A modern geisha travels through Japan trying to find a job as entertainer, and ends up by finding love and a job as ama, a pearl diver.

In the last fifty years the culture of Zen has spread far beyond Japan. Zen centers and zen retreats...

Two rogue vagrants make their living as "manure men", turning the waste from the tenement toilets in...

On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among...

Teenage Mutsuko comes to Tokyo for work but ends up at a repair shop. She befriends the owner's fami...

Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person ...

The Closing Ceremony of the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in the New National Stadium in Tokyo

Masa hires rental actress and aspiring dancer, Kanako, to pose as his fiancée to impress his estrang...

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...

A backstage and on-stage look at Nicki Minaj's career during the Pink Friday Tour, festivals, and mo...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...

The Southern Sea Otter was historically abundant along the California coastline until intense huntin...

Sea otters are once again in peril after being brought back from the brink of extinction. An unprece...

Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. ...

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...

Shibuya in Tokyo, a city that continues to change due to redevelopment. At a house in the corner of ...
The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.