Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. At a time when assassination had become a disturbing political tool, Shinoda's film follows Hachiro Kiyokawa, an ambitious, masterless samurai whose allegiances drift dangerously between the Shogunate and the Emperor.

In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury o...

Akira, Takeshi, Yasu, and Shun are a gang of four close friends, all of whom were core members of th...

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...

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...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

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...

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...

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 ...

The first theatrical release, titled Bonobono, opened in theaters on 1993-11-13. The film has since ...