In the early 1200s, Dogen brought Chinese Zen philosophy to Japan, and established the Japanese Zen school of Buddhism. He taught that a person was capable of realizing Buddhahood within himself, by way of Zazen. Zazen is extended hours of sitting and meditating to achieve a state of “Mu” (nothingness, or empty existence).

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

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

An isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy livin...

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

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

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

The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. C...

Follows a group of female escorts who are living life as best they can.

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...

Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friend...

An epic drama about Nichiren's life. Nichiren was a Buddhist monk who lived for 60 years during the ...

Yashima is a woman who works as a plumber. She is also uncomfortable with her own sexuality. One day...

A love story situated in the Himalayas. A Buddhist monk can't choose between life and the way of the...

The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.

Two high school girls who are about to graduate also happen to be highly-skilled assassins. When the...

The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury as ...

The love story between an Australian woman and a Balinese dancer.

Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and n...

Falsely accused for cheating in a martial arts competition, two boyhood friends are banished from th...