Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 12-year-old Mahiro hires Ishii to impersonate her missing father, the line between acting and reality threatens to blur.

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...

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling...

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...
The story of a young girl in a little town in the north of Morocco learning through life's tasks the...

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...

As the romantic monsoon rains loom, the extended Verma family reunites from around the globe for a l...

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

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...

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...

Shinohara, a young bodybuilder, joins a para-military sect in northern Japan. His instructor, Takiz...

Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins ...

A man witnesses a fatal traffic accident on his way home from work, and the victim is clearly killed...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors ar...

Back Home Again is an ethical film that tells the story of two young intellectuals Feng Shibin and Z...

A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charge...

Kaiji (played by Tatsuya Fujiwara) is about to have his life changed. The thrill is beyond anything ...