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...

Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed ...

At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and...

During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves...

In central Tokyo, a young man, Sosuke, aspires to be a manga artist. His current work is about a bat...

The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin,...

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to k...

One samurai is ordered to kill another by their master in punishment.

The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abus...

Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and n...

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a b...

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...

Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins ...

The happy home life of a high school student who lives with her loving stepfather is put in jeopardy...

Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.

An adventure film with Benshi performers. Sometimes considered the 'first Japanese feature film', it...

When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the begi...

An epic drama about Nichiren's life. Nichiren was a Buddhist monk who lived for 60 years during the ...

At 2:46 PM on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant experiences a black out due ...