While young Sanshiro is enrolled in a jujitsu school, he also secretly studies the more spiritual art of judo.

Derives from Noh and Kabuki plays depicting a famous twelfth-century incident in which the lord Yoshitsune and a small group of samurai cross enemy territory disguised as monks and must persuade border guards to let them through.

A look inside the notoriously insular Studio Ghibli, a production company known for its animated films. Follows director Hayao Miyazaki, producer Toshio Suzuki, and director Isao Takahata for a year as the studio rushes to complete two films, Miyazaki's The Wind Rises and Takahata's The Tale of the Princess Kaguya.

After learning that she will be sharing the summer with her father's new girlfriend, a young girl invites some friends to join her at her aunt's house instead. With a sick aunt, a bloodthirsty cat, and evil spirits lurking around, the girls find that it might have been better to stay at home.

A complex crime thriller in which a wealthy Japanese shoe manufacturer's chauffeur's son is kidnapped in mistake for his own, and he faces a moral dilemma.

An epic study of athletes struggling to excel against their own bodies and against each other. Kon Ichikawa used 164 cameramen and over 100 cameras to show the humanity of the competitors-- the tears of the Japanese women volleyball champions, the bellow of the hammer throwers, the pain of the collapsed marathon runner and the solitude of the loser, finishing his lap, picking up his sweats and leaving the field.

After helping take down Godzilla, biologist Dr. Nick Tatopoulos stumbles upon his hatching, who bonds with the scientist as a parental figure. Recruiting his own enviornmentally directed research outfit HEAT (humanitarian Enviornmental Analysis Team) Nick sets out to study not only this new generation, but also to investigate the increasing reports of monsters of all types and other environmental anomalies menacing the earth.

Rupan III, master thief, battles Inspector Zenigata of Interpol once again as a ninja of the Fuma Clan disturbs a traditional Japanese wedding by kidnapping the bride and demanding the key to a hidden treasure. The groom, however, is a master swordsman named Goemon and the groom's best friend is Rupan III.

Near the end of World War II, moments after learning of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, a super secret Japanese submarine has a fatal encounter with its American counterpart and both are lost to history. Now, some fifty years later, the descendants of the submarine officers are part a special UN task force sent to investigate the unusual phenomenon which have recently begun occurring in Antarctica. Faced with a mysterious black cylinder and the deadly...

Revolving around the changing of the seasons, The Makioka Sisters follows the lives of four sisters who have taken on their family's kimono manufacturing business, over the course of a number of years leading up to the Pacific War. A graceful study of a family at a turning point in history, and a poignant evocation of changing times and fading customs.