Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They become fascinated with a deadly jellyfish.

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...

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...

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...

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...

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

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...

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

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlockin...

It's summer vacation, but two high schoolers have been instructed to clean the (empty) swimming pool...

In order to turn their lives around, three taxi drivers living at the bottom rung of society hatch a...

The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abus...

A mysterious woman, known as Madame M, kidnaps forty pre-teen girls and transports them to a remote ...

A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a trag...

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