Late 18th century, Tohoku. An outcast girl, Rin lives in a village suffering from famine. She draws strength from Mt. Hayachine, where the spirits of humans ascend after passing.
37 year old sales manager Iwatsu is so caught up in work, he's unable to truly live his life. One ni...
Ai's mother sends her to live with a cult commune, where she remains for seven years. After the cult...
The referendum whether nuclear power plants should be banned has been held in Japan. People must dec...
Deeply hurt by his wife's adultery, a man leaves her and his son to live high up alone in the mounta...
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals....
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mot...
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to k...
As she tries to cope with the changes in Yugoslav rural life brought about by increasing modernizati...
In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds c...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by...
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigat...
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...
A story about how Kuboshima Seiichiro overcomes various difficulties to open Mugonkan, an art museum...
The film tells about the life of the former vassal of the Ako clan - Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane.
One woman's journey for self-discovery and turns into a harrowing tale of survival.
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...