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.

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The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the ...

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

A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange fo...

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince hi...

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...

In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifel...

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

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...

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

In a small farming valley in Austria in the beginning of the 20th century a tyrannical farmer is fou...

Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm wit...

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...

War journalist Paul Prior returns to his New Zealand hometown after his father’s death, rekindling s...

A construction site is set up next to a colony of forest workers. Murgu, a worker on the constructio...