In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for “papelles”, futuristic passports that record people’s identities and genetics. Gold falls for…

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that…

Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets and gets into bed with in Paris, Marieke, turns out to be an…