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The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On
Japanese Movie - 19878.0
This documentary was five years in the making, and revolves around 62-year-old Okuzaki Kenzo, a survivor of the battlefields of New Guinea in World War II who gained notoriety by slingshooting steel pinballs at Emperor…
The Sea Knows
Korean Movie - 19617.8
A Korean man, forced into service in the Japanese army during WWII, marries his Japanese girlfriend despite everyone's objections. Later, he becomes the sole survivor when the Americans attack. (Source: IMDb)
The Portrait
Filipino Movie - 20177.6
In a musical tale about standing together against materialism, two impoverished sisters anguish over whether or not to sell a painting, the final masterpiece by their recluse father. A bitter struggle for survival against…
Ruten no Ouhi: Saigo no Koutei
Japanese Special - 2003, 2 episodes7.7
A Japanese woman from the nobility chosen to be married off to the younger brother of the last emperor of China. Turbulent destiny awaited the couple as the World War II approached to Manchukuo.
The New Snow Leopard
Chinese Drama - 2014, 46 episodes7.6
The story recounts the experiences of Zhou Wen, a graduate of Whampoa Military Academy for rich kids. After killing Japanese that was there at that time he was captured and sentenced to death, but due to the fact that…
Hagoku
Japanese Special - 2017, 1 episodes7.7
One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cell in Akita Prison. He forces open the glass window and breaks out of jail. This crime even reaches the ears of Urata…
Intimates
Hong Kong Movie - 19977.8
Set in Hong Kong and China in the early 1900s, an older Wan and Wai travel through China in search of Foon, Wan's true love. Wai, whose on-and-off status with her boyfriend leads her into a struggle with self-identity,…
One Sword Sweeps All
Chinese Drama - 2019, 40 episodes7.4
It tells the story of three members of the Shengjia Troupe, which is a famous Beijing Opera Troupe in Huabei. It follows their road to revenge and assimilation to the war of resistance. During the 1930s, the Shengjia…
Akiko's Piano
Japanese Special - 2020, 1 episodes7.8
1940, Kawamoto Akiko lives in Hiroshima with her father and mother, Genkichi and Shizuko, as well as her two younger brothers. Akiko loves playing her favorite piano. As the war situation worsens, she is busy helping…
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
Japanese Movie - 20217.8
A story that contains the lonely and fierce daily life of Onoda Hiroo. He worked as an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer during World War II. When World War II ended, Onoda, who was stationed on Lubang Island…
Twice
Japanese Movie - 20107.6
Tsutomu Yamaguchi is a hibakusha. A survivor of both atomic bomb blasts in 1945. First at Hiroshima, then again at Nagasaki. How does one man survive one of the worst tragedies in human history – twice? Now nearing…
Purple Sunset
Chinese Movie - 20018.3
A Soviet Russian lady officer, a Chinese peasant, and a Japanese schoolgirl must walk their way out of a forest toward the end of World War II, despite their mutual distrust of one another. (Source: IMDb)
Fires on the Plain
Japanese Movie - 19597.7
An agonizing portrait of desperate Japanese soldiers stranded in a strange land during World War II, a compelling descent into psychological and physical oblivion. Denied hospital treatment for tuberculosis and cast…
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Japanese Movie - 19707.5
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. “Tora! Tora! Tora!”, named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot…
Childhood Days
Japanese Movie - 19907.6
Shinji (a young boy evacuated from Tokyo) and his new schoolmates (who are villagers) don’t exactly know what is going on in the war. They see the B-29 bombers, but the problems of being separated from one’s mother…
Japan's Longest Day
Japanese Movie - 19677.5
Depicting the time period from August 14, 1945 at noon until August 15. It depicted the Emperor and the cabinet as they decide to surrender and the subsequent radio broadcast announcing the decision to the Japanese public.
Yamato
Japanese Movie - 20057.5
Japan's newfound love for nationalistic military thrillers continues on apace with this moving true story of the crew of doomed warship, the Yamato. On April 6, 1945, the largest battleship ever constructed, and its…
The Wandering Princess
Japanese Movie - 19607.5
A Japanese woman is chosen to marry the younger brother of the “puppet” Emperor of Manchuria during that region’s occupation by Japan in the 1930s and early 1940s. Machiko Kyo stars in this characteristically complex…
Sunset at Chaophraya
Thai Movie - 19957.5
The story of endless love is set amidst the fiercest conflict this world has ever know-World War II. As war is about to break out in Europe, Wanut is on his way to England to join the Free Thai movement. He hopes to…
Oba: The Last Samurai
Japanese Movie - 20117.5
Based on the autobiographical novel "Oba, the Last Samurai" by U.S. soldier Don Jones. Set during the end of WWII, Captain Oba and his group of 47 soldiers on the isle of Saipan fights against the U.S. army long after…
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