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 future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to k...

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe...

Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, L...

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

Masato is a young ramen chef in Japan. When he finds his late mother's journal after the sudden deat...

Let cool, mysterious high school student Ms. Koizumi and her girlfriends show you around the authent...

In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridor...

Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, ...
A documentary film from New Hampshire Sea Grant following the stories of women in New Hampshire's tr...

Based on the historical figure of Nobutora, the father of the famous Warring States period general T...

Two broke sweethearts wander war-scarred Tokyo on a single Sunday, stretching 35 yen as they chase h...

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her w...

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slight...

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Kat...

1944, in the depths of World War II. Toyomatsu Shimizu is a completely typical barber from a remote ...

Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to lo...

A cursed dancer and a blind musician — both ostracized by society — become business partners and ins...

Legendary singer Claire Emery flies to Japan for a final sold-out concert. But when the show ends, s...

Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in tran...