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...

A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his fat...

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges f...

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

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

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

A Japanese intelligence officer faces personal crises in the years preceding the Manchurian conflict...

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...

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

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 pair of siblings make the most of a school snow day, while trying to avoid their nemesis, the Snow...

A career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's d...

A made for TV movie that would be loosely remade as Magnitude 7.9 or DEATHQUAKE

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

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlockin...

A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.

A man stranded in the Arctic is finally about to receive his long awaited rescue. However, after a t...

OBAIDA, a short film by Matthew Cassel, explores a Palestinian child’s experience of Israeli militar...

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsess...