Savage Messiah

Hattie, a New Orleans prostitute, meets a photographer named Bellocq at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her...

An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.

On one gloomy rainy night, a writer encounters an unexpected visit paid by a woman of his past. Seeking solitude from her ex-lover, she finds solace...

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to...

The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.

In this story the hero is haunted by a beautiful young woman who tries to stab him to death with a knife. This fantasy recurs on each of his...

An indentured Chinese laborer, brought to Japan to work in a coal mine during WWII, manages to escape his captors. He hides out in the Japanese...

Overwhelmed by a world he can no longer control, a quarrelsome worker in his fifties tries to preserve the integrity of his neighbourhood...

Through the experiences of two women in Paris and London, Ghost Dance offers an analysis of the complexity of our conceptions of ghosts, memory and...

A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.