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.

Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of...

An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a ...

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...

A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whis...

Manuel, a young Dominican chef, has the opportunity to fulfill his dream when a businesswoman asks h...

The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abus...

With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare ...

An adventure film with Benshi performers. Sometimes considered the 'first Japanese feature film', it...

Reino Köyri the son of a wealthy house falls off a horse and ends up at Liuhala's cottage to be trea...

After suffering a serious illness as a child, Yukari Tokino is able to see the dead.

Retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu lives in modern day Taipei, with his three attractive da...

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...

A small village in Aragón, Spain, at the end of the 19th century. After being caught by her father f...

At 2:46 PM on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant experiences a black out due ...

Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...

San and Mayu are two schoolgirls living in Okinawa during the closing months of the Pacific War. Tog...

Yori and his twin sister Iku used to be very close as children but lately Yori has grown colder towa...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...