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.

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

Based on Jim Harrison's book, "Farmer". 47-year-old Joseph Svenden lives on the family farm with his...

An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they ...

Adapted from a sex-stuffed cult novel, LALAPIPO (a play on the phrase “A Lot of People”) follows div...

Based on the original work of Akutagawa Prize-winning writer Ashihei Hino, the film depicts the love...

1944, in the depths of World War II. Toyomatsu Shimizu is a completely typical barber from a remote ...

In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives thr...

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...