Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to life in this new tale of his further romantic adventures. Young Genji, the emperor’s illegitimate son cuts a swath through the women of the imperial court, while still mourning the spirit of his late mother who died while he was still a child. Driven to an obsession with the emperor’s new concubine, Lady Fujitsubo, whose resemblance to his late mother originally caught the eye of the emperor, young Genji embarks upon a reckless affair with her that could cost him his life.

A young girl, cook Varia, loses her job because no one needs her haute cuisine in a roadside café. S...

A struggling model and a troubled divorcee face loneliness and desperation in Tokyo.

Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his fo...

Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wif...

For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This ye...

Dramatisation of Jean Rhys's novel set in 19th-century Jamaica. The tragic story of the first Mrs Ro...

Would-be writer Ryunosuke Chagawa is still living across the street from Norifumi Suzuki and his aut...

Second silver screen adaption of the Finnish war book by Väinö Linna. The story is based on Linna's ...

Stockholm in the 1920s. Young Roland lives with his socialist father, Jewish mother and a boxing bro...

In the wake of Jamaican emancipation, French colonist Annette Cosway falls into poverty and marries ...

Packard Schmidt is a burnt-out, middle-aged college English professor. In a desperate attempt to res...

Television film about people who are actively involved in the Slovak national uprising in 1944. A sc...

The film is based on the real fact — football «The Death Match» between the German team and a team o...

Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are h...

Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the great...

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship w...

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world an...

Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her th...

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...

Based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recoun...