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...

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

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

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

Documentary about Ukrainian heroes and others who keep making music in the harshest conditions, to l...

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

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austria...

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...

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...

Max is a former playboy who has decided to settle down by marrying his current love, Muriel. However...

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her moth...

Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose...

In order to avoid a jail sentence, Sean Boswell heads to Tokyo to live with his military father. In ...

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

Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his...

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

A mysterious woman, known as Madame M, kidnaps forty pre-teen girls and transports them to a remote ...

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

Shibuya in Tokyo, a city that continues to change due to redevelopment. At a house in the corner of ...

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