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.

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. Wit...

An average, everyday metalworker and volunteer firefighter content in his marriage to his childhood ...

In the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, four Communist party special agents, after returning ...

What is life like at a Japanese university? Four "friends" drift in and out of their friendships and...

The Battle of Peleliu was fought on the lovely Pacific island of that name by Japanese and American ...

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 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 ...

The third work in the "Not in Textbooks!" series, which is a live-action movie of a popular love com...

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...

While on vacation in Venice, author Rohan Kishibe is mistaken for a priest and hears the confession ...

Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.

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 ...

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