Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.

Den unge nyuddannede Dr. Yasumoto ankommer til en fattigt landhospital, ledet af Dr. Niide – Rødskæg. Han er ambitiøs og arrogant uden særlig interesse for sine fattige patienter og finder, at Rødskæg er en krævende arbejdsgiver. Rødskæg er fuldstændig dedikeret til sine patienter og forlanger en asketisk livsførelse af sine ansatte. I mødet med Rødskæg ændrer Yasumoto langsomt holdning til sine patienter og begynder at engagere sig i deres liv.

I det feudale Japan, under en blodig krig mellem klaner, støder to kujonagtige og grådige bønder, soldater fra en besejret hær, på en mystisk mand, der fører dem til en fæstning skjult i bjergene.

I den 16. århundredes Japan narre krigsherre Shingen Takeda fjenden ved at bruge tyven Kagemusha som dobbeltgænger. Alligvel bliver Shingen myrdet, men for at undgå kaos og nederlag bliver Kagemusha tvunget til at overtage den døde krigsherre identitet og ansvar.

Kwaidan er japansk for spøgelseshistorie, hvilket afslører indholdet i den anerkendte instruktør Masaki Kobayashis klassiske gyserantologi. Beskrevet af den legendariske filmkritiker Roger Ebert som "en samling spøgelseshistorier, som hører til de smukkeste film, jeg har set", vinder af juryprisen i Cannes samt nomineret til Oscaren for bedste udenlandske film.

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi's father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father's death.

Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover, who will not leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumors fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit.

A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent. When amoral thief Sutekichi breaks off his affair with landlady Osugi to romance her younger sister, Okayo, Osugi extracts her revenge by revealing her infidelity to her jealous husband.

Ten-year-old Johnny stands out from his family and his tough neighborhood in Eastern France. He's sensitive, intelligent and interested in all kinds of things way beyond his years. With curiosity, he observes the ups and downs of his young single mother's turbulent love life. Things change when a new teacher, fresh from the big city, takes over Johnny's class. Mr. Adamski believes in Johnny and wants to open a new world to him. The sophisticated young teacher also intrigues the boy.

Over the course of one foggy day in August 1912, a retired Irish theater actor grapples with the morphine addiction of his unbalanced wife, debauchery of his older son, and sickness of the youngest son as past guilts, repressed anger, and deep-seated regrets slowly come boiling out, threatening to destroy the family.

A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.

A pickup artist/womanizer named Patrick inadvertently pursues two young women who happen to be roommates.

Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them. One of them is volunteering for experiments conducted by a local doctor, who puts Woyzeck on a diet of peas. This serves to drive him close to madness, and the discovery that Marie is involved in an affair with the local drum major exacerbates the situation. Pushed too far, Woyzeck resorts to violence.

During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to destroy and hold a strategic bridge in order to delay the Japanese forces and allow Gen. MacArthur time to secure Bataan. When the Japanese soldiers begin to rebuild the bridge and advance, the group struggles with not only hunger, sickness and gunfire, but also the knowledge that there is likely no relief on the way.

CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence. These factions find form in the struggle between Hiram Abiff or the Architect ...

Denne klassiske satire har grevinden (spillet af Peter Sellers) og statsministeren (igen Peter Sellers) i det lille hertugdømme Grand Fenwick udtænkt en genial plan for at redde deres land fra at gå konkurs - at gå i krig med USA, tabe og så modtage en masse amerikansk genopbygningsstøtte. Problemet er bare, at de ikke har fortalt lederen (Peter Sellers nok engang) af invasionsstyrkerne, at det er meningen, at han skal tabe.

Follows high school teacher Seiji Hasumi's background history and in the process depicts the horror inherent in daily life.

In the Windy City, the mob infiltrates a powerful union.