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.

Akira, Takeshi, Yasu, and Shun are a gang of four close friends, all of whom were core members of th...

A young mouse named Fievel and his family decide to migrate to America, a "land without cats," at th...

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing ...

As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, ...

Japan blossomed into its Renaissance at approximately the same time as Europe. Unlike the West, it f...

The CIA hears of a KGB scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner, an age...

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

After finding out that her husband, Rudi, has a fatal illness, Trudi Angermeier arranges a trip to B...

A 100-year-old resident of a Lake Biwa nursing home dies mysteriously. Did a respirator keeping him ...

Goro is an archeologist, fascinated with the national treasure Gassho clay figure and remains from t...

In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the s...

The relationships among two pre-pubescent brothers and their estranged father are tested on a trip i...

When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without...

A Russian guitarist was enlisted in 1984 in the Afghan war. Imprisoned, he will meet an Afghan music...

Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Cha...

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.