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.

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...

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 ...

Surya, a boy belonging to a big family of the town, moves out of the house when ignored by his fathe...

During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct...

Koroki is a 35-year old man who admires Japanese singer-songwriter Tamio Okuda and aspires to live l...

Pajo is a hardworking, lonely but also very rich farmer. His son Toma was, however, bored with count...

After suffering through a long and unsuccessful series of fertility treatments, Satoko and her husba...

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...

Snow covered mountains in Japan. Every night, a fisherman makes his way to the market in town. His ...

Ten years after the Fourth Holy Grail War, a devastating clash between Masters and Servants, another...

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shog...

Two rogue vagrants make their living as "manure men", turning the waste from the tenement toilets in...

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 ...

It's summer vacation, but two high schoolers have been instructed to clean the (empty) swimming pool...

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...