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.

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 ...

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

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

A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his fat...

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges f...

Three people from a former theater club get back in touch for the first time in 20 years during the ...

A friendly wager on a family fishing trip to Emerald Isle years ago resulted in one boy’s dream come...

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

Before Tokugawa Yoshimune, known as the "Ravage Shogun", was the lord of the Kishu domain, before he...

A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.

Kakunoshin Yanagida was a samurai, forced to leave the Han due to a false accusation. He then lived ...

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shige...

In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculos...

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop f...

When his father flees from debt, carefree college student Osamu sees his life turn upside-down. Expe...

Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They...

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goe...

In the coldest waters surrounding Newfoundland's rugged Fogo Island, "people of the fish"—traditiona...