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...
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the ...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks ...
Kentaro is an unsocial 35-year-old who lives with his parents and has never dated a woman. When Kent...
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...
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 ...
In this humanistic comedy, set against the backdrop of economic crises and bad news, an extravagant ...
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 ...
Kazumichi Tsuji is a bored office worker in questionable relationships with two women at work. One ...
While on his journey through the countryside of Japan, Shingo encounters many people whose lives hav...
This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short tells the story of Mark Carleton, a worker for t...
An anthology of 7 Mexican short films, all created by 5 up-and-coming independent filmmakers, with a...
A man from rural South Carolina tries to find solace from the demons of his past by starting a Chris...