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...

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the ...

A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular a...

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mot...

Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a lov...

A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.

A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning...

Otto and Ana are kids when they meet each other. Their names are palindromes. They meet by chance, p...

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...

Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apar...

While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Lt. Chris Burnett photograp...

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with ...

Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts ...

Yuri leaves Ryo with mysterious words. Ryo goes to Hokkaido knowing that his doppelganger magician i...

An unprecedented epidemic of rabies is breaking out in the taiga. Infected wolves become more and mo...

A career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's d...
After years in Canada, Thomas, returning home, finds a rather frosty welcome. Bernhard has moved in ...

During the conflict in the former Yugoslavia many soldiers were convinced to kill fellow citizens in...

A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendet...