Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan. Admiral Heihachiro Togo sends his fleet to confront the Russians, with results which stun both nations. Meanwhile, Major Genjiro Akashi makes secret negotiations with the Bolshevik revolutionaries in Russia, negotiations that have repercussions far beyond the conflict at hand.

Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed ...

At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and...

During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves...

From empire to ashes-Japan's rise, war, and reckoning. A gripping journey through ambition, conflict...

In central Tokyo, a young man, Sosuke, aspires to be a manga artist. His current work is about a bat...

The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin,...

A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. ...

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to k...

One samurai is ordered to kill another by their master in punishment.

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic exped...

When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formi...

An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealt...

A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Gui...

The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abus...

Actual footage by the United States Signal Corps of the landing and attack on Arawe Beach, Cape Glou...

Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and n...

Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon is a carefree 16th-centur...

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a b...

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....