Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.

When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects...

Kotani Zenzaemon, a ronin who has a side job making brushes in a tenement house in the back alley, i...

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a b...

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....

Two high school girls who are about to graduate also happen to be highly-skilled assassins. When the...

A couple agree to have their deceased son cloned under the supervision of an enigmatic doctor, but b...

An one-legged engineer of hydro construction, a war veteran meets a blind girl in a mountain sanator...

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the ...

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers...

In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion, 17-year-old schoolboys carry the hopes of a...

Afro Samurai avenged his father and found a life of peace. But the legendary master is forced back i...

French silkworm trader Hervé is married to the beautiful Hélène. When an outbreak of disease ravages...

During the Japanese invasion of China, a young Indian doctor joins the Chinese resistance, meets and...

A Holocaust survivor moves to Israel and experiences difficulty adjusting to life.

In 1908, Director/Producer Shozo Makino (father of Japanese cinema) directed and produced the first...

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...

An adventure film with Benshi performers. Sometimes considered the 'first Japanese feature film', it...

The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What ...

Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.