Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer's rain and humidity, bakes her own bread, grows hothouse tomatoes and tills the fields. During autumn, the time for pickling and preserving fish and sweet potatoes, Ichiko begins reaping rice and recalls her departure five years before.

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austria...

On the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple's love is threatened when the tribal chief ...
A boy living in underdeveloped Welsh village hopes for a better time of his homeland when seeing the...

A poetic story about the first love of the village girl Natasha, loyal to the memory of the deceased...

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

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

With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks ...

Summer is ending, it's time for silaging in the peaceful Breton countryside. While farmers are harve...

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country ...

During China's Warring States period, a district prefect arrives at the palace of Qin Shi Huang, cla...

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

Kresten, newly wed, is on the threshold of a great career success in his father-in-law’s company. Bu...

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

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

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

After the entire flora goes extinct, ecologist Lowell maintains a greenhouse aboard a space station ...

A mother searches for her missing son after a devastating calamity, only to realize that she has die...

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In orde...