In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregnant by a man she does not want to marry and has found a kindred spirit in a used bookstore owner who aids her research.
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...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...
This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most not...
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are ...
A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what trul...
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...
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...
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author...
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is throw...
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
Rei Kiriyama is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi pla...
Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural J...
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitor...
Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-...
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of soli...
The seven secretaries who consist of the "Shadow Army" enjoy peaceful days. They receive a new reque...