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...

Seigo Yoshioka (Kenji Sakaguchi) is a teacher that became mute after a kendo accident. He feels lost...

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ d...

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She ...

A boy and a girl are left homeless while expecting their baby to be born. Together they leave the fa...

As the Christmas holidays begin, a group of 10 war-obsessed kids have a wave of inspiration: What if...

Japan, 1946, just after the end of World War II. As the US occupation army patrols the dilapidated s...

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

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

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

Shun Miyata's new life in Tokyo takes a dark turn when he and coworker Yuka discover their boss Yuri...

This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young ...

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she stru...

Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife...

Kuramoto, who works for a large trading company, is a skilled employee who is well-liked by the comp...

A young man and woman discover the beauty of Tokyo at night as they wander around the streets of the...

Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor of Hague's Tribunal for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, charges a Serb...

Mr. Takazawa, an elderly invalid who is cared for at his home by Haruko, a young nursing student, is...

Two young skaters, polar opposites in personality, team up to train for an ice-dancing competition, ...

In a small Vietnamese village torn apart by war, a young woman faces unimaginable horrors before dec...

A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other e...