With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money.

When a young boy comes in to see a doctor abourt a red mark on his face, the doctor's wife welcomes ...

In the 19th century, a young widow named Eva manages a remote winter fishing outpost in an Arctic ba...

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the he...

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

An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in...

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-doo...

The widow of a nobleman bears a son after having an affair with her servant. The servant and the bab...

A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking ...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. Howeve...

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...

A woman moves into a Manhattan apartment, where she learns that the previous tenant's life ended und...

The story of a war-orphan, who remembers first post-war days, his stay in Home for war-orphans, his ...

After his daughter persuades him to move into a new apartment, aged widower Fred strikes up a friend...

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

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

In the Stockholm archipelago in the 1880s, Carlsson move out to an isolated farmstead to help the wi...

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...