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.

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...
"Heart of the Country" is the story of Shinichi Yasutomo, the extraordinary principal of a rural ele...

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...

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

William McKay’s successful New York executive career is in ruins after a shocking betrayal. Called b...

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 ...

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...

During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct...
20 minute music documentary shot in two days of November 1984 in, and around the outskirts of, Tokyo...

Yumi Fukuzawa is an ordinary first year student at Lillian Girls' Academy. By chance Yumi meets seco...

Shuji Mimura works as a broadcast writer. He learns that he doesn't have much time left to live. He ...

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. ...

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are ...