Yearning

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs — Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vic

Street of Shame — The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostit

Eat Drink Man Woman — Retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu lives in modern day Taipei, with his three attractive daughters, all of whom

The Man Who Stole the Sun — A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But

Cat Days — Jiro, a little boy, feels sick. His father takes him to the doctor. She diagnoses a harmless condition, but it shakes th

Two in the Shadow — A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a