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.

17-year-old Asher is split between his charismatic teacher and his brash father, who wants him to ta...

For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last ...

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...

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

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are ...

Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an ...

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...

A posthumous look at the last days of Guenther's life as he, his best friend, and his sister let loo...

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...

Scientist Galileo Galilei was engaged in his studies, but a servant of his attempts to seduce his da...

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 multi-awarded 23 minute short film about pansexual punk rockers in a toxic relationship in London’...

A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydi...

Two high school girls who are about to graduate also happen to be highly-skilled assassins. When the...

An exploration on Paz's poetry by Paz himself, his childhood, his ideas about love and the nature of...

With £2.50 in their bank accounts, two friends Saoirse and Emma vow to have the greatest night of th...

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing ...