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.

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop f...

When his father flees from debt, carefree college student Osamu sees his life turn upside-down. Expe...

Spain, 1950s. Montse's agoraphobia keeps her locked in a sinister apartment in Madrid and her only l...

Clay is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend, Earl, kill himself because of the ongo...

Former yakuza underling Kazuma Kiryū has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarcer...

A wronged woman takes revenge on her wheelchair bound father-in-law.

A 13-year old lonely teenager girl is madly in love with a greasy haired, 30-year old rocker boy in ...

Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed ...

When a retired professor and a widowed engineer in his 40s bond after a chance meeting, their conver...

Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They...

A visit to the employment office, practicing dance steps, making music with friends: several women’s...

Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as lett...

When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to ...

In order to avoid a jail sentence, Sean Boswell heads to Tokyo to live with his military father. In ...

Lifelong hard work for the count makes the servant Anton a cripple. Everybody calls him Crooked Anto...

A troubled family's problems come to a head during a stay in a seaside town.

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret ...

In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become a...

A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his fat...

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges f...