The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him before he dies.
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...
Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. T...
Rei Kiriyama is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi pla...
A Tokyo college student is attacked by a ghoul, a super-powered human who feeds on human flesh. He s...
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
Rosa is a young rebel girl who lives with her grandmother and her uncle in a remote part of Calabria...
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...
An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a you...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
One day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Juk...
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigat...
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...
A serial-murderer is on the loose who just so happens to also be removing the hearts of his victims ...
In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassi...
Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world g...
Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucr...
A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the c...
The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this cele...