A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.

At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area o...

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

"The House of Pillory" - a place where the enemy women captured during wartime were imprisoned so th...

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...

During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct...

Shindo Yuya quits his job and joins the agriculture and forestry division of Takasaki City in Gunma ...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai who seek vengeance against the man who caused their ma...

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined...

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...

This is the story of Kaori Kawabuchi, a samurai sword performer, singer and motion capture actor. An...

Mark, a cameraman who aspires to work on serious Hollywood films but can only find work making porno...

Two high school girls who are about to graduate also happen to be highly-skilled assassins. When the...

After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering...

By mid-1945, Hitler is dead and the war has ended in Europe. Halfway around the world, however, the ...

A man witnesses a fatal traffic accident on his way home from work, and the victim is clearly killed...

Summoned by his dying father, Miyagi returns to his homeland of Okinawa, with Daniel, after a 40-yea...

It's summer vacation, but two high schoolers have been instructed to clean the (empty) swimming pool...