Movies and TvShows featuring "traditional-culture" theme.
Daniel accompanies his mentor, Mr. Miyagi, to his ancestral home in Okinawa where he must confront his biggest challenge yet.
A stubborn girl on a mysterious island, her dreams of becoming a martial artist, and her complicated love story.
Jao Sua Song leads the Five Dragon Guild, but family chaos brews. Eldest son Thian faces pressure to inherit power while battling forbidden love.
Set in 1960s Java, A female Javanese Traditional Kamasutra Guru involves in a plot of revenge for her ex-lover who left her behind in the past by seducing her ex lover's son during his pre-wedding sexual study period.
On the shores of Jeju Island, a fierce group of South Korean divers fight to save their vanishing culture from looming threats.
Yu Jae-seok, Lee Kwang-soo and Kim Yeon-koung travel all over Korea to learn from the best traditional masters in a bid to become the No. 1 Apprentice.
A 15-year-old boy goes on a hiking trip with his estranged grandfather, and overcomes the grief of losing his parents on a mountain above the clouds.
In the early 1900s, a young girl falls in love with a gypsy amidst a backdrop of ethnic minority discrimination. Their tragic romance is met with challenges as they navigate through a world of theft and hardship. The story is told through captivating musical numbers and explores themes of love, loss, and cultural struggles.
ciao Aracà (2019) is an observational documentary that takes viewers on a journey through the quiet and picturesque village life in rural Italy. The film explores the local agriculture and winegrowing practices, highlighting the challenges faced by these traditional communities in the face of globalization and rural depopulation. With stunning landscape photography and a focus on the olive harvesting season, this documentary offers a serene portrayal of a disappearing way of life.
The Wound (2017) is a powerful drama that explores the themes of sexuality, repression, and masculinity through the story of a young gay man navigating an initiation ritual in South Africa. In an isolated hut, young Xolani acts as a mentor to Kwanda, a city boy participating in the ritual for the first time. As the two form a bond, Xolani's repressed desires come to light, leading to a confrontation with cultural traditions and personal identity.
A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated journey of immense beauty and brutality. A kaleidoscopic essay on how magic and madness have linked human beings to nature since the beginning of time.
A documentary about the makers of saké, traditional Japanese rice wine, and the challenges they face in preserving their craft amidst modern societal demands.
In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute, and becomes entangled in a love triangle. A mystery emerges involving two portraits and the sudden disappearance of the artist Sharaku. Helmed by Cannes-selected director Tatsuji Yamazaki, the film employs kabuki-inspired sequences and stylised sets.
"Monday's Girls" explores the conflict between modern individualism and traditional communities in today's Africa through the eyes of two young Waikiriki women from the Niger delta. Although both come from leading families in the same large island town, Florence looks at the iria women's initiation ceremony as an honor, while Azikiwe, who has lived in the city for ten years, sees it as an indignity.
In the Faroe Islands, hundreds of pilot whales are slaughtered each year in a hunt known as the “Grind.” This gruesome tradition has drawn outrage from activists, most notably the international conservation group Sea Shepherd, who routinely sail to the islands to try to block whaling boats. Yet the Faroese are equally determined to maintain their tradition, defending the practice as more sustainable and less cruel than getting meat from slaughterhouses. Director Vincent Kelner spends time with both Faroese hunters and Sea Shepherd crusaders, building to a nuanced look at a disturbing event with much larger implications for the way humans relate to other creatures.
A New Yorker journeys to the jungle in the Darien Gap of Panama to reconnect with an indigenous tribe he met and photographed 20 years ago. Their reunion highlights the profound power of photos and the human connection that transcends cultural barriers.
After committing a crime for which he is likely to be jailed, a Yolngu teenager convinces two of his childhood friends to join him on a journey from North East Arnhem Land to Darwin to seek help from a tribal leader.
The documentary "Caixa D'água: Qui-lombo is this?" It reports, through testimonies from former residents and photographic collections, the importance in the cultural and historical scope of the Getúlio Vargas neighborhood located in Aracaju, capital of Sergipe. Emphasis is placed on black culture and the presence of black slaves and their descendants, with the rescue of issues related to their origin, orality, geographical location and awareness of their racial identity, showing that, although this community exists in an urban area, it still maintains many aspects of the quilombo life of the former black slaves in Brazil.
