Stars: Jûkichi Uno
A young boy is separated from his mother after a tyrannical ruler marries her. He grows up in poverty until he gets the chance to achieve his dreams...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Takashi Shimura, Noriko Honma, Minoru Chiaki, Machiko Kyô
The story of the rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband is told by four people, a bandit, the bride herself, the ghost of her samurai husband and a woodcutter.
Stars: Nana Mizuki, Romi Park, Hiroyuki Yoshino, Daisuke Namikawa, Hidenobu Kiuchi
Twelve-part animation series based on six Japanese literary classics. Available stories include: There will be no more humans, hurry, Melos! by a director named Osamu Dazai, and another story called In the forest, under the cherry blossoms that...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Hideyo Amamoto, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Yôko Naitô, Yoshiro Uchida
The story is about the conflict between the Korean painter Yoshihide and his hard-hearted Japanese master Horikawa. Horikawa asks him to paint a picture of Buddha on the wall of his new temple, but he refuses and...
Stars: William Shatner, Paul Newman, Claire Bloom, Paul Fix, Albert Salmi
Travelers in the Southwest in the 1870s discuss a murder trial and each tells a different story about the incident...
Stars: Phetthai Vongkumlao, Dom Hetrakul, Ananda Everingham, Mario Maurer, Libby Brien
It is about a monk who wants to find the truth of something...
Stars: Jeff Fahey, John W. Iwanonkiw, Bridget Fonda, J.T. Walsh, Peter Allas
In Corinth, a dying town 15 miles from Pittsburg: One evening, a Japanese businessman, who wanted to tear down the closed iron mills to build an amusement park, is found half dead in his ...
