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.

Summoned by his dying father, Miyagi returns to his homeland of Okinawa, with Daniel, after a 40-yea...

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...

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...
A boy living in underdeveloped Welsh village hopes for a better time of his homeland when seeing the...

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...

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

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 ...

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. ...

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

How the Japanese process American pop culture and make it their own -- a mind-bending odyssey throug...

Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continui...

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

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 ...

A journey into the intricacies of mixed-race Japanese and their multicultural experiences in modern ...