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Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Hiroko attends the memorial service of her fiancé, Itsuki Fujii, who died in a mountain-climbing incident. Although Itsuki's mother says that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miho Nakayama

Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, a girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomoko Tabata

One summer day, a group of sixth-grade boys have an argument about whether fireworks are round or flat when viewed from different angles and embark...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Megumi Okina

Two interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity during the war: the vivisections of a downed American...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Okuda

The adventures of Golden Retriever pup Napoleon and his friend, the parrot Birdo Lucci.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jamie Croft

In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must come to terms with their nation's defeat and the...

Genre: War

Cast: Takaya Yamauchi

An intimate chronicle of the shooting of Ran (1985), a film directed by the legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Chris Marker

A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before sharing stories of their own.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

A Tokyo psychiatrist is hoping to better his career by marrying the daughter of a prominent doctor. The match is threatened however when an...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

A blind man's master told him that after he has broken 1000 strings on his Banjo, he can open the Banjo to get a script for his eyes. After 60 years...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Liu Zhongyuan

An anthology film centering around the worldwide adventures of the Nissan Figaro.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masako Dono

Based on a semi-autobiographical story by Ogai Mori, about a Japanese medical student who goes to Berlin to study in the 1880s and falls in love with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiromi Go

In 1923 a Japanese comes to Munich and immediately falls in love with a street artist with a red hat, without knowing her past is. She turns to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Herb Andress

A continuation of the story of the postwar years in the Japanese Inland Sea. Now a decade has passed. Two friends meet and decide to look for the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshihiko Tahara

A girl dies and a ghost who died 80 years ago tries to convince her to come back to life instead of remaining a ghost.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Tomoko Nakajima

A divorced man meets a kindly Korean prostitute whom he cannot get from his mind. Things don’t prove to be straightforward for either of them.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideaki Nitani