Kaori Momoi

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord.

Dir. Akira Kurosawa · With Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara

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.

Dir. Rob Marshall · With Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh

Top model Lilico, having recently undergone multiple cosmetic surgeries, begins to experience troubling side effects. As she desperately tries to retain her perfect image, Lilico descends into a world of nightmares and makes those around her miserable.

Dir. Mika Ninagawa · With Erika Sawajiri, Nao Omori, Shinobu Terajima

Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.

Dir. Takashi Miike · With Kazuya Nakayama, Kaori Momoi, Ryuhei Matsuda

A nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to join, chooses his own path.

Dir. Takashi Miike · With Hideaki Ito, Koichi Sato, Yūsuke Iseya

A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.

Dir. Udayan Prasad · With William Hurt, Maria Bello, Kristen Stewart

As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.

Dir. Peter Webber · With Matthew Fox, Tommy Lee Jones, Eriko Hatsune