A Dry White Season (1989)

Lisa learns that her stepfather, whom she hasn’t seen in years, suffered a deadly fall down the stairs at the family home and that her estranged mother has been arrested…

A stranger in the city asks questions no one has asked before. Known only by his initials, the man’s innocent questions and childlike curiosity take him on a journey of…

Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he’s a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.

A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his possession.

A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the…

A single father attempts to find love and a mom for his 7-year-old son but crosses paths with his ex who returns to the city after a long gap.

Francis is an African soccer player whose life comes spiraling down after he fixes a match. Soon, he’s on the run, taking shelter at a mountain ranch led by a…

Taking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling skills, teams up with the vagabond Tsukuba Tsuneji and comes into conflict with gamblers plotting…

After dying from a strange illness that she suffered for three years, a mother returns home to pick up her children.

Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father’s prostitute as his wife.

A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.

Each year Lucia volunteers at a Summer Camp in Sicily. This summer however, will be the hottest on record, not just because of the crazy weather, but also because of…