Rhapsody in August

The time spent between professional Shogi player Kiriyama and his three stories helps to heal his wounds. As he prepares to secure another win in an...

The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.

When Hugo, a boy who spends his summer vacation with his cousins, discovers that the wolf Rong intends to take his grandmother Sara, he devises a...

Rei helps the woman she's been in love with for years escape her abusive husband. While on the run, their feelings for each other catch fire.

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...

Hajime asks his friend Yoshi to set him up with his classmate Ann. Yoshi tries to do this for Hajime, but this just upsets Ann. Yoshi's relationship...

An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they...

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by...

Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little...

A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.