The 31st NHK Asadora Drama is Oshin. Oshin tells the story of a girl born in a very poor rural family in Japan, who through hard work and perseverance eventually triumphs over pain and adversity to achieve fame and success. Broadcast in the early 1980s when Japan had finally cast off the legacy of the post-war years and the Japanese were beginning to reap the benefits of economic development, the aim of the story was to recall the hardships the older generation had endured in order to pave the way for their children to enjoy their more affluent lifestyle. Viewers were drawn to the suffering of the main character Oshin - and then drew similarities between her story and their own home lives.Some Japanese worried that showing Oshin abroad would give the country a bad profile - and would even be shameful because it showed the seldom glimpsed, poor, unequal side of Japan. In the event, the reverse proved true. Oshin gave viewers outside Japan - whose only image of Japan was formed by Japanese cars or electric goods, or through bitter memories of Japanese treatment during World War II - a far better understanding of the modern Japan and its people.
At 14 best friends Robb Reiner and Lips made a pact to rock together forever. Their band Anvil hailed as the demi-gods of Canadian metal influenced a musical generation that includes Metallica Slayer and Anthrax despite never hitting the big time. Following a calamitous European tour Lips and Robb now in their fifties set off to record their 13th album in one last attempt to fulfill...
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Gordon McLeod is the manager of a second tier Scottish football team. Faced with pressure from his American owner he is forced to bring on a marquee player to improve the fortunes of the team and prevents its being moved from the fiercely loyal town its been for a century. Along the way McLeod must battle his own demons including long-standing tiffs with both his daughter and a former...
After being accused of crimes he did not commit a lonely circus performer exacts his revenge on those who unjustly condemned him. The act sparks something inside of him which he cannot stop and now years later his inner-demons have truly surfaced. Part urban legend part tabloid sensationalism... he is now an unstoppable murderous juggernaut fueled only by...
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors including Ken Russell Jean-Luc Godard Robert Altman Bruce Beresford and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound Vivaldi Bach Wagner and is an interpretation of the particular...
A group of talented but financially struggling B-Boys join an underground fighting ring in Downtown Los Angeles that uses Hip-Hop music and Break dancing to battle for money. To save the life of one of their friends father the B-Boys form a strong bond. They fight for each other for their families and for a better...
Jenna Renee Ian and Michael arrive at a lakeside cabin owned by Ians uncle Wade. Intending to enjoy a carefree weekend instead three of them become locked in the hot sauna. First they think its Michael playing jokes on them but soon realize that help is not coming and they must find a way out before the heat kills them. As the heat rises they are pushed to their physical and psychological...
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