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.

The lifelong friendship of two rural Irish girls is put on the test when they grow up and leave for ...

A plastic surgeon changes the face of a female convict to match that of the beautiful woman who brok...

Kaiji Ito moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with...

When Pim and Ploy, twins conjoined at the stomach, are separated, the operation leaves Pim the survi...

A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in ...

Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small ...

A young doctor taking a break from work is shot in the head, and the police can't find a clue even a...

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

Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Em...

Sixteen-year-old Anne grows up in the isolated Biesbosch area, where spacious fields and power pylon...

One day a puppy comes to the house of Akari, who has just turned twelve, and was trying hard to act ...

Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. The first, during a time when Christians are per...

In the spring of 1945, Japan established a secret base, Unit 731 in Manchuria, where many innocent C...

It's almost Christmas but these three people are still on the road. The products don't sell, the car...

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his b...

Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man ...

Mirai Suzuki (Yuko Oshima) becomes responsible for her mother's debt which is owed to loan shark Kao...

Zineb is a psychiatrist assigned to Rihana, a traumatized and pregnant young woman, who was raised a...

A shy newspaperman nearly gives up when his girlfriend falls for the new guy in town till Withers se...

Set during World War II, the film follows a young brother and sister as they attempt to survive the ...