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

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 the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tr...

The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passag...

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

After her husband deserts her, working-class mother Ray Eddy is in great need of money to find a hom...

Chelsea inherits a house in Vail. She meets Owen and gets a much needed break. Together, they put on...

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombin...

A grumpy old woman befriends a young civil servant and learns English from him. She then reveals to ...

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 ...

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

A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during t...

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

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

A collection of five short films tackling the military industrial complex, the rise of fascism, poli...

The film follows a young boy named Ranko who discovers a large German Shepherd in the mountains, a r...

Three people from a former theater club get back in touch for the first time in 20 years during the ...

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