Rikyu

All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys...

Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a...

The story of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli and the purchase by England of the Suez Canal.

Five-time Jiu-jitsu world champion, Tererê won almost every battle he faced on the tatami mats, but it was far from them that he suffered his...

A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later, the family...

Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.

Kaiji Ito moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with society at large, Kaiji spends his days...

Minori is a head-strong photographer who is romantically involved with Kushida, her editor. On a photography assignment she gets into an argument...

Giovanni currently lives a dreary life of near non-stop work. At school, his peers ridicule him incessantly, and his employer at work is distant and...

Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism...

A high school teacher, struggling to keep up with today's youth and estranged from his only son, receives the news about a terrible accident that...

CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.