Hidejirō is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tries to take over the company and kills their boss, Hidejirō must choose between his promise of non-violence and his yakuza code of revenge...

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

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

Legendary singer Claire Emery flies to Japan for a final sold-out concert. But when the show ends, s...

A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary hous...

Satoru, a wheelchair-bound elementary student, locks himself away from the outside world after his m...

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

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 ...

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...

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 Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where ...

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

In a once-scenic village now dominated by a vast trash disposal site, a young man yearns to break fr...

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals....

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mot...

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

Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his...

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by...

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigat...