Seven-year-old Rio visits her grandparents in Japan for the first time. She observes the beauty and unfamiliarity of the household, sensing a distance between her American family and the Japanese relatives. When her mother, Seiko, reveals an open secret during tea, the children are excused from the room and something happens behind closed doors.
Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitor...
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
Rei Kiriyama is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi pla...
Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural J...
A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what trul...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
The seven secretaries who consist of the "Shadow Army" enjoy peaceful days. They receive a new reque...
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...
A man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the local ...
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals....
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mot...
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by...
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigat...
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at ...
A young Tokyo businessman joins an online movie forum and develops a special bond with one of its me...