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).

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

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

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...

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

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

A view of the religious tensions between Muslims and Buddhist through the portrait of the Buddhist m...

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

A serial-murderer is on the loose who just so happens to also be removing the hearts of his victims ...

In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassi...

Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world g...

Kaoru Fukazawa is a manga artist. His manga series was published for eight years, but has now finish...

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigat...

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...

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

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

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

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mot...

In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days...