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.
Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there ...
Kunjoonjamma Thomas is a widow living in the village all by herself. People always make fun of her b...
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...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the he...
Residents of a small town struggle when a paroled rapist moves into the area.
In order to avoid a jail sentence, Sean Boswell heads to Tokyo to live with his military father. In ...
The story of the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of shooting President Kennedy. Via flas...
A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist, and her st...
When the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and C...
Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment mil...
At the end of WWII the Dutch resistance kills a German officer in front of the house of a Dutch fami...
Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer of romantic fiction, is rude to everyon...
The stage of this work is Saitama, a suburb of Tokyo in the early Heisei period. Immediately after t...
Threats from sinister foreign nationals aren't the only thing to fear. Bedraggled college professor ...
Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlockin...
Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. So he's very upset when newc...
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...
Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though ...