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overview : Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Ozu's charming film is a social …

overview : A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells the story …

overview : Three hit people - two men, one woman, who have never met before are placed on a road trip down …

overview : Two broken people - a Lao-Australian woman and a teenage hitchhiker - must navigate grief, isolation and an unlikely connection …

overview : Melvin Junko was a nerdy weakling until he fell into a vat of toxic waste, turning him into the first …

overview : After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey …

overview : After failing his university entrance exam, Yuki Hirano sets his eyes on the role of a forestry trainee. Setting off …

overview : During a book tour in the United States, Max meets and falls in love with a young woman. Many years …

overview : Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and …

overview : The stormy tale of the Shinsengumi is told from its birth by master filmmaker Sasaki Yasushi, with an all-star cast …

overview : Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.

overview : A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are …

overview : The fledgling romance between Nick, a playboy bachelor, and Suzanne, a divorced mother of two, is threatened by a particularly …

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

overview : Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters …

overview : Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece …

overview : Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress …

overview : The tribulations of an engineer and an archaeologist who search for a lost city in the desert of the United …