Spring, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Toshihiko attends school in the coastal town of Karatsu, where his aunt cares for his ailing cousin. Immersed in the seaside's nature and culture, Toshihiko soon befriends the town's other extraordinary adolescents as they all contend with the war's gravitational pull.

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...

As the romantic monsoon rains loom, the extended Verma family reunites from around the globe for a l...

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...

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

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his fat...

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

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mot...

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...

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...

It is the Edo Period. Younosuke, Nami, and Koutaro of the Hayate School and Ikkaku and Ikki of the I...

A serial-murderer is on the loose who just so happens to also be removing the hearts of his victims ...

In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassi...

Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world g...

On a clear and frigid Christmas Eve in 1998, in a small, forgotten city, a solitary taxi driver on t...

A man witnesses a fatal traffic accident on his way home from work, and the victim is clearly killed...