同胞

When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake of Ozu's own silent film The Story of Floating Weeds (1934).

The main focus is on the 5 member band of a small circus as it runs into problems while touring rural Japan. It also pays lots of attention to the two daughters of the aging and irascible ringmaster-circus owner. The high points are the sound (and score) and cinematography featuring a lot of vertiginous panning (appropriate - as high wire trapeze artists are also an important element in the film). A fascinating side-light on 30s Japan.

An old man is compelled to choose an unlikely means of earning a morsel, his hunger is fulfilled but soon his guilt catches up to create a dilemma.

The high school drama club members, Makoto, Yu, and Mei, huddle in the corner of the gym after school to translate and adapt Oscar Wilde's "The Happy Prince" for the stage. As they read through their translated scripts, they begin contemplating the meaning of happiness.

This is a story about an 18-year-old girl who is sentenced to death after being raped, due to the Islamic Republic of Iran criminal law because she cannot prove that she was defending herself.

When art and science are censored by the deadly Thought Police, a group of artists bands together. They are known simply as Rogue Tiger.

A woman must navigate her way through a surreal landscape where finding love is the only thing that matters. But in order to do it she must confront the memories buried in her own life that have always kept "love" just outside her grasp.

Directed by Norifumi Suzuki and starring Bunta Sugawara this yakuza movie is the third installment of the "Kanto Tekiya family series".

A young boy finds a Magical book. Not believing its real, he casts a spell bringing a soldier from the War of 1812 into modern times.

A young teenager experiences a life-changing lucid dream.