Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two young sons, whose names he has had tattooed on his back in penance, and locked in a sibling rivalry with his traditional but urbane younger brother who lives in Tokyo, Yukio has become an amphetamine-addicted loner at odds with his family, friends and colleagues.

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new...

Eli Johnson struggles through high school challenged by his self-loathing and the pressure to be "no...

When 15-year-old Magnea meets Stella, everything changes. Stella's no-holds-barred lifestyle drags t...

A young boy named Pelle falls in love with the drug addict Lena. Then he and his friend Proffen trie...

Sex, drugs and money are the cornerstones in the lives of these rootles young people living in a big...

The life of Dr. Sandeep Kapoor was turned upside down when he's implicated in the wrongful death tri...

Cliff receives an unusual 18th birthday gift from his younger sister — marijuana, alcohol, a subway ...

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She ...

The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social...

Delilah Miller is looking for an anchor in her life. She starts a romance with rock musician Ryland ...

Suffering from addiction and homelessness, Abigail wanders the city on a cold winter late afternoon,...

A stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York Ci...

François Naulet turns his bedroom into an island of drugs, loneliness and despair.

Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns...

A young woman is fired by her lover from her job in a bookstore and meets a trafficker she falls in ...

15-year-old Beni falls in love with Fögi, a singer in a Rock band. As Fögi seduces him, he is only w...

Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares...

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his ...

Artistic lovers, Viv and Jay, have become trapped in a vicious cycle of codependent heroin addictio...

A brilliant but impulsive young surgeon spirals into self-destruction after a painful breakup, strug...