Movies: Adaptation

In the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong friendship, suddenly hated each other and face many obstacles. Adapted from Shugoro Yamamoto novel....

Goto Tamiko starred in TV commercials and her father, Keisuke, was a powerful financier who is now fallen on hard times. Tamiko wants to marry her boyfriend Sanpei, an aspiring composer, but her father wants her to marry a young company president....

On the outskirts of Tokyo, a family of Mitsu Nakahara lives in one of the small huts surrounded by barracks and tin pens. Mitsu's husband died in the war, and she was left alone with four children and works as a day laborer. The eldest daughter Haruk...

Based on the short story by Stephen King, follow the morning delivery routine of the neighborhood's favorite milkman....

Based on Victor Hugo's novel, a poor man is sent to prison after stealing a loaf of bread. He escapes and becomes rich, but this does not protect him from people's disdain as they know where he came from....

A young peasant is forced to flee for killing involuntarily an abusive guard. After an entire year hiding in a remote fishing island, he decides to return to his countryside and reunite with his wife and daughters....

A young prince's epic journey of love, obsession and betrayal...

A sophisticated heartthrob tries to woo the woman of his dreams, only to be met with rejection....

This darkly grotesque drama unfolds on multiple paths. The tangible one, now cruel, now crazy, along which the nomadic actor "Dad Mour", his wife "Mum" and two sons try to return home, but also the imaginary one, even more, tortuous and dusty, on whi...

An adaptation of the 1869 novel ‘The Idiot’ by Fyodor Dostoevsky....

When a fleet of mysterious spaceships attacks Dream Land, Kirby embarks on a nerve-shattering journey into deep space and confronts his ultimate nightmare…the diabolical eNeMeE. Can Kirby defeat the dark force of eNeMeE’s malevolent mindscape, or wil...

When a young actress goes to a secluded house to immerse herself in a challenging role, she begins to unravel....

Based on the story by Stephen King, Rainy Season follows a young couple who arrive in the small town of Willow, ME....

Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's bill and gave up going to high school. His friends heard about this, and they donated money to his mot...

In this short film by Norman McLaren, dancers enact the Greek tragedy of Narcissus, the beautiful youth whose excessive self-love condemned him to a trapped existence. Skilfully merging film, dance and music, the film is a compendium of the technique...

Dedication is the story of a maid working in a hotel in the 1940's who uses a black magic spell in the hopes of harnessing the talent of one of the hotel's frequent guests - an eccentric writer - and passing it on to her unborn son. She also suffers ...

One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming....

The head of the Kimberly household rules it with an iron fist. Unfortunately the head of the Kimberly household isn't Grant (J.H. Gilmore), the father and wealthy Wall Street magnate -- it's his spoiled, headstrong daughter Catherine (Virginia Pearso...

A frightening man confronts a vulnerable prisoner left to die in jail after a virus wipes out 95% of the human population....

Three robbers plan to break into the house of a mysterious old sailor to steal his gold. They soon find out that the old man is not as defenseless as they once thought....