In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the...

Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise...

War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly...

A psychotic small-time criminal realizes that the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he commits aren't profitable enough, so he figures to hit the...

Yoshitsune Minamoto, disguised with his retinue as monks, must make do with a comical porter as their guide through hostile territory en route to...

A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to...

The story of a young man who loves crime fiction books, and the daugher of a mafia leader.

A shy seventeen-year-old construction worker tries to hold his own in the macho world of roofers

A young boy comes of age in a Mumbai slum while dealing with his long-suffering mother and violent father, in this gently observational portrait...

After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, where Alice hopes to make a new life for herself...