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overview : Seven-year-old Rio visits her grandparents in Japan for the first time. She observes the beauty and unfamiliarity of the household, …

overview : Set 10 years after "Kids Return." Shinji and Masaru have graduated from high school with different paths in their lives. …

overview : Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former …

overview : A surprising and humanistic drama that questions the meaning of happiness through the strange fate of one man who caused …

overview : Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwara District, navigating brothel …

overview : A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order …

overview : In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years earlier.

overview : The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture …

overview : A boy living in underdeveloped Welsh village hopes for a better time of his homeland when seeing the two Japaneese …

overview : Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in …

overview : A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and …

overview : Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging …

overview : It is the early 1930s and the command of the Japanese Imperial Navy determines to construct the world's biggest and …

overview : A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. …

overview : Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower …

overview : When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the beginning …

overview : Rei Kiriyama is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi player when he was in …

overview : In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and …