Five loosely connected storylines concerning the secrets and lies, the fears and tears, and the puerile potty jokes that punctuate the characters' daily (and in one eerie case, nightly) encounters.
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
In a dysfunctional family where the mother is a heroin addict and prostitute, beaten by her son, and...
Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined...
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mot...
Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expeditio...
In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As fur...
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown ...
Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in t...
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique ...
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shift...
The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controll...
Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi...
Hideo Suzuki is a 35-year-old mangaka assistant, whose life seem to be stuck around his exhausting b...
The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in th...
In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge t...
Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwa...
Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in...
After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local...
On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office....
Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and n...