Watch Hiroshima Mon Amour

A man, a woman and a baroque hotel where nothing can be pinned down; the most argued-over puzzle film.

A painter is hired to paint a bride in secret on a Breton island in 1770.

Two aristocrats play seduction as a game by letter, in the last decade before the guillotine.

Quasimodo, Esmeralda and the cathedral Hugo wrote the book to save.

A French girl and a Chinese man in colonial Saigon; Duras at 70 remembering.

Watch the movie Lost in Translation, a film about two Americans forming a connection in Tokyo

A delinquent and a girl on the hill; the visual novel people cry over.

A Tokyo dilettante and a geisha at a hot-spring town; Kawabata's Nobel novel.