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 boy living in underdeveloped Welsh village hopes for a better time of his homeland when seeing the...
"Heart of the Country" is the story of Shinichi Yasutomo, the extraordinary principal of a rural ele...

Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins ...

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. ...

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...

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

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

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

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

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

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

Two friends, both Indigenous fishermen, are driven to desperation by a dying sea. Their friendship b...

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...

The journey of two men wrestling with loss, suicide and their unexpected friendship that helps them ...

When Tadashi sees a girl from his school stood alone on the beach, he becomes determined to find out...

Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exi...

Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Ozu's charming film i...