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.
An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to k...
A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...
In the Stockholm archipelago in the 1880s, Carlsson move out to an isolated farmstead to help the wi...
Shinohara, a young bodybuilder, joins a para-military sect in northern Japan. His instructor, Takiz...
Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant ...
After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcohol...
In the aftermath of an emotional shock, a ruthless high-class manager faces her own abyss, becomes p...
A year after losing her mother, a young girl learns that she must journey across Japan to the annual...
A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism...
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing ...
A serial-murderer is on the loose who just so happens to also be removing the hearts of his victims ...
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsess...
In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassi...
Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world g...
Jun is a girl whose words have been sealed away so that she cannot hurt anyone with them. But, one ...
Hibiki Shimada, a normal 17-year-old high-school student, still does not know how to fall in love—al...
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...