What action there is in this downplayed drama stems from the homoerotic tensions generated by the enrolment of a beautiful young samurai into the Shinsengumi Militia, a school famous for its strict discipline code, and the period setting of late 19th Century Japan is effectively used to evoke the extreme secrecy that any kind of institutional homosexuality was forced to exist in. The swordplay provides a welcome interval between the desperate (and often sad) sex scenes, showing the samurai tende find out more...

The heroes are back; Chapter One 'Four Months Later...'; Claire, HRG and family try to lie low in their new town, Matt and Mohinder are now guardians of Molly, Kaito and Angela receive death notices, Nathan is in a very dark place, Peter is alive and in Ireland. find out more...

Chapter Five 'Fight or Flight'; Peter denies his past, Parkman and Nathan go to Philadelphia to hunt down Matt's father and Mohindar takes Molly to the Company. find out more...

Chapter Nine: Cautionary Tales; Hiro learns of his father's death, Matt realizes that he has the ability to put thoughts in other people's minds and Bob and Suresh kidnap Claire. find out more...

It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...

From the director of Oscar-nominated The Twilight Samurai. Set in then mid-19th century, at the time when guns are taking over from swords, Yoji Yamada's tale is an exploration of Samurai ethics and forbidden love. find out more...

A low-ranking samurai leads a life without glory as a bureaucrat in the mid-19th Century. A widower with two daughters and a senile mother, he must work in the fields to make ends meet. New prospects seem to open up when Tomoe, his long-time love, divorces her brutal husband. However, even as the Japanese feudal system is unraveling, Seibei remains bound by the code of honour of the samurai and is forced to duel with a recalcitrant clan member who refuses to commit suicide. He's forced to face t find out more...