During a quest to find a Taiwanese father’s grave, disturbing memories of child abuse are aroused.

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world…

A prison officer hands in his resignation after his wife’s death, to drive to the port where she wants her ashes scattered at sea. Eiji (Ken Takakura) works as a…

Akinori Kimura (Sadao Abe) and his wife Mieko (Miho Kanno) opens an apple orchard in their hometown of Hirosaki in Aomori Prefecture. Due to Meiko’s allergic reaction to pesticides, Akinori…

Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother’s grief from beyond the grave.

In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work

Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this boldly erotic yet movingly tender portrait of a group of vulnerable, variously wounded people — a depressed housewife, her high-school-aged…

A sixth grade teacher raises a pig with his class.

Together Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa’s late-life masterpiece, a deep…

A group of magical tales primarily based upon the precise desires of director Akira Kurosawa.

A postman finds he does not always have a lot of time to call home because of terminal disease. A devil subsequently looks infront of him also offers to expand…