Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and never returning, deadbeat gambler Masato dies of stomach cancer. At his funeral, a motley crew of fellow mahjong players, pachinko parlor employees and former drinking buddies gather to pay their respects and tell stories, revealing aspects of Masato’s life that complicate his sons’ resentment towards him.

In a once-scenic village now dominated by a vast trash disposal site, a young man yearns to break fr...

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

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

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...

Shinohara, a young bodybuilder, joins a para-military sect in northern Japan. His instructor, Takiz...

Legendary singer Claire Emery flies to Japan for a final sold-out concert. But when the show ends, s...

Five loosely connected storylines concerning the secrets and lies, the fears and tears, and the puer...

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

The four turtles travel back in time to the days of the legendary and deadly samurai in ancient Japa...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...

A cursed dancer and a blind musician — both ostracized by society — become business partners and ins...

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...