Li-Shao Lee
85. Oxhide (2005)
Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary, Drama
Daily life in an impossibly cramped Beijing apartment takes on epic proportions in this, intimate portrait, with unprecedented access, of a working-class Chinese family.
Director: Jiayin Liu | Stars: Huifen Jia, Jiayin Liu, Zaiping Liu
Votes: 269
86. Oxhide II (2009)
132 min | Documentary, Drama
The director shows herself and her parents making dumplings in their apartment with nine fixed camera positions, with which she revolves around the kitchen table.
Director: Jiayin Liu | Stars: Huifen Jia, Jiayin Liu, Zaiping Liu
Votes: 148
87. Dong (2006)
Not Rated | 66 min | Documentary, Drama
China's greatest living filmmaker Jia Zhangke (Platform, The World) travels with acclaimed painter Liu Xiaodong from China to Thailand as they meet everyday workers in the throes of social ... See full summary »
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Xiaodong Liu, Sanming Han
Votes: 422
88. Masters in Forbidden City (2016)
84 min | Documentary
After 5 years of preliminary research , 4 months of uninterrupted documentary photography, it entries into the the ancient imperial palace with young perspective, records and reveals the ... See full summary »
Votes: 131
89. Words on Water (2002)
84 min | Documentary
"Shasan valo, sun lo aaj - Hamare gaon mein hamaara raaj" (Listen to us, you who rule - our villages, we control). A boat carrying that cargo of defiance begins an urgent journey through ... See full summary »
Director: Sanjay Kak
Votes: 7
90. Tatakau heitai (1939)
65 min | Documentary, War
In the middle of 1938, Kamei Fumio and his film crew got themselves attached to an infantry regiment which they followed around through China for about four months, filming their marching ... See full summary »
Director: Fumio Kamei
Votes: 38
91. Al hayatt al yawmiyah fi quariah suriyah (1976)
80 min | Documentary
A documentary about the impact of newly introduced political reforms on a rural village in Syria - a place plagued with tribalism, ignorance and evil.
Director: Omar Amiralay
Votes: 100
92. In Search of the Unreturned Soldiers in Malaysia (1970 TV Movie)
47 min | Documentary
The searching of un-return japanese soldier in Malaysia by Imamura Shohei with the help from local people.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Star: Shôhei Imamura
Votes: 81
94. Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (1974)
Not Rated | 98 min | Documentary
In this uncomfortably intimate film, documentary filmmaker Kazuo Hara visits his ex-girlfriend Miyuki and records her new relationships.
Director: Kazuo Hara | Stars: Kazuo Hara, Miyuki Takeda, Sachiko Kobayashi
Votes: 402
95. Jiang Hu: Life on the Road (1999)
150 min | Documentary
A documentary of the Yuanda Song and Dance Tent Show, a wandering troupe from the countryside of Henan Province that is on the road all four seasons of the year.
Director: Wenguang Wu
Votes: 18
96. Safranbolu'da zaman (1977)
40 min | Documentary, Short
In 1976, Suha Arin was a tutor at the faculty of Social Sciences of Ankara University at the Press and Publishing Department (today's Communication Faculty). Like many of his films, the ... See full summary »
Director: Suha Arin
Votes: 50
97. People's Republic of Desire (2018)
95 min | Documentary
Two live streamers seek fame, fortune and human connection in China's digital idol-making universe, ultimately finding the same promises and perils online as in their real lives. Winner of Grand Jury Award (Documentary) at 2018 SXSW.
Director: Hao Wu
Votes: 510 | Gross: $0.02M
98. Red Ant Dream (2013)
120 min | Documentary
'Let us declare that the state of war does exist and shall exist', the revolutionary patriot had said almost a hundred years ago, and that forewarning travels into India's present, as armed... See full summary »
Director: Sanjay Kak
Votes: 28
99. The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms (1977)
42 min | Documentary, Short
Haneda's first independent film, a project she honed over several years, is a paean to a millenary cherry tree that can be found in the Neo village in the Gifu prefecture. The film deals ... See full summary »
Director: Sumiko Haneda
Votes: 21
100. Tudzhi (1964)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary of the Rustavi Metal Works, in the country of Georgia.
Director: Otar Iosseliani
Votes: 151
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