William Holden, Nancy Kwan, Sylvia Syms. Directed by Richard Quine. An American artist and a Chinese prostitute find true love on the streets of Hong Kong. Based on the novel by Richard Mason.... more
In this Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Film (1994), little things mean a lot in the world of 10-year-old Mui, a girl who's trained to be a house servant in 1950s Vietnam. As Mui grows up in... more
Tamlyn Tomita, Lisa Lu. The uplifting story of four Chinese women who live extraordinary lives—and the hopes and dreams they hold for their American-born children. Directed by Wayne Wang.... more
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Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Elizabeth Shue. A determined young teenager gets karate and life lessons from an aging Japanese handyman. 1984/color/127 min/PG/widescreen.
Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho, Toshie Negishi. Eight mythical, dreamlike vignettes thematically united by their concern with man's relationship to nature tell stories of animal weddings, ghosts of... more
Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama. The patients at a poor medical clinic and a sharp but overbearing doctor teach an enthusiastic young intern hard lessons about the true meaning of practicing medicine. In... more
Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita. In this sequel, Daniel and Mr. Miyagi encounter more karate adventures when they travel to Okinawa for a big tournament. 1986/color/113 min/PG/widescreen.
The late Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu directed 53 films over the course of his career; these are some the finest from his artistic prime. Includes Early Spring (Haruko Sugimura. 1956/145 min.),... more
Toshiro Mifune. His father's mysterious death on the job prompts a man to seek revenge against the powerful construction company that employed him. In Japanese with english subtitles. 1960/b&w/151... more
Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara. Ozu's moving masterpiece finds generational conflict within a post-WWII Japanese family. An elderly couple travels to Tokyo from their small fishing village to visit their... more
Critically acclaimed effort from Wong Kar-Wai ("Chungking Express"), set in Hong Kong in 1962 and centering on newspaper reporter Tony Leung and executive assistant Maggie Cheung, two married people... more
Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko. The renowned director, Akira Kurosawa, combines poetic imagery and complex flashbacks to tell the story of a man who vows to make his final days meaningful after he... more
Years before Akira Kurosawa changed the face of cinema with such iconic works as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, and Yojimbo, he made his start in the Japanese film industry with four popular and... more
In 1970, Yukio Mishima (Ken Ogata)-postwar Japan's most estimable man of letters, and a fervent nationalist-led four members of his personal militia in a raid upon a Tokyo army base in a bid to... more
Often called the Godard of the East, Japanese director Nagisa Oshima was one of the most provocative film artists of the twentieth century, and his works challenged and shocked the cinematic world... more
Nianzhen Wu, Issey Ogata. Edward Yang's epic covering the one-year examination of daily life in Taipei for a family of five (parents, two children and a grandmother) that begins with a wedding and... more
Yukio Mishima's only film tells the story of a naval officer's ritual suicide-eerily presaging the novelist's own death by seppuku years later. If such parallels weren't enough, the officer is played... more
A stunning drama about a ginza bar hostess as she approaches the perilous age of 30. Director Mikio Naruse Star Hideko Taka mine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masayuki Mori Special Features: Widescreen,... more
A peerless chronicler of the soul who specialized in supremely emotional, visually exquisite films about the circumstances of women in Japanese society throughout it's history, Kenji Mizoguchi had... more
Jason Scott Lee, Lauren Holly. The true story of martial-arts legend and kung fu film star Bruce Lee, whose dynamic career was cut short when he died at age 33. 1993/color/120 min/PG-13/widescreen.
Emmanuele Riva, Eiji Okada. A French movie actress and a Japanese architect engage in a steamy affair shortly after the end of WWII. While together and in an effort to bury the past, they manage to... more
Machiko Kyo, Mitsuko Mito, Kinuyo Tanaka. Two peasants in war-torn 16th-century Japan abandon their families to seek their fortunes in the spoils of war. In attaining his goal, each man destroys his... more
The great Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu (Late Spring) is best known for the stately, meditative domestic dramas he made after World War II. But during his first decade at Shochiku studios, where he... more
ECLIPSE SERIES 28: THE WARPED WORLD OF KOREYOSHI KURAHARA features the films INDIMIDATION (1960), THE WARPED ONES (1960), I HATE BUT LOVE (1962), BLACK SUN (1964) and THIRST FOR LOVE (1967).