With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic...

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

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

In 1985, Chris Marker traveled to Japan to attend the filming of Ran, directed by Akira Kurosawa. Marker analyzes the progress of filming; the...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

A young girl falls in love with a boy who died 100 years ago, and who wants to be reborn as a new born baby.

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...

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...

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