Father of nine children cannot find a job. Despite their aspirations, the children are encouraged by both parents to hold down menial jobs and contribute to the family expenses.

Tatsuya Nakadai, the world’s greatest living actor, returns to the screen in a brilliant adaptation ...

A photographer on a trip to Japan meets a fellow American woman and they quickly fall in love. Howev...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different t...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexual...

Inspired by true events, the story begins with Japanese rugby officials dwelling on a humiliating an...

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...

President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the mil...

In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redund...

An advertising man is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...

Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Em...

Kaiji Ito moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with...

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a...

Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer...

Mirai Suzuki (Yuko Oshima) becomes responsible for her mother's debt which is owed to loan shark Kao...

Set during World War II, the film follows a young brother and sister as they attempt to survive the ...