Umami

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...

If you think a peeled tomato is the daughter of a Brazilian footballer, a crusty sea bass is a bad coffee and cumin is an inappropriate gesture: look...

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...

After the entire flora goes extinct, ecologist Lowell maintains a greenhouse aboard a space station for the future with his android companions....

Good-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life leaves him for a suave Frenchman. He therefore does what every other normal...

In one of Paris's finest restaurants, Remy, a determined young rat, dreams of becoming a renowned French chef. Torn between his family's wishes and...

Akira, Takeshi, Yasu, and Shun are a gang of four close friends, all of whom were core members of their high-school ekiden team. Although they were...

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...

In the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, four Communist party special agents, after returning to China, embark on a secret mission. Sold out by...

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.

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd...

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who...