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.
A daughter whose mother was killed and whose virginity was stolen by her stepfather sets a clever tr...
A teenage girl's accidental death incites a media frenzy and causes her harsh father to turn his rag...
Japan blossomed into its Renaissance at approximately the same time as Europe. Unlike the West, it f...
Summoned by his dying father, Miyagi returns to his homeland of Okinawa, with Daniel, after a 40-yea...
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsess...
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Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes f...
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic tar...
John Person tells the story of how he fell into his coveted job by describing the life of Anatole, t...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II...
Tokunaga is an unpopular comedian. He meets a senior comedian, Kamiya, who holds a strong faith in c...
In the late 16th century, after the death of Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi takes power. The age o...
Set in an academy for daughters of the rich and powerful, this murder mystery involves six girls wit...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...