Top 100 Asian Drama

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

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

A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.

In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.

A hotel owner and landlord in a remote Turkish village deals with conflicts within his family and a tenant behind on his rent.

China in the 1920s. After her father's death, Songlian is forced to marry the wealthy Master Chen. With three wives already, each living in a separate house, there is fierce competition for his attention and the privileges that are gained.

A group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes.

Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.

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

In a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. An elderly woman is reaching close to her cut-off age during her last days with her family.

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

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

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

A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes.

Banned from making movies by the Iranian government, Jafar Panahi poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran.

In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces.

A housewife living under her tyrannical husband has her life stressfully turned upside down after getting raped by a burglar.

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

An Iranian man deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.

A young man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital romance.

An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.

A family chooses a match for their daughter Noriko, but she, surprisingly, has her own plans.

A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.

A family suffers from a major communication breakdown during their struggle to get through their hardships.