One day a puppy comes to the house of Akari, who has just turned twelve, and was trying hard to act strong after her mother suddenly fell ill. She immediately falls in love with the puppy and names it "Socks" after the paws which looked like they had white socks on. Akari was together with Socks day and night. However, as Akari grows up, her feelings and interest moves away from Socks. Year by year, their distance grows, which also leads to her physical distance as she moves to a far off city, and must leave Socks behind to a childhood friend.One day Akari remembers the 10 promises that she had made with Socks and her deceased mother...

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...

A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the sa...

A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of h...

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel ...

A retired farmer and widower in his seventies named Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant b...

George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that featu...

Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote ...
The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai who seek vengeance against the man who caused their ma...

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...

Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the ric...

A misanthropic author, a single mother and waitress, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship af...

The story takes place in 1917. Véronique is a young woman of 35 years, nurse at the military hospita...

An orphan bear cub hooks up with an adult male as they try to dodge human hunters.

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A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.

Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, ...

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...