All Asian Movies ever nominated for Oscar

Lo stupro di una sposa e l'assassinio del marito samurai sono ricordati dal punto di vista di un bandito, della sposa, del fantasma del samurai e di un taglialegna.

Una storia di ambizione, famiglia, amore e guerra ambientata nel bel mezzo delle guerre civili giapponesi del sedicesimo secolo.

A samurai pursues a married lady-in-waiting.

Un villaggio di contadini sotto attacco da banditi assume sette samurai disoccupati affinché li difendano.

Presenta i primi anni di vita del leggendario guerriero Musashi Miyamoto; i suoi anni come aspirante guerriero, fuorilegge e infine vero samurai.

Nei giorni di chiusura della Guerra, quando un soldato giapponese guidato dalla coscienza non riesce a far arrendere i suoi connazionali a una forza travolgente, adotta lo stile di vita di un monaco buddista.

Primo film hindi candidato come miglior film straniero agli Oscar Mother India è una storia straziante sulle complessità dell'agricoltura rurale nell'India appena indipendente e sullo sfruttamento dei contadini da parte dei loro feudatari.

A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through three decades of bitter conflict which engulfs their children and those around them.

Two twin girls are separated at birth. One grows up in a loving family. The other one doesn't. They finally meet by complete accident on a town fair. No one ever told them about the other one so they begin familiarizing with each other.

Un entomologo in vacanza è intrappolato dagli abitanti di un villaggio locale a vivere con una donna il cui compito di vita è spalare la sabbia per loro.

The sharp, often hilarious satire that became the most successful film in Israeli history (until that time) is about new immigrants Sallah and his family, who are left in a shack near their promised apartment and are abandoned for months. A Yemenite Jewish family that was flown to Israel during "Operation Magic Carpet" - a clandestine operation that flew 49,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel the year after the state was formed - is forced to move to a government settlement camp. The patriarch of the family, portrayed by Chaim Topol, tries to make money and get better housing, in a country that can barely provide for its own and is in the midst absorbing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries.

Una raccolta di quattro racconti popolari giapponesi con temi soprannaturali.

Takamura, poet and sculptor, is married to Chieko, who also has artistic desires. However, she is becoming increasingly aware that she can not match her husband's work.

Various tales in the lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley.

One of Israel's most beloved films, this film centers around the policeman Azulai, who is as kind as he as inept.

The love of Nissim for his widowed sister-in-law, Rosa, in the Old City of Jerusalem at the turn of the century. Under a (very old) Jewish religious law, Nissim has the duty to marry his childless sister-in-law on the death of his brother.

A fatherless family immigrates to Israel from Egypt during the British Mandate period. The film traces the hardships the family suffers in the politically unstable country.

A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese women working in Asia outside of Japan during the first half of the 20th century. She worked in a Malaysian brothel called Sandakan 8.

La notte del 26 giugno 1976, un commando arabo-israeliano dirotta un aereo dell'Air France. Dopo una sosta in Libia l'aereo si ferma ad Entebbe. I terroristi liberano i passeggeri non ebrei.

Un piccolo ladro con un'assoluta somiglianza con un signore della guerra samurai viene assunto come sosia del signore. Quando il signore della guerra in seguito muore, il ladro è costretto a prendere le armi al suo posto.

In post-War Japan, a boy from a noodle store-owning family befriends a neighboring boy living in poverty.

In Israel's Central Prison, the security officer is corrupt, supplying drugs and stirring the hatred between Jewish and Arab prisoners to his advantage. Uri, in for 12 years for armed robbery, and Issan, in for 50 years for PLO violence, command the respect of their cells. When the Arabs are framed for the murder of a Jewish prisoner and a young inmate commits suicide rather than lie about what happened, Uri and Issan form an unlikely partnership, leading the security block on a strike. Prison officials try to break it. In the background are Uri's daughter and Issan's wife, women of beauty and passion who embody the distance from inside a cell to the outside.

Young Krishna struggles to survive among the drug dealers, pimps, and prostitutes in the back alleys and gutters of India.

In rural China, the young bride of a tyrannical owner of a silk-dyeing business finds temporary solace in the arms of her husband's nephew, but problems arise when she becomes pregnant.

Una giovane donna diviene la quarta moglie di un ricco signore e deve imparare a vivere rispettando le regole ferree e ad ambientarsi tra le tensioni all'interno dei membri della famiglia.