Bakurô ichidai / The Life of a Horse Trader (1951) Keigo Kimura, Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Takashi Shimura
This early gem starring the great Mifune Toshiba tells the tale of Katakana...
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors / Oh! Soo-jung (2000) Sang-soo Hong, Eun-ju Lee, Seong-kun Mun, Won-hee Cho
A young man arrives at a hotel for an assignation; she calls to say she’s n...
Okuni to Gohei (1952) Mikio Naruse, Michiyo Kogure, Tomoemon Otani, Sô Yamamura
Kogure is the widow of an assassinated samurai and Otani was that man’s pup...
First Name: Carmen AKA Prénom Carmen (1983) Jean-Luc Godard, Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé, Myriem Roussel
Carmen is a member of a terrorist gang who falls in love with a young polic...
Purple Butterfly / Zi hu die (2003)
Manchuria, 1928. During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, Itami, a young...
An Inn in Tokyo (1935) Yasujirô Ozu, Takeshi Sakamoto, Yoshiko Okada, Chôko Iida, Drama
Unemployed Kihachi and his two sons struggle to make ends meet. But that do...
Color Blossoms / Toh sik (2004) Yonfan, Keiko Matsuzaka, Teresa Cheung, Harisu
An art film from a true artist. Yonfan trains his celebrated eye on five de...
Too Hot to Handle (1938) Jack Conway, Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Chris Hunter is a sly newsreel reporter. While in Shanghai doing reports on...
The House of Hanging AKA Byoinzaka no kubikukuri no ie (1979) Kon Ichikawa, Koji Ishizaka, Yoshiko Sakuma, Junko Sakurada
Kosuke visits a photo studio to take photo for his passport. There he happe...
A Confucian Confusion AKA Du li shi dai (1994) Edward Yang, Li-Mei Chen, Shiang-chyi Chen, Yi-wen Chen
After firing a colleague, the head of a PR company begins to question her l...
Twenty-Four Eyes (1954) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideki Gôko, Itsuo Watanabe, Makoto Miyagawa, Drama
Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi struggles to imbue her students with a positive ...
Hear the Song of the Wind / Kaze no uta o kike (1982) Kazuki Ohmori, Kaoru Kobayashi, Kimie Shingyôji, Kai Atô
A student travels back to Kobe for the summer. Once there, he meets his fri...
Happiness of Us Alone AKA Namonaku mazushiku utsukushiku (1961) Zenzô Matsuyama, Hideko Takamine, Keiju Kobayashi, Izumi Hara
Tragic story of a deaf-mute(Takamine) who marries another deaf-mute(Kobayas...
Shadow of the Wraith (2001) Toshiharu Ikeda, Kozue Ayuse, Hyôe Enoki, Makiko Fujii
A two part horror film. The first segment deals with a teenage girl who lea...
A Mother’s Love / Bojô (1950) Hiroshi Shimizu, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Musei Tokugawa, Yatarô Kurokawa
A poor mother leaves behind three children,whom she had with different fath...