Movies and TvShows featuring "traditional-costume" theme.

Miss Oyu is a film set in post-war Japan, where a young widow falls in love with her sister's husband. The story explores the complexities of love, tradition, and sacrifice in a society bound by restrictive norms and traditions.

Asahi Tojima (Nanase Nishino) is a first grade high school student. She is small and weak physically. Asahi Tojima decides to change herself. She enrolls in the naginata (Japanese blade) club at her school. She works hard with the other club members and targets the national competition.

Carmen is a drama film that tells the story of a passionate love triangle involving a dancer named Carmen, her jealous lover, and a married woman who becomes entangled in their affairs. Set against the backdrop of flamenco dancing in 1980s Spain, the film explores themes of obsession, manipulation, and tragic love.

Señor Martinez, a famous theater owner, visits a local café in Mexico because of its reputation for good food and to audition the famous dancer who performs there. Martinez tells the café owner that if the dancer is as good as he has heard, he will offer the dancer a contract to perform in his theater. The café's female singer hears about this and is determined that he won't leave the café without her.

War Dance (2007) is a heartwarming documentary that follows a group of children in a war-torn region of Uganda as they use music and dance to cope with their experiences and find hope in the midst of adversity. The film highlights the power of art to heal and bring communities together.

In early twentieth-century Brittany, two peasants marry, have a son, and live in traditional Breton ways: three generations under one roof, a division of labor between the sexes, elders' stories at night, politics and religion during their little free time. Times are hard: la Chienne du Monde drives some to suicide; Ankou (death) is close at hand. Pierre is born into this republican family, his lyric childhood interrupted by the outbreak of war and his father's conscription. He learns his catechism and, as a child of a Reds, also reveres school. His grandfather and father often put him on their shoulders, giving him a ride on the horse of pride.

A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga, a warrior princess.

A look at some sights in Olvera St. in Los Angeles, California.

If you would like to witness the forces of colonialism in brute action, Rithy Panh’s extraordinary new film provides the long view. A masterpiece of editing, the film assembles archival footage and antiqued title cards into a wordless recapturing of the Indochinese Empire, beginning with the early days of French occupation. In this prelapsarian age, everything is golden with promise. Ladies, in empire waist gowns and enormous hats, throw candies to local children. Great steamships carry French culture abroad, and the Tricolore flag flies on high.

It follows problems of Swaziland, a landlocked country in southern Africa. The film features Mswati III, the king of Swaziland, and his heiress and self claimed rapper Princess Sikhanyiso. It shows the angry populace and the country's problems such as a high HIV prevalence, comparing it with the daily life of Mswati III, Africa's last absolute monarch.

This travelogue emphasizes Copenhagen's harmonious residents and tone. We see well-known landmarks and get a quick history of some of them.

This Traveltalk short visits the ports of Algiers and Monaco in the Mediterranean.

Prior to her confirmation, Ingrid will be given a bunad (a traditional costume in Norway) by her grandparents. It will be a unique piece of clothing, made by bunad experts from around the country. Even the queen herself will be contributing to the making of the bunad.

Based on a true story that happened in Morocco at the beginning of The 40's.

A crowd passes by the camera.

We follow a wedding celebration in Auvergne, France.

Early 20th century film footage of Japan.

The trip of the French Resident General to the northwest and south of Tunisia in 1946