Director Miho Niikura examines the modern practice of tee (Okinawan karate), and its attractiveness to Westerners—some of whom travel thousands...

The story follows the "father and son", actor Teruyuki Kagawa and his father, Kabuki grandee Ennosuke Ichikawa III (now Enno II, 73), who were once...

Each home has a built in pool or water tank that lies partly inside, partly outside its’ walls… A continuous stream of spring water is...

Japanese TV documentary about Andrei Tarkovsky The Japanese (NHK) documentary "Tarkovsky: A Journey to His Beginning", presented here, was first...

One summer, under the bright sky, the boy Akira rushes about Finland on a journey. This production has the beautiful, invigorating tones of a fairy...

71-year-old diver Fujita Hisao has spent 40 years drawing attention to the beauty of ocean life, particularly the graceful sea lions, which face...

The vast east African savannah is the only place in the world where "big cats" -- lions, leopards and cheetahs -- can be seen in a single location....

The diary of Takuya Ogushi, a 18 years old Japanese, who begins his new life as a sumo wrestler.

When NATO troops withdrew from Afghanistan, the Afghan National Army (ANA) took over control of Helmand Province, an extremely dangerous region where...

Third in the River series, the Danube. The works of this trilogy feature stories about rivers linking three themes: rivers, sound, and human...

Installed at the heart of Japanese society when the country was in a state of collapse after World War II, and then launched on a frantic course to...

Pulitzer Prize -- winning journalist John Hersey caused a sensation when he published "Hiroshima", the first account for American readers of the...

Japan's Vocaloid culture is currently experiencing a boom in popularity worldwide. We examine why people are drawn to the voice synthesis technology...

When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or...

Honey O'Donahue, a small-town private investigator, delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church.

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren take on one last terrifying case involving mysterious entities they must confront.

The Demon Slayer Corps are drawn into the Infinity Castle, where Tanjiro, Nezuko, and the Hashira face terrifying Upper Rank demons in a desperate...

Xander Cage is your standard adrenaline junkie with no fear and a lousy attitude. When the US Government "recruits" him to go on a mission, he's not...

When a titan music mogul, widely known as having the "best ears in the business", is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death...

Superman, a journalist in Metropolis, embarks on a journey to reconcile his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as Clark Kent.

Racing legend Sonny Hayes is coaxed out of retirement to lead a struggling Formula 1 team—and mentor a young hotshot driver—while chasing...