Cinemaya's Greatest Asian Films

An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.

Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.

A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.

A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him.

The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.

Eight-year-old Ahmed has mistakenly taken his friend Mohammad's notebook. He wants to return it, or else his friend will be expelled from school. The boy determinedly sets out to find Mohammad's home in the neighbouring village.

This final installment in Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy follows Apu's life as an orphaned adult aspiring to be a writer.

A communist soldier travels to Shanbei to collect folk songs for propaganda while visiting a poor peasant family, giving hope to the teenage daughter in escaping an arranged marriage.

Following his father's death, a boy leaves home to study in Calcutta, while his mother must face a life alone.

The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s.

The semi-autobiographical film on director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's childhood and adolescence, when he was growing up in Taiwan, living through the deaths of his father, mother and grandmother.

The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.

A tragic social drama set in post war Japan about a lonely woman trying to find purpose and stability in a devastated Tokyo.

A story that follows the lives and interactions of two Buddhist monks living in South Korea.

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

Depicts the end days of a decadent zamindar (landlord) in Bengal, and his efforts to uphold his family prestige even when faced with economic adversity.

A lonely housewife finds her monotonous life altered when her childhood sweetheart returns to town.

A man (Abhi Bhattacharya) opposes the love between his sister and the orphan (Satindra Bhattacharya) they adopted years earlier.

Based on a true story, primarily on a conflict between two youth gangs, a 14-year-old boy's girlfriend conflicts with the head of one gang for an unclear reason, until finally the conflict comes to a violent climax.

A lady fugitive on the run from corrupt government officials is joined in her endeavors by an unambitious painter and skilled Buddhist monks.

Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.

Elsa saw the blessed Virgin Mary who had changed her life and caused a hysteria in a poor isolated village.

In 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.

When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army.