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.
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. ...
Japanese cyber youth cultures have developed through the imaginative and novel use of technology. Un...
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...
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...
A pseudo-documentary, “Samarang” tells the story of lowly Ahmang (Captain A.V. Cockle) and his socia...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in tran...
Can a woman love two men at the same time? Set against the backdrop of Kyoto's rich history, this st...
A court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. Hope appea...
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...
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...
Mika works as a nurse by day; by night she entertains covetous men at a girls' bar. Shinji is blind ...
Floating Vessel (源氏物語 浮舟 , Ukifune) is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Dr...
A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.
Three men embark on a journey in search of meaning and happiness in the autumn of their lives: Bob s...