Mika works as a nurse by day; by night she entertains covetous men at a girls' bar. Shinji is blind in one eye and ekes out a living as a construction worker. Young and grown-up at the same time, they both lead a lonely existence, but somehow their paths keep miraculously crossing under the Tokyo sky.

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of la...

Single mom Flora is at a loss about what to do with her rebellious teenage son, Max. Her efforts to ...

Robert works for a travel agency and helps to arrange scenes from the everyday lives of "ordinary" C...

Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is force...

27-year-old Eto Kana lives in Tokyo and has never been out of the city before. She used to work as a...

While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces toget...

In order to turn their lives around, three taxi drivers living at the bottom rung of society hatch a...

Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed ...

At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and...

During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves...

Young social worker falls in love with a delinquent girl on the run.

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a ...

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Ky...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A y...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirem...

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his defor...

Keisuke Kuroda wakes up in a hospital bed unable to remember who he is. While sneaking out of the ho...