Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pretty, young Reiko is the new dancer in an infamous theatre troupe, and her fellow performers try to protect her virtue in a land of vice. Meanwhile, an ageing actor wants to be a hero off stage as well as on, and the troupe matriarch Marie has to keep them all together.

Mika works as a nurse by day; by night she entertains covetous men at a girls' bar. Shinji is blind ...

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlockin...

Searching for escape in Tokyo's back alleys, a haunted English teacher explores love and lust with a...

A mysterious woman, known as Madame M, kidnaps forty pre-teen girls and transports them to a remote ...

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret ...

Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwa...

A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship...

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

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges f...

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to v...

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...

Kei works at a cocktail bar, while Ai works as a model. Fearing she'll be ostracized by society, Kei...

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe...

Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age dra...

An unhappy young woman from an abusive family is married off to a fearsome and chilly army commander...

An American actor in Tokyo struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Ja...

Would-be writer Ryunosuke Chagawa is still living across the street from Norifumi Suzuki and his aut...