
In Okayama in the mid-1930s, Kiroku attends high school and boards with a Catholic family whose daughter, Michiko, captures his heart. Read More »
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Samurai Vendetta (1959) Kazuo Mori, Raizô Ichikawa, Shintarô Katsu, Chitose Maki

Tange Tenzen and Nakayama Yasubei are honorable samurai living in an era of corrupt officials and treacherous clans. Read More »
Tora-San 2: Cherished Mother / Zoku otoko wa tsurai yo (1969) Yôji Yamada, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baishô, Chôchô Miyako

Tora-san hears that his mother is still alive and returns to Tokyo to track her down. Read More »
Not As a Stranger (1955) Stanley Kramer, Olivia de Havilland, Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum

Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. Read More »
It’s a Gift (1934) Norman Z. McLeod, W.C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Jean Rouverol

The owner of a general store (Harold Bisonette) is hounded by his status-anxious wife Read More »
Actress / Joyu (1947) Teinosuke Kinugasa, Isuzu Yamada, Michiko Araki, Eitarô Shindô

Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought Read More »
Widows’ Peak (1994) John Irvin, Joan Plowright, Mia Farrow, Natasha Richardson

In 1934, an English widow moves to Widows’ Peak, Ireland. She befriends other widows and the son of one. Read More »
Docteur Chance (1997) F.J. Ossang, Pedro Hestnes, Elvire, Marisa Paredes

A young gangster deals with stolen works of art and other dodgy items under the order of his overbearing mother. Read More »
Invoking Yell (2023) Patricio Valladares, Macarena Carrere, María Jesús Marcone, Andrea Ozuljevich

Set in 1990s story of three twenty something women who venture into the woods to shoot a demo tape for their black metal band. Read More »
The Lady Eve (1941) Preston Sturges, Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn

Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship. Read More »
The Hidden Blade (2004) Yôji Yamada, Masatoshi Nagase, Takako Matsu, Hidetaka Yoshioka

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. Read More »
Hoodlum Priest and the Gold Mint (1968) Kazuo Ikehiro, Shintarô Katsu, Kayo Matsuo, Taketoshi Naitô

The rogue Ryuzen priest is now not only gambling, fornicating, fighting, drinking Read More »
Tokyo Family (2013) Tôkyô kazoku

An old married couple Shukichi Hirayama and Tomiko live on a small island in the Inland Sea. Read More »
Stella Dallas (1937) King Vidor, Barbara Stanwyck

Working-class Stella Martin marries high-end Stephen Dallas and soon they have a daughter named Laurel. Read More »
Secrets of a Nurse / Bisturi, la mafia bianca (1973) Luigi Zampa, Gabriele Ferzetti, Senta Berger, Enrico Maria Salerno

The surgeon Daniel Vallotti owns a luxurious private clinic, where patients admitted selling according to financial resources. Read More »