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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Japanese Movie - 19598.2
Kaji lost his exemption from military service by protecting Chinese prisoners from unjust punishment, has now been conscripted into the Japanese Kwantung Army. Under suspicion of leftist sympathies, Kaji is assigned…
Yakusoku no Stage
Japanese Special - 2019, 1 episodes7.8
20-year-old Ozawa Tsubasa has been helping out in the eatery that her mother Yukiko runs in a port town in the Tohoku region. She loves songs and secretly wishes to become a singer. However, she is on the verge of giving…
Children of Hiroshima
Japanese Movie - 19527.5
Post war Hiroshima: It's been four years since the last time she visited her hometown. Takako faces the after effects of the A-bomb when she travels around the city to call on old friends.
Jun-chan no Ouen-ka
Japanese Drama - 1988, 151 episodes7.5
The 41th NHK Asadora. The year is 1947, August. Ono Junko's family is being evacuated to Wakayama and the father is going to war. A few years later, the father has returned from Manchuria but he also brought a boy that…
Story of a Prostitute
Japanese Movie - 19657.4
Film directed by Suzuki Seijun tells the story of a prostitute Harumi who was working in Manchuria during Sino-Japanese war. She found there love which took her to the end.
The Catch
Japanese Movie - 19617.0
Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their "catch". (Source: IMDb)
Suzuran
Japanese Drama - 1999, 156 episodes8.4
The 60th NHK Asadora Drama is Suzuran. Locations include Hokkaido Numata and Tokyo. Beginning in 1924, a time when both steam engine trains and early Showa Era's first train stations are just beginning. In the waiting…
Hiroshima Showa Nijuunen Hachigatsu Muika
Japanese Special - 2005, 1 episodes8.0
The story is narrated by Yajima Toshiaki at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. A story during the summer of 1945 (60 years earlier). At one time a row of shophouses and private homes lined the vicinity. That was where…
Hiroshima
Japanese Movie - 19538.0
Brilliant retelling of the Day in Hiroshima the day the bomb dropped. A bit heavy handed at times, yet extremely realistic (source: IMDb)
Yunagi City, Sakura Country
Japanese Movie - 20077.9
Thirteen years afterwards, I wonder if those who bombed Hiroshima are looking at me and saying: 'We did it! We were able to kill another person!' They should be," murmurs Minami, one of the two leading female characters…
The Day's Organ
Japanese Movie - 20198.0
Set towards the end of World War II, Itakura Kaede, who leads kindergartners, and Nonomiya Mitsue, who enjoys music, persuade the parents at the school to take their children out of Tokyo. They seek shelter at an abandoned…
When Will You Return?
Japanese Movie - 20177.9
Ashimura Tomoko types on a computer her memory of her late husband Goro, but she then succumbs to a disease. Her grandchild Osamu then begins to collect her memoirs. He learns about the love between his grandparents…
Twenty-Four Eyes
Japanese Movie - 19547.9
The movie follows the career of a schoolteacher named Hisako Oishi in Shodoshima during the rise and fall of Japanese ultra-nationalism in the beginning of the Showa period. The narrative begins in 1928 with the teacher's…
Agri
Japanese Drama - 1997, 156 episodes7.9
It chronicles the life of a Showa period hairdresser, and is based on a true life story of Moshizuki Agri. Agri has worked for over 70 years as a beautician. She is a successful business woman who survived the war by…
The Wolves
Japanese Movie - 19717.8
Seiji Iwahashi, a member of the Enoki-ya gang. He was recently released early from a 10-year prison sentence for killing the boss of rival Kan’non-gumi. However, he returns to find Kan’non-gumi and Enoki-ya finalizing…
Tsuma to Tonda Tokkouhei
Japanese Special - 2015, 1 episodes7.9
In June 1945 (Showa 20), Yamauchi Fusako goes alone to Manchuria where her husband, Setsuo, a second lieutenant of the Kwantung Army, is based. At that time, 200,000 Japanese had settled in Manchuria, a Japanese occupied…
The Burmese Harp
Japanese Movie - 19567.9
At the end of World War II, in Burma, Private Mizushima is a harp player in his platoon. When he is separated from his fellow soldiers and believed to be dead, Mizushima disguises himself as a Buddist monk and finds…
The Face of Jizo
Japanese Movie - 20047.8
The movie focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of 1948, as the ghost of her father visits Mitsue. He had somehow learned that she has fallen in love,…
Battle of Okinawa
Japanese Movie - 19717.8
Set in March of 1945, as Japanese forces throw all they’ve got at Allied forces to protect their last defensive stronghold: the island of Okinawa.
Shrieking in the Rain
Japanese Movie - 20217.9
Hanako is a new director who encounters difficulties while being rubbed by the on-site staff in order to shoot the ideal movie.
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