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.
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the fines...
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall ...
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...
Satoshi Murayama, the shogi (Japanese chess) master known as the arch-rival of Yoshiharu Habu, the s...
On August 3rd, 1979, a Vietnamese refugee shoots and kills a white crab fisherman at the town docks ...
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
A family reunites after 15 years. They each have a story to tell as they have not forgotten what ha...
An old thief, Kuhei Sagiwara, used to visit his hometown at the foot of the Kurikara Pass in Kaga Pr...
Edo town thief called "Acrobatics boy" has been rampant in town, just that time, spy, Goro of Otaki ...
Heizo "The Demon" deals with an arson thief gang known as "Bungoro" the fire thief who leaves a call...
The Maclean brothers, Paul and Norman, live a relatively idyllic life in rural Montana, spending muc...
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
Joso (josō 女装) is a film collaboration combining anthropology and art film to explore the nature of ...
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 ...
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 Traveltalk visit to Japan starts with a look at the country's cherry blossom trees, tulips, and...
A documentary on the dark and brutal side of the Samurai warrior clans featuring the life of peasant...