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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…
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)
Kyukei no Koya
Japanese Special - 2010, 2 episodes6.5
Set in 1945, near the end of WW II, Kenichiro Nogami is reported to have died in a Swiss hospital. In fact, Kenichiro Nogami is working behind the scenes to save Japan from destruction. For this reason, Kenichiro Nogami…
Once Upon an Ordinary Girl
Hong Kong Drama - 1984, 10 episodes8.6
Mok Siu Nong is a student from mainland China who studies in Hong Kong. Having lost her parents during the war, she relies financially on her aunt Tong Ying. She soon meets James, and between the two, a love-hate relationship…
Odds to Win
Chinese Drama - 2020, 40 episodes8.5
A Communist spy serving as an officer of the Japanese puppet regime joins hands with Russian and Korean spies to execute an assassination plot. In the year 1941, Nazi Germany declares war against the Soviet Union. Given…
Legend of the Tiger
Thai Drama - 2011, 19 episodes8.3
In 1957 Thailand after World War II, gangsters abound. The gangsters clash with the police with deadly weapons and black magic spells. (Source: Wikipedia)
Oro Plata Mata
Filipino Movie - 19828.4
A tale set in World War II Philippines about how a rich family copes with the war and how the people change amidst violence and death. (Source: IMDb)
Madadayo
Japanese Movie - 19937.6
Madadayo is the thirtieth and final film to be completed by Akira Kurosawa. It was screened out of competition at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. The main story of the film is based on the life of a Japanese academic…
Aishite Imasu 1941 (Mahal Kita)
Filipino Movie - 20048.1
Inya, a heroine of the Philippine resistance against the Japanese during World War II, recalls events involving her husband Edilberto and their childhood friend Ignacio, a transgender who, masquerading as a woman also…
Twenty Two
Chinese Movie - 20178.0
An estimated 200,000 Chinese women were forced into prostitution by the Japanese army during WWII. Only 22 of them remain today to speak out publicly. This documentary is not a film for political gains or narrow nationalistic…
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)
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…
Battlefield 1938
Chinese Drama - 2009, 48 episodes7.9
The story is based on the cooperation and friendship of four different young men. It depicts the cruel youth growth story of their soul purgatory and tells a priceless civilian anti-war legend. (Source: DramaWiki)
Koo Gum
Thai Drama - 1990, 26 episodes7.9
Set in 1939, during World War II, when the Japanese Empire sent troops to Siam (Thailand) as part of their greater plan; the story depicts the star-crossed romance between Kobori, an Imperial Japanese Navy officer and…
Agri
Japanese Drama - 1997, 156 episodes7.8
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 Battleship Island: Extended Cut
Korean Movie - 20177.9
Director's cut version of the movie "Battleship Island". The director's cut version is almost 20 minutes longer than the film. During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship…
Koo Gum
Thai Movie - 19887.9
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, Wanat is on his way to England to join the Free Thai movement. He hopes to…
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…
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