Tagged: mood: tearjerker

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Notebook, The

Nicholas Sparks and the cheesy movie poster doesn’t help, but guess what? The Notebook was actually a pretty darn good romance.

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Flowers of War, The

A group of women make a difficult choice in order to save a group of girls during the Japanese occupation of Nanjing.

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Chouchou-san

Chouchou-san is Japan’s NHK’s take on the famous Puccini’s opera, Madame Butterfly.

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Better Life (2011), A

Carlos hasn’t asked much from life as an illegal immigrant in the United States, except for a quiet subsistence as a gardener for the wealthier people of L.A. and a better future for his son Luis.

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Okuribito

Okuribito tells the story of Daigo Kobayashi, an average cellist who’s lost his job and is forced to go back to his hometown where he finds a job as a traditional funeral “artist” to prepare the dead for their “departure.”

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Auld Lang Syne

Auld Lang Syne follows two Korean men that used to be lovers as they meet once again by chance.

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Annyong, Sayonara

Annyong, Sayonara is a documentary following Ms. Heeja Lee, a Korean woman that lost her father when she was only 13 months old, back when her father was drafted by the Japanese army.

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Mother (Jdrama)

Mother is an 11-episode Japanese drama that deals with various issues such as child adoption, foster parents, parent abuse, and the more taboo subject of the spousal abuse.