Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American...

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own mark in the world.

The Real Story of Fake Democracy. Filmed over three years in five countries, FREEDOM FOR THE WOLF is an epic investigation into the new regime of...

A cursed dancer and a blind musician — both ostracized by society — become business partners and inseparable friends as their...

As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is called upon to judge the most difficult case...

Near the end of the shogunate in Japan, Katsura Shogoro and his fellow samurai from the southwestern domain of Choshu enter the dojo of Saito Yakuro,...

How the Japanese process American pop culture and make it their own -- a mind-bending odyssey through cultural mixing.

Two thousand years ago, at the dawn of the first century, the ancient world was ruled by Rome. Through the experiences, memories and writings of the...

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eventually becomes one of the primary influences...

From a small Italian community in 15th-century Florence, the Medici family would rise to rule Europe in many ways. Using charm, patronage, skill,...