Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire

In this Traveltalk short, the symbolic role of cherry blossoms in Japanese culture is explored as well as the traditional Japanese religions of...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American...

Shunnosuke Katagiri is a samurai and a bookworm. He receives a mission to help a daimyo move. With the assistance of Genemon Takamura and Oran,...

This exploration of Japan's fascination with girl bands and their music follows an aspiring pop singer and her fans, delving into the cultural...

Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the...

Ninomiya Kinjirou is a biopic follows the life of the eponymous character, an 18th century peasant boy who worked to rescue over 600 poor villages...

Bored Hatamoto film #21

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eventually becomes one of the primary influences...

Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship, at the end...

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own mark in the world.