For Yasuko every day is a challenge. Due to her mental illness and hypersomnia, simple things like household chores and holding a job seem impossible. Added to the mix is an indifferent, almost distant boyfriend and an ex-girlfriend with plans to win him back.
The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...
Akiko, a young woman, comes to Vladivostok to meet Matsunaga, a young businessman she has met in Tok...
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...
A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World W...
Ono Yasuomi is a cram school teacher with poor communication skills. He hopes to get married but doe...
A family reunites after 15 years. They each have a story to tell as they have not forgotten what ha...
Kamagasaki is an "invisible" slum of Osaka that attracts day laborers and prostitutes since WW2. Whe...
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the fines...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
A new salesman named Kosuke Okuda happens to meet Mao Watarai, a friend from his middle school days....
Tamako graduated from a university in Tokyo, but she now lives with her father back in Kofu. Tamako ...
When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the begi...
Teenage Mutsuko comes to Tokyo for work but ends up at a repair shop. She befriends the owner's fami...
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular histori...
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...
In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As fur...
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown ...
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shift...