Hero of Alishan
This 1927 film from Tomotaka Tasaka was shot in Taiwan and features an indigenous youth. Produced for Nikkatsu.
This 1927 film from Tomotaka Tasaka was shot in Taiwan and features an indigenous youth. Produced for Nikkatsu.
This 1927 film from Tomotaka Tasaka was shot in Taiwan and features an indigenous youth. Produced for Nikkatsu.
Munro, a soldier turned lay preacher, comes to New Zealand to minister to the first British colonists, but he is converted by the powerful chief Maianui to serve a different purpose.
Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not have imagined that it would not only unlock the long-held secrets of Chiyoko’s life... but also his own.
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.
A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.
Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.
A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.
A Marine must do whatever it takes to save his kidnapped sister and stop a terrorist attack masterminded by a radical militia group.
In 1863, when American warships approach Japan, an enigmatic ronin becomes an important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and the empire.
A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.