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.

In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much...

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

After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive privat...

When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer m...

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

The film follows the relationship between a mother and her son. In 1945, the mother played by Sayuri...

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In 1870s New York, spinster heiress Catherine Sloper is courted by the much younger, penniless Morri...

First business trip away from Tokyo in a while

Kenji, the eldest son of Masajiro, a wealthy moneylender, refuses to work in the family business and...

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

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband die...

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...

At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area o...

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

In the 1870s, a young Harvard dropout seeks his destiny out West by tying his fate to a team of buff...

In 1870 Friendship, Wisconsin, a small town of Scandinavian settlers still suffering the repercussio...

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

At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and...