Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.

Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.

Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Ha...

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ d...

A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all ...

Verena is a nurse who arrives at an old mansion in Italy to help a young boy who has fallen silent s...

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

From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, ...

Seigo Yoshioka (Kenji Sakaguchi) is a teacher that became mute after a kendo accident. He feels lost...

Mr. Takazawa, an elderly invalid who is cared for at his home by Haruko, a young nursing student, is...

Yu Ying, Kao and Fan return to China to start a martial arts school but are bullied by the Japanese ...

Pre-WWII Czech democratic politician Milada Horáková was one of the first victims of the communist r...

Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play ...

Marian Forbes has been having an affair with her boss and when he drops her for another woman. In an...

A lost cat, a giant talkative frog and a tsunami help a bank employee without ambition, his frustrat...

A rebellious teenager, future Beatle John Lennon lives with his Aunt Mimi in working-class mid-1950s...

When Keiji Takama returns to Nagasaki, he finds many changes. The rights of the entertainment field ...

Kuramoto, who works for a large trading company, is a skilled employee who is well-liked by the comp...

A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She mak...

This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young ...

The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers ...