Snow covered mountains in Japan. Every night, a fisherman makes his way to the market in town. His 6 year old son is awoken by his departure and finds it impossible to fall back to sleep. In the sleeping household, the young boy draws a picture he then slips into his satchel. On his way to school, still drowsy, he strays off the path and wanders into the snow...
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...
2 days until the “Last Graduation Ceremony” of high school, the building was to be demolished. Each ...
Jun is a girl whose words have been sealed away so that she cannot hurt anyone with them. But, one ...
The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abus...
High schooler Shiori lives with her education-minded mother. Struggling with her life in Tokyo, she ...
Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...
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...
Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a...
Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins ...
The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...
A bored trio of high school delinquents start a rock 'n' roll band together. They have no skill, mon...
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...
Tokunaga is an unpopular comedian. He meets a senior comedian, Kamiya, who holds a strong faith in c...
Six directors picked a favorite song by Japanese punk rock band "The Blue Hearts" and made a short f...
When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt...
After failing his university entrance exam, Yuki Hirano sets his eyes on the role of a forestry trai...