Throne of Blood er baseret på Shakespeares skuespil Macbeth, men den er så meget mere end bare en almindelig adaptation af det berømte stykke. Historien udspiller sig i Japan under samuraiernes storhedstid. Vi følger en hærleder, som på grund sin kones magtbegær lader sig overtale til at myrde lederen af den selvsamme klan, som han er medlem af. Den slags forræderi betaler sig sjældent, så der går ikke lang tid, før klanens øvrige divisioner rejser sig mod ham, og det hele bliver en kamp om, hvem der nu skal besidde tronen og bestyre klanen.

En meget velhavende forretningsmand, Gondo, spillet af Toshiro Mifune, bliver en dag kontaktet af en gruppe kidnappere, som kræver løsesum for Gondos søn. Summen er af en sådan størrelse, at den vil ruinere Gondo. Men så opdager han, at forbryderne ved en fejltagelse har kidnappet hans chaufførs søn. Dette stiller Gondo i et svært dilemma. Skal han betale for en anden mands barn, når han nu selv har sit på det tørre?

Under en gigantisk, faldefærdig port i udkanten af 1100-tallets Kyoto har en præst, en skovhugger og en dagdriver søgt tilflugt fra den silende regn. Præsten og skovhuggeren har forinden vidnet i en retssag omkring mordet på en mand og voldtægten af hans hustru i en nærliggende skov. Mens de venter på, at vejret skal klare op, diskuterer de tre mænd den sælsomme process, hvor ingen af førstehåndsvidnernes forklaringer syntes at korrespondere med hinanden. Historien om, hvad der fandt sted i skoven, genfortælles på skift af banditten Tajomaru, kvinden, et medie repræsenterende den afdøde mand samt af skovhuggeren

Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise of fascism in Japan and becomes involved with two of his students.

Shikichi og Tomi forlader deres landsby for at besøge deres voksne børn i Tokyo: Koichi, som er læge med egen praksis, og Shige, som driver en skønhedssalon. Selvom de ikke ses ofte, virker børnene ikke ovenud begejstrede for forældrenes besøg. I et travlt storbyliv har de ikke engang tid til at vise dem rundt i byen. Den eneste, der tager sig tid til forældrene, er Noriko, deres afdøde søns kone.

I den 16. århundredes Japan narre krigsherre Shingen Takeda fjenden ved at bruge tyven Kagemusha som dobbeltgænger. Alligvel bliver Shingen myrdet, men for at undgå kaos og nederlag bliver Kagemusha tvunget til at overtage den døde krigsherre identitet og ansvar.

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.

A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.

Jackie is a CCTV operator. One day, a man shows his face on her monitor, a man she hoped never to see again. Now she has no choice and is compelled to confront him.

A married couple living in a desolate small town in post-WWII China are paid a surprise visit by an old friend of the husband's.

José Sirgado is a low-budget filmmaker whose heroin addiction distorts his perspective of the real world. Although he is a depressed and unstable individual, his mood improves when he receives the mysterious films of Pedro, with whom he shares his passion for cinema.

Set in Italy during the 1920s, a barber is in a wheelchair because of a psychosomatic illness after he lost the woman he loves.

A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.

Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing. Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover is dying and must decide to let them reunite. Jean is a controversial career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life.

A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. Treating himself in secret and tormented by his conscience, he rejects his heartbroken fiancée without explanation.

A jaded prima ballerina reminisces about her first love affair after she is unexpectedly sent her lover's old diary.

After his negligence causes an innocent woman to go to jail, a lawyer and his colleagues work to clear her name.

Set in the holy city of Benares, this is the second film about the detective Feluda, who goes on a holiday with his cousin, Topshe, and his friend, Lalmohan Ganguly. But the theft of a priceless deity of Lord Ganesh (the Elephant God) from a local household forces him to investigate.

Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. They manage to have many small adventures, especially because Masako's optimism and belief in dreams is able to lift Yuzo from his realistic despair.

After a Vietnamese woman dies in a car crash in Saigon, her brother-in-law and her young son transport her body back to the former’s hometown in rural Vietnam, where they plan to give her a funeral.