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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Japanese Movie - 19838.0
The movie is set in the Second World War in a Japanese war camp, and explores the complex and ambiguous affinity between captors and prisoners. The two parties, already enemies because of the war, are driven apart because…
The Little House
Japanese Movie - 20147.7
Takeshi finds several notebooks by his late aunt Taki Nunomiya, who never married. Through the notebooks Takeshi learns of his aunt's life. Prior to World War II, in a little house with a red triangular roof in Tokyo,…
K-20: Legend of the Mask
Japanese Movie - 20087.4
The story takes place in the 1940s, in a fictional Japan, where the country is dominated by the upper class and the country suffers from a huge income disparity between the rich and poor. During this time, an evil masked…
Eien no Zero
Japanese Special - 2015, 3 episodes7.7
The story of Saeki Kentaro, who continues to fail the National Bar Examinations and lose sight of the goal of his life, and his old sister Keiko, who is a freelance writer looking up their grandfather Miyabe who died…
Banjo no Himawari
Japanese Drama - 2019, 4 episodes7.5
In 1994, a human skeleton is found in the mountain of Saitama. A shogi game piece is found with the skeleton. The shogi piece was made by a master craftsman. Veteran detective Takeshi and rookie detective Naoya begin…
Warotenka
Japanese Drama - 2017, 151 episodes7.9
Set during the late Meiji era to post-World War II period at Osaka, featuring the lead character Fujioka Ten who is modeled after Yoshimoto Sei, the founder of Yoshimoto Kogyo and a female comedy show promoter. Ten is…
Manatsu no Shonen: 19452020
Japanese Drama - 2020, 8 episodes8.0
Ryuji, Satoru and Atsushi are friends in high school. They are classmates in the 2nd grade class B. They appear like troubled students, but they are not. They are actually country boys. When they are at their secret…
Taiyou no Ko
Japanese Special - 2020, 1 episodes7.6
Towards the end of WWII, the Navy gave the Kyoto University's physics lab the secret of a bomb that makes use of nuclear fission energy. While doing research to save Japan, the researchers there wonder if they should…
Fumo Chitai
Japanese Drama - 2009, 19 episodes8.1
Iki Tadashi is a military leader who was captured by the Soviets during World War II. Treated as a war criminal, he was sentenced to many years of labor in a harsh Siberian detention camp. After 11 years of imprisonment,…
Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni
Japanese Special - 2011, 1 episodes7.5
The story follows a bride named Suzu Urano as she moves to her new life in Kure City on the coast of Hiroshima Prefecture. Suzu perseveres through World War II with pluck and determination. Shusaku Hojo is a naval officer…
Gift of Fire
Japanese Movie - 20217.9
Inspired by true events regarding Japan's attempt to develop an atomic bomb in the last days of World War II. (Source: Panap Media) ~~ A co-production between Japan and the U.S.A.
Junjo Kirari
Japanese Drama - 2006, 156 episodes7.9
The story is set in Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture in the era around the Second World War. When the story opens in 1928, the heroine, Sakurako, is a very active seven-year-old girl who is interested in becoming a jazz…
Hiyokko 2
Japanese Special - 2019, 4 episodes7.9
This special drama follows the lives of Mineko and her friends in 1970, 2 years after the ending of "Hiyokko."
Admiral Yamamoto
Japanese Movie - 20117.4
In the late 1930's (Show Period 14), two sides in Japan are conflicted between joining Germany and Italy in a military alliance. At this time, Isoroku Yamamoto, who strongly opposed the alliance, is appointed Commander-in-Chief…
Freedom Fighter, Lee Hoe Young
Korean Drama - 2010, 5 episodes7.5
A four-part drama produced for the 100th anniversary of the occupation of Korea by Japan. Freedom Fighter, Lee Hoe Young will be the third and final instalment of a series of dramas by KBS that focus on noblesse oblige…
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Japanese Movie - 19598.2
Kaji married his sweetheart Michiko despite his misgivings about the future. The couple then move to a large mining operation in Japanese-colonized Manchuria where Kaji is a labor supervisor assigned to a workforce of…
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…
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