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.

The tension is palpable, the excitement is mounting and the heady scent of competition is in the air as hundreds of eager contestants from across...

A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord...

Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, in his latest film production, a...

In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute,...

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

The best must be the freshest. The best sake also follows the same principle to brew in which it needs the best and freshest raw materials, and also...

A young woman in traditional Japanese attire fixes her hair and kimono while her servants assist her.

Women getting onto a rickshaw.

This Traveltalk visit to Japan starts with a look at the country's cherry blossom trees, tulips, and ubiquitous gardens. We then see the proper...