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 dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

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

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

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

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

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock F...

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

Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. T...

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

Over several decades throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping ris...

One day a puppy comes to the house of Akari, who has just turned twelve, and was trying hard to act ...

British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the be...

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his b...

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overt...

An Iranian boy befriends an old Japanese woman at a graveyard in Tokyo.

Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to lo...