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poster The Funeral of Tomijiro Kobayashi

The Funeral of Tomijiro Kobayashi

8mn - Documentary

poster Anatahan

Anatahan

From June 1944, twelve Japanese seamen are stranded for seven years on an abandoned and forgotten island called Anatahan.

poster Katsudō Shashin

Katsudō Shashin

1mn - Animation, Family

A boy in a cadet's uniform paints a statement on the top of the frame and then tips his cap to the audience. Also known as "Matsumoto fragment".

poster Harakiri

Harakiri

The daughter of a Daimyo, one forced to commit harakiri to secure her a future to choose her own destiny, falls in love with and marries a European officer. The officer returns to Europe but promises to c…

Sequoia

86mn - Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young man meets a 23-year-old cancer patient on the way to the park and disrupts her plan to commit suicide.

poster Be Silent, My Sorrow, Be Silent

Be Silent, My Sorrow, Be Silent

45mn - Drama, Romance

Paula is a circus performer married to the alcoholic clown-acrobat Lorio. Lorio's heavy drinking leads to him being severely injured during a performance. This forces Paula and the now-crippled Lorio to b…

poster Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer

Tchin-Chao, the Chinese Conjurer

A Chinese conjurer stands next to a table, it becomes two tables. A fan becomes a parasol, lanterns appear and disappear. The conjurer spins the open parasol in front of himself, and a dog leaps out from …

poster The Renunciation

The Renunciation

Two miners are fighting over a woman, and one is about to murder the other in his sleep. At the critical moment, the woman introduces her fiancé from the city.

Shadows

Yen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deeply Christian fishing community of Urkey. Yen Sin elects to stay, despite his status as a despised 'heathe…

poster Lutteurs japonais

Lutteurs japonais

1mn - Documentary, Action

Two fighters, in traditional costume, taking part to the national kendo tournament.

poster Leave of Absence

Leave of Absence

88mn - Drama, Short

A man asks his wife for a 'leave of absence' in order to care for his mistress who is dying of cancer.

AWOL

A young woman in the Army must make tough decisions when her love for an older woman causes her to question just where she is going. Adapted from Deb Shoval's 2011 short film of the same name.

poster Marching On

Marching On

118mn - War, Drama

After finding a golden coin, a young orphaned boy's wild spending leads him down a path of materialism and debt, until he escapes to his uncle's countryside retreat where he learns three essential life le…

poster The Last Tango

The Last Tango

10mn - Drama, Romance

The film is based on the words of a song performed by Iza Kremer in Odessa.

poster The Yaqui Cur

The Yaqui Cur

The prospector had taught the Indian boy the doctrine of peace. When his tribe resisted the attack of another tribe the boy did not take part. The din of the battle, as the horsemen circled them again and…

poster Cry for Happy

Cry for Happy

110mn - Romance, Comedy

Army photographers on leave in Japan take over a geisha house.

poster Bon Voyage

Bon Voyage

A young, Scottish RAF gunner is debriefed by French officials about his escape from Nazi-occupied territory. They are particularly interested in one person who may or may not have been a German agent.

poster Song of the Scarlet Flower

Song of the Scarlet Flower

100mn - Drama, Romance

The son of a wealthy farmer loves a simple maid, for which he's booted out of the house by his father.

Ramona

17mn - Drama, Romance, Western

Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian Alessandro. When Ramona is denied permission to marry Alessandro, the lovers elope, only to fi…

poster Spanish Fiesta

Spanish Fiesta

A Spanish festival reveals the emotional distance between a woman and a man.

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