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.
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...
Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a...
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by...
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigat...
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...
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 ...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are ...
2 days until the “Last Graduation Ceremony” of high school, the building was to be demolished. Each ...
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...
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occup...
Teacher Akira Suzuki breaks away from long-held customs and norms at his school. He tries hard to ha...
A boy living in underdeveloped Welsh village hopes for a better time of his homeland when seeing the...