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.
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitor...
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...
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder...
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the fines...
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...
Beautiful Noriko Miki works at a cosmetic company. One day, Noriko is murdered. People begin to susp...
Tamako graduated from a university in Tokyo, but she now lives with her father back in Kofu. Tamako ...
Satoshi Murayama, the shogi (Japanese chess) master known as the arch-rival of Yoshiharu Habu, the s...
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 ...
A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
Betrayed and disgraced, big-city reporter Kazuya Mizuno is banished to a desk at Kaname's boring lit...
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 ...