In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated by this, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully follows him.

Kuramoto, who works for a large trading company, is a skilled employee who is well-liked by the comp...

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the ...

A portrayal of the early Latter-day Saints' joys, sacrifices, hopes, and trials; their epic journey ...

Joshua Steed returns to Missouri a wealthy man with a beautiful wife; however, the past has a way of...

Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there ...
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable e...

In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose ...

Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when sh...

On a turn-of-the-20th-century northern Italian farm, a group of sharecroppers eke out a threadbare e...

After Drew Dixon, an upright young man, is sent west by his religious family to avoid being drafted ...

An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talen...

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few d...

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Gr...

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a To...

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

After many years apart, Emilie meets her brother Jakob again. She not only shares her sadness about ...

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...

Missie three years later: being a single mother after her husband Willie was shot during a poker scu...

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w...