In 1863, when American warships approach Japan, an enigmatic ronin becomes an important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and the empire.

Two middle aged German brothers - one New Age and recently divorced, the other uptight and sceptical...

Reality and fantasy melds as a Korean documentary film director attempts to capture life in the smal...

A virtuous and passionate girl falls in love with a cynical but a dashing aristocrat.

Kichigoro, a firefighter from the Maeda family of the Kaga Principality, rescues Oshimo, the younger...

Live performance, Bayerische Staatsoper, 2011. The Tales of Hoffmann (French: LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN...

At the baseball club of Yame Kita High School in the southern part of Fukuoka Prefecture, fierce com...

Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over wat...

In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy jo...

When Benjamin Steed and Mary Ann Steed relocate their family to upstate New York in the early 1800's...

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his b...

Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after ha...

Teenage Mutsuko comes to Tokyo for work but ends up at a repair shop. She befriends the owner's fami...

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is t...

London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of...

In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him...

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a b...

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....

A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capita...

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...