 | NOVA - SECRETS OF THE SAMURAI SWORD takes an in depth look at the history of the Katana, a curved long sword traditionally used by the Japanese military from the 1600s. Samurai believed that their sword represented their soul and considered them as... |
 | AUDITION is an art-house cult horror film that will be talked about for a long time to come. Ryo Ishibashi stars as Aoyama, a single father who has not dated since his wife died seven years earlier. To help find another woman to bring joy into... |
 | Set on Mars in the year 2071, COWBOY BEBOP: THE MOVIE is based on the much-loved animated television series by Japanese director Shinichiro Watanabe. (The show airs on the Cartoon Network in the U.S.) As the film begins, Spike (Steven Jay Blum) and... |
 | This fast-paced action vehicle for Steven Seagal stars the muscle-bound hero as Travis Hunter, a former American special agent who was raised by the Yakuza. When the governor of Tokyo is murdered, Hunter is called upon to investigate; forced to... |
 | BABEL is the crowning achievement in the trilogy from the unstoppable creative pairing of screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga and director Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu, which also includes AMORES PERROS (2000) and 21 GRAMS (2003). Building upon its... |
 | This anime series takes place in a grim near-future where cyborgs defend the world from terrorism. Set in the same universe as the classic film, GHOST IN THE SHELL: STAND ALONE COMPLEX centers on a gorgeous cyborg agent. When an old enemy resurfaces,... |
 | In 1929, a poor fisherman sells his nine-year-old daughter to an elite geisha house in Kyoto. So begins the remarkable first-person account of how the lovely child, Chiyo, became the accomplished and much sought-after geisha Sayuri, with the help of... |
 | This animated Japanese film from Rintaro (X) and Katsuhiro Otomo (AKIRA), based on the 1949 manga by Osamu Tezuka, takes place in the futuristic city of Metropolis. A struggle between the robots and the human population of the city, who once... |
 | Set in a world where witches who abuse their considerable powers are becoming increasingly problematic, WITCH HUNTER ROBIN follows the group known as STN, a team of craft-users formed to combat these rogue witches. This group's most powerful member,... |
 | Arthur Golden's blockbuster bestseller, MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, has been brilliantly brought to the big screen by Oscar-nominated director Rob Marshall (CHICAGO). The film opens in a remote Japanese fishing village in 1929, where two sisters, Chiyo and... |
