While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever...

Just outside of the Malian city of Timbuktu, now occupied by militant Islamic rebels who impose the Sharia on civilians and inconvenience their daily...

An aging, decadent landlord’s passion for music becomes the undoing of his legacy as he sacrifices his wealth in order to compete with the...

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find...

A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of...

The Yangs are betrayed by a government official conspiring with the Mongols. All of the Yang family males except the 5th and 6th brother are killed....

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.

15 August 1990. Viktor Tsoi, the Soviet Union’s most famous rock star, leader of the band Kino, a symbol of freedom and change, dies in an...

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de...