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A drama set in Western Australia's Pilbura desert. A geologist named Sandy, and a Japanese businessman, Hiromitsu, play out a story of human inconsequence, in the face of the blistering universe. The end of the journey leaves...

A journey into Japan's cinematic underworld from the end of World War II until now. Over the forty year period, actual yakuza and gang leaders became top actors in the genre of yakuza cinema.

On a train traveling through the Japanese countryside is Kenji, a young man searching for something or, rather, someone. As if guided by some irrepressible instinct...

Fred Korematsu was Japanese-American born, raised in California, and was very much your average...he just intrinsically knew it was wrong. One of a small number of Japanese Americans to resist the internment during World War II, Korematsu...

At the tail end of the Sino-Japanese War, a Japanese woman who is shelterd by her newlywed husband--a Chinese officer--must learn to bridge between 18th century existence and her 20th century world.

Portrait of a not-so-run-of-the-mill Japanese family, as told through the diary-of-self-discovery by a sibling who returns to the nest after a period abroad.

...French actress Beatrice Dalle, cinematographer Caroline Champetier and writer Kou Machida, an emblem of contemporary Japanese literature, join Suwa in the challenging task of re-interpreting complex emotions linked to a singular time and place in...

Based on the true story of Thailand's famed transgender kickboxer, Parinya Charoenphol. Believing he's a girl trapped in a boy's body since childhood...

Hannibal's story begins in Eastern Europe at the desperate end of World War II. For...discovers that he has died, the uncle's beautiful and mysterious Japanese widow, Lady Murasaki welcomes him. Even her kindness and love cannot...

...discover the bizarre truth--their daughter was abducted by North Korean spies, and was part of an espionage plot to kidnap Japanese civilians to use them as language trainers for the North Korean military. Megumi's parents, an ordinary banker and housewife...