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...

Komari Sano's parents ran a small Tokyo factory that manufactured aircraft parts. With her parents' ...

The year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old Yono...

An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and ...

Newly-arrived Ahmed tries to integrate his family to the canadian society, while attempting to contr...

Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-st...

Documentary about Japan's Unit 731 of World War II.

Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (late...

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

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...

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

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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