An inventor builds a homemade spacecraft, and uses it to have various adventures, including peeping at women, visiting ‘human’ planets, and becoming involved in intergalactic warfare.

A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a liberated woman who does whatever she wants, including smoking. She even convinces Koyima to take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada, one of his students, to take her home. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home.

Go, Go, Second Time Virgin is the story of two damned and abused teenagers who meet and fall in mutant love on a Tokyo rooftop. Their only hope is to cement their love with an escape into oblivion.

In Chain, actual malls, theme parks, hotels and corporate centers worldwide are joined into a monolithic superlandscape that shapes and circumscribes the lives of two women. One is a businesswoman researching the international theme park industry for her company. The other is a young drifter, illegally living and occasionally working in a shopping mall.

The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during the war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant.

The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.

A tragedy strikes a young woman's life without warning or reason. She continues living while searching for meaning in a lonely world.

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

Pred šedťdesiatjeden rokmi sa na Iwo Jima stretli americká a japonská armáda. O niekoľko desaťročí neskôr bolo v lávovej pôde ostrova objavených niekoľko stoviek listov. Tieto listy zrazu dávajú anonymným šíkom bojujúcich vojakov tváre a hlasy. Japonskí vojaci, ktorí sú odvelení na Iwo Jima, si uvedomujú, že pravdepodobnosť návratu z bojového poľa je mizivá. Veliteľom obrany je generál Tadamichi Kuribayashi, ktorého cesty po Amerike mu ukázali nemilosrdnou tvár vojny, ale viedli ho aj k pochopeniu toho, ako Američanom v Tichomorí zabrániť v ďalšej expanzii. Vďaka Kuribayashiho nevídanej taktike sa boje, ktoré si Američania predstavovali ako rýchlu a krvavú porážku, pretiahli na štyridsať dní hrdinskej a vynaliezavej obrany. Podarilo sa to aj kvôli tomu, že Kuribayashiho bojovníci dokonale zvládli orientáciu v priestore vulkanického ostrova ...

Slavná legenda o hrstce odvážných, kteří se postavili na stranu bezbranných. Nejslavnější japonský film všech dob, předchůdce filmu Sedm statečných. Těžko by se asi hledal někdo, kdo by neznal legendární americký western o hrstce statečných, kteří se v počtu chabých sedmi postaví přesile banditů, aby ochránili bezbrannou vesnici na odlehlém venkově proti rabování. Western Johna Sturgese patří již téměř půl století k nesmrtelným filmovým evergreenům. Ale jen málokdo ví, že by vůbec nevznikl, nebýt jednoho fenomenálního režiséra, jehož originální umění přesáhlo daleko za hranice rodného Japonska. Že dobrodružný příběh sedmi potulných pistolníků byl přímo inspirován samurajským filmem Akiry Kurosawy, jenž se odehrává ve feudálním Japonsku 16. století. A že to zdaleka není jediný případ amerického hitu inspirovaného dílem tohoto japonského klasika.

Biely mladík Jimmy Smith z chudobnej, prevažne černošskej štvrti Detroitu sa pretĺka biednym životom. Pracuje ako obyčajný robotník v továrni, tehotná priateľka sa s ním rozišla a pretože nemá kde bývať, musí sa nasťahovať späť do karavanu, kde býva jeho matka so svojím priateľom, ktorý ho nenávidí. Jeho jedinou radosťou aj vecou, pre ktorú má talent, je rap. Na popud kamoša sa skúsi zúčastniť "battle" pred davom v miestnom rapovom klube. Lenže cesta k rešpektu a snáď aj možnosti obrátiť svoj život je nielen tŕnistá, ale aj neľútostná. Eminem nechcel natočiť vyložene autobiografický príbeh, ale iba do rozprávania zapracovať málo prepojené so svojimi začiatkami pred érou masovej popularity.

Harry Potter prežíva ako sirota neradostné detstvo. Blížia sa však jeho jedenáste narodeniny a vtedy mu obor Hagrid vyjaví tajomstvo jeho života: Harry je totiž čarodejník! Vzápätí v čarodejnom svete nastáva veľký rozruch - chlapec, ktorý už ako batoľa porazil mocného pána zla, ktorého meno sa každý bojí vysloviť, sa totiž konečne vydáva na cestu, ktorá mu bola predurčená.

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.