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.

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...

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

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...

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

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

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 ...

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

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...

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

A government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh inherit her husband’s job as a police constable in th...

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

In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in order to help ...

Kale has a life most teenagers would envy. He spends his days endlessly playing video games, surfing...

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rival...

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