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.

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...

Moa is in her early 20s, works at a factory and lives by herself in a cottage in the forest. She is ...

Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit ...

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

In a small village in Västergötland, everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies and ...

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

Minori is a head-strong photographer who is romantically involved with Kushida, her editor. On a pho...

When a group of small-town teenagers find the “Devil's Diary,” a book that embodies the evil of Sata...

A young army surgeon, Kyoji Fujisaki, accidentally contracts syphilis during a WWII field operation....

A rebellious ninja in 17th century Japan takes refuge with a fisherman and his family.

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happi...

A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the ch...

A genius film director, Tadashi Kobayashi holds an audition for his new film project. Several actor...

Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life...

In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of ...

Amateur photographer Makoto and the homely but endearing Shizuru meet during their university entran...

A free-spirited young woman, Breezy, hitches a ride with an aging real estate salesman, Frank. Sensi...

Lem Siddons is part of a traveling band who has a dream of becoming a lawyer. Deciding to settle dow...