1944, in the depths of World War II. Toyomatsu Shimizu is a completely typical barber from a remote sea-side town who lives frugally but happily with his wife Fusae and their five-year-old son. Eventually, though, the army beckons and he is drafted. One day an officer on the battle-field orders him to kill a captive U.S. soldier. Although Toyomatsu lacks the spirit to kill the man, and only wounds him in the arm, the victorious U.S. soldiers will not accept this, and Toyomatsu is arrested and tried as a war-criminal. And he receives the cruelest sentence possible...

Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the...

Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colon...

At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...

A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.

After a battle with a high-tech villain named, Saiko-Tek, the Teen Titans travel to the city of Toky...

In southern Germany, winter can still be admired in all its glory every year. With its white coat of...

A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pa...

Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwa...

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret ...

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marr...

A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship...

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particular...

Two different students—a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent—f...

An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction...

Searching for escape in Tokyo's back alleys, a haunted English teacher explores love and lust with a...

Qader, a bricklayer from Sardasht in Kurdistan Iran whose wife is pregnant with her 4th child, sudde...

This lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy's most notorious prisoner...

At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite boardi...