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.

A group of drug-influenced lumpen teenagers from the suburbs of the city descends into the center wh...

Three tales that center around sex and citizens of Tokyo: A repressed woman embraces her sexuality, ...

Two detectives clash over the hunt for a burlesque dancer’s killer in Los Angeles’ Japanese district...

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three ...

A mother takes her two sons on an unusual road trip from New York to Pittsburgh, St. Louis and event...

Britain, 1958. Restless at school and bored with his life, Jim leaves home to take a series of low-l...

In the aftermath of her husband's death, widow Ramona's struggle to raise her two kids is hindered b...

The young caretaker at the estate of a reclusive woman develops a dangerous obsession with her daugh...

Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge,...

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

A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel...

Cynical look at a 1950s rebellious Rocker who has to confront his future, thugs with knives, and the...

A silent film about a sorrowful man who's searching for a buyer for his goods and acceptance for his...

A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.

It was a pre-destined love and marriage for Sonoko and Tetsuo. They tied the knot and became husband...

This semi-autobiographical film by Barry Levinson follows various members of the Kurtzman clan, a Je...

A Midwestern housewife supports her large family by entering contests for ad slogans sponsored by co...

In Japan's Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him on a...

Kyoko Otonashi is a 22-year-old widow. Six months have passed since the sudden death of her husband,...

At the end of the Civil War, Belle Gatlin Barlowe, a widowed mother of three, faces uncertainty as s...