Set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins from the death of her husband, a Japanese noble, then moves on to her recruitment to train the Prince's young 'wives in waiting'. It is dotted throughout and actually composed mainly of one of the fictional stories she wrote, the tale of Genji. Genji is a rich playboy who falls in love and has a son to his stepmother. He falls in love often and has many wives whom are all completely subservient to him.

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...

Yumi Fukuzawa is an ordinary first year student at Lillian Girls' Academy. By chance Yumi meets seco...

Shuji Mimura works as a broadcast writer. He learns that he doesn't have much time left to live. He ...

The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment dire...

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...

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Fifth movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. At the behest of a corrupt bureaucrat, a mysterio...

The third work in the "Not in Textbooks!" series, which is a live-action movie of a popular love com...

The fourth in a school romantic comedy that features a popular comic by Kazuto Okada starring Ayaka ...

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are ...

A mother searches for her missing son after a devastating calamity, only to realize that she has die...

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In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

Kaoru Fukazawa is a manga artist. His manga series was published for eight years, but has now finish...

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In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to k...

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...