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A young Japanese aristocrat falls in love with the wrong woman in pre-war Tokyo, and the rigid codes of beauty and duty destroy them both.
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Thousand Cranes
At a tea ceremony held by his late father's mistress, Kikuji is offered a bride, and begins an affair with another of his father's former lovers, Mrs Ota.
The Tale of Genji
The loves and losses of Genji, the dazzling son of an emperor reduced to commoner rank, unfold across the Heian court in what is often called the world's first novel, before the story passes to his heirs.
Snow Country
A Tokyo dilettante travels to a hot-spring town in snow country to visit his geisha lover, and the cold landscape mirrors the impossibility of their connection.
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
A young monk becomes so obsessed with the beauty of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto that he decides to destroy it.
Strait Is the Gate
Jérôme loves his cousin Alissa from childhood, and she loves him, but her piety and her conviction that love must reach for something higher keep pushing him away.
Tender Is the Night
An American couple on the French Riviera watches their marriage disintegrate under the weight of alcoholism, infidelity, and the impossibility of recovering the past.
The Age of Innocence
A man in 1870s New York is torn between a conventional fiancée and a scandalous countess, and the society that constrains his choice also defines who he is.
Victoria
Johannes, the miller's son, has loved Victoria, the daughter of the manor, since childhood, and when he comes back a famous poet the gulf of class is still between them.
The Beautiful and Damned
A glamorous New York couple drinks and drifts their way through the Jazz Age while waiting for a grandfather's inheritance.
Dream of the Red Chamber
Jia Baoyu, the sensitive heir of a great aristocratic family in eighteenth-century China, grows up among his cousins in a vast garden, as love, ambition and debt bring the household down.
Tar Baby
A successful Black model visiting her wealthy white patrons on a Caribbean island meets a drifter who upends her sense of self.
Jenny
In Rome, Jenny Winge, a twenty-eight-year-old Norwegian painter, accepts a proposal from a younger admirer she doesn't love, and back home in Kristiania his father comes into her life.