After seeing her husband off to work, the young author identified only as Yoshiko sets off to read the large collection of letters she received from other young authors. These are often letters containing samples of their work for critique. One large envelope contains a letter. The letter-writer does not provide his name. The letter is a confession of crimes. The letter-writer has no family or friends, and claims to be "ugly beyond description". He is a chair maker and loves his work and all the chairs he creates, even going so far as to claim some sort of intangible connection to his work.

Summoned by his dying father, Miyagi returns to his homeland of Okinawa, with Daniel, after a 40-yea...

Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a...

Yumi Fukuzawa is an ordinary first year student at Lillian Girls' Academy. By chance Yumi meets seco...

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A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.

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A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigat...
A boy living in underdeveloped Welsh village hopes for a better time of his homeland when seeing the...

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined...

After finding out that her husband, Rudi, has a fatal illness, Trudi Angermeier arranges a trip to B...

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals....

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mot...

Pinku distributed by Million. Rumi Tama's directorial debut.

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing ...

The first theatrical release, titled Bonobono, opened in theaters on 1993-11-13. The film has since ...

A cursed dancer and a blind musician — both ostracized by society — become business partners and ins...

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