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).

In order to turn their lives around, three taxi drivers living at the bottom rung of society hatch a...

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...

During the 13th century, a small village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpath...

In 2012, Atsuya and his 2 childhood friends do something bad and run into an old general store. They...

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

Makoto Tanaka is 40-years-old and has remarried. His wife is Nanae and they care for 2 daughters fro...

A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary hous...

In central Tokyo, a young man, Sosuke, aspires to be a manga artist. His current work is about a bat...

A former couple remembers their most intimate days, only to part once again. A bittersweet love stor...

Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his au...

A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charge...

A deaf garbage collector happens upon a broken and discarded surfboard. The discovery plants in him ...

Chisato and Mahiro must pay four years of overdue fees or lose their membership in their assassin gu...

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

A life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she goes...

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expeditio...

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When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formi...

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