Extrême-Orient

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

After falling in love with a courtesan, Rikiya is blinded by ash during a fight in a brothel. Believing the blindness permanent and his opponent dead, Rikiya goes back home to his sister. Okiku, desperate to protect her brother who thinks himself a murderer, wants to sacrifice herself for him and become a prostitute to pay for Rikiya's treatment.

The daughter of a peasant family that works on a landowner's property is in love with the owner's son but the parents force them to separate.She lands up having a child out of wedlock.

Two young brothers throw a tantrum when they discover that their father isn't the most important man in his workplace.

Street walker by night, devoted mother by day, a woman fights to get her young son an education amid criminal and social injustice in China.

The adopted son of a legendary actor, and an aspiring star himself, turns to his infant brother's wet nurse for support and affection - only for her to give up everything for her beloved's glory.

Three travelers needing to pass through a fiery mountain seek the magical fan of a princess, but she does not wish to part with it.

A man returns from World War II to find his desperate wife had resorted to one night of prostitution to pay for their son's hospital bills.

A lonely housewife finds her monotonous life altered when her childhood sweetheart returns to town.

Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a drinking habit. She's always been in love with Hiroshi, but he left for France years ago without proposing. Now he is back and Mariko (Setsuko's sister) tries to reunite them, although secretly she loves him too.

The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.

A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.

An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.

Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him.

Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man who shows a low self esteem, shares her family life with her asleep vocation as a poetess. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and the development of a serious illness: a breast cancer, which leads her to lose her breasts. In the last stage of her life she meets a young journalist arrived from Tokyo, an admirer of her work, who want to write a story on her life. Both live a secret love history.

The adventures of a cute little panda, a dragon god and an evil serpent.

A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan.

As a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist struggles to maintain his determination to keep his ideals.

His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival.

A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.

Zushio and his sister Anju are kidnapped and sold to a cruel slave-master. Will they ever be reunited with their mother again?

When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.

An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.

An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.