In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of Hokkaido. These people once supported the now displaced Samurais of the older days. After two years, over 500 of them settled in their new land under the leadership of Hideaki, husband of Shino. However, as crops fail he is to go to Sapporo to learn new techniques of farming, leaving his wife and daughter for 5 years. All this time, the new community is constantly watched by the government which choose to again uproot them from their new homes.

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

Keizo Tsujiguchi believes his wife Natsue was having an extramarital affair when their child was kid...

When a civil war threatens to break out, two geishas flee from their village with aristocrats. Durin...

Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the ...

First business trip away from Tokyo in a while

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A dramatized account of Denmark's first women's rights activist, Mathilde Fibiger. Based on letters ...

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Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family ...

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Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified position...

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Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who m...

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