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...

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

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

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

The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escap...

Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story...

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

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

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

A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his fat...

A young fighter named Kham must go to Australia to retrieve his stolen elephant. With the help of a ...

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

Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster dau...

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...

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

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...

The ever versatile Kazuki Kitamura stars as masterless samurai Kyutaro Madarame, a feared swordsman ...

Sawa Yamagishi worked as a nursing-care helper. The family for an old man asked Sawa to sleep with h...

Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife fr...

Maharaja Gemunu is based on the odyssey of King Gemunu (ruler of Sri Lanka 161–137 BC) who is renown...