A fictionalised documentary about the great Japanese poet Bashô (1644–1694), the spiritual father of haiku poetry. A monk, portraying the poet, journeys through Japan, following Bashô's journal and writing many of his haikus. A ruminant, poetic, Zen Buddhist observation of nature – a return to the lost paradise of unspoilt nature.
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different t...
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...
The film is a novelized biography of François Villon (1431-1463), known as the Wandering Poet, who l...
A Middle-Eastern medical school student, new to Montreal, puts his relationship with his father at r...
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
A aspiring novelist operates a tiny neighborhood bookstore. His wife is a talented painter. Their ma...
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...
"Taniel" looks at the last months of poet Taniel Varoujan's life, who was murdered in the Armenian G...
After the premature death of her son, Jung-sook learns to read and write by transcribing her late so...
Set 10 years after "Kids Return." Shinji and Masaru have graduated from high school with different p...
A homeless man searches for a safe place on a cold winter night.
Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins ...
In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festiv...
A classmate from Ushijima's middle school days, Takemoto, shows up. He was a kind man, but now is jo...
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with t...
The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...