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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwa...

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marr...

A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship...