In the 1860s, when Japan is still closed to foreigners, Herve Joncour, a young French merchant, makes a series of clandestine journeys across Siberia to Japan, at first to purchase silkworm eggs, and later to pursue an affair with a Japanese nobleman’s concubine. Reissue. (A Picturehouse Entertainment film, written by François Girard & Michael Golding, directed by François Girard, releasing Fall 2007, starring Koji Yakusho, Alfred Molina, Michael Pitt, & Keira Knightley) (Historical Fiction)