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. ...

A comedy of everyday life problems of a "temporary" teacher who leads a very "temporary" life. For t...

In the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, four Communist party special agents, after returning ...

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...

A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.

Japan blossomed into its Renaissance at approximately the same time as Europe. Unlike the West, it f...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

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...

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 ...

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

A documentary about the threat posed to New Zealand's Kaipara Harbour by rapacious commercial fishin...

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

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...