The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
Stuck in a decollate life and a dead marriage a father goes to any lengths to continue to dream a li...

Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Ni...

In the last few days of the Warsaw Uprising during World War II, a modest group of Resistance member...

A descendant of an ancient tea tribe heads to Taiwan to look for the legendary black tea to break th...

With her husband terminally ill, a wife becomes the target of her husband's friend who wants her mon...

An adaptation of Mohamed Hussein Heikal novel. At the beginning of the 20th century, Zainab, a peasa...

When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a ...

A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the ...

Manos, a Greek school teacher, is forced to travel to Melbourne, Australia when the man who murdered...

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York ...

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...

Set in modern upper-crust Manhattan, an exploration of love and commitment as seen through the eyes ...

The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a cl...

A teacher conducts an experiment in an American high school where students learn how easy it is to b...

Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there ...

A divorced farmer takes in his troubled teenage daughter for the summer, a summer which changes the ...

When a priest hears a murderer’s confession, he becomes bound by his vow of silence—even as circumst...

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's ...

Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but id...

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop f...