The General and His Empire of Joy

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful...

After five years a tough former prostitute is released from prison and returns to the yakuza that sent her there. It is a cruel and pitiless world...

Yu Ying, Kao and Fan return to China to start a martial arts school but are bullied by the Japanese competitor who runs the Black Bear school. The...

Inspired by the true story of a Geisha murdered in a city famous for its baths, Adachi forged here his favorite style, a kind of conceptual...

A man with a medical condition and a guilty past becomes obsessed with a simple minded girl he finds in a park. His wife is not thrilled when he...

One day, a young man who lost his father when he was young was supposed to meet up with a young man in the mail for a gay magazine, but a strange,...

Shuri and Mario travel to find a place where they can gather energy using feng shui. The two arrive in Yokohama, go to a movie theater in Hattenba,...

In the district of Shinjuku, a cut-throat rōnin student crosses paths with an uninspired painter who does the utmost for his envisioned muse.

On the sand dunes at dusk, the hot and soothing sand is misty, and he abandons his father's morals for an unforgivable "love." Two handsome...

Two young men meet as fate would have it. They loved each other. However, perhaps due to fate, the two are about to be separated again. The two plan...

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts...

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old...