Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother retu...

The secret warriors of feudal Japan were the ninja. Sent on impossible missions, the ninja were trai...

A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various...

A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend ...

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

A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yak...

Margot Zeller is a short story writer with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. On the eve of her...

At 2:46 PM on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant experiences a black out due ...

Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique ...

In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that the...

Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shift...

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controll...

Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi...

When the evil Orteca convinces an office worker to contract with and unleash the Spider Deadman, Ikk...

An epic drama about Nichiren's life. Nichiren was a Buddhist monk who lived for 60 years during the ...

In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As fur...

Shindo Yuya quits his job and joins the agriculture and forestry division of Takasaki City in Gunma ...

This is the story of Kaori Kawabuchi, a samurai sword performer, singer and motion capture actor. An...

After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a myste...