Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to that country. Harris discovers enormous hostility to foreigners, as well as the love of a young geisha.
Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-...
After finding out that her husband, Rudi, has a fatal illness, Trudi Angermeier arranges a trip to B...
In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the...
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing ...
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitor...
Heizo's cousin Senemon Misawa and his son Katsuzo visited Heizo's home. Heizo learns that Senemon ha...
The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the fines...
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...
Satoshi Murayama, the shogi (Japanese chess) master known as the arch-rival of Yoshiharu Habu, the s...
Before he hit it big, Takeshi Kitano got his start apprenticing with comedy legend Fukami of Asakusa...
A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It ...
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 ...
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...
William Blake, an accountant turned fugitive, is on the run. During his travels, he meets a Native A...
A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing t...