At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area of low-class “untouchables,” leaving his hometown to serve as an elementary school teacher where he excels and is loved by his students. But he constantly struggles with the secret of his low-birth status and is disturbed by all of the discrimination levelled upon his class. It prevents him from pursuing a romance with Shiho, whom he meets at the temple where he resides, but who descends from a samurai family.

It was a pre-destined love and marriage for Sonoko and Tetsuo. They tied the knot and became husband...

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his di...

Ronia lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearb...

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to int...

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufr...

While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed literature professor finds herself unexpectedly at...

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tr...

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill be...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

Andy moves to New York to work in the fashion industry. Her boss is extremely demanding, cruel and w...

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...

A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religi...

A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book...

After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly tak...

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...

Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower the...

Despite their social differences Luise, called Pünktchen, a girl from rich parentage befriends Anton...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frigh...