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Gochisosan
Japanese Drama - 2013, 150 episodes8.0
In the food themed drama, Uno Meiko is the daughter of parents who run a western style restaurant in Tokyo. She marries and moves to Osaka with her husband. Meiko experiences cultural differences between Tokyo and Osaka,…
Godzilla Minus One
Japanese Movie - 20238.5
Post-war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb. (Source: IMDb)
Umechan Sensei
Japanese Drama - 2012, 156 episodes8.0
The story is set in the devastated area of Kamata, Tokyo, in 1945 just after the end of the war. Horikita plays Shimomura Umeko, the youngest of 3 siblings whose father is a doctor at a university hospital. Compared…
The Outsider
Japanese Movie - 20187.3
An epic set in post-WWII Japan and centered on an American former G.I. who joins the yakuza. 1952 Japan a former American Army Captain Nick Lowell is in an Osaka prison where he saves Kiyoshi, a yakuza, from being hung…
Auntie Duohe
Chinese Drama - 2009, 34 episodes8.1
A young Japanese woman lives with a Chinese family in the aftermath of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Castella
Japanese Drama - 2013, 5 episodes7.5
Masashi is a 5th-grade student in elementary school. His family consists of his father, Masato; his mother, Kiyoko; younger brother, Shigeri; younger sister, Reiko; and his grandmother, En. His father, Masato, works…
The Brave Victory
Chinese Drama - 2018, 38 episodes
During a time of war, a man joins the Communist party and starts on a road to revolution. In the year 1946 when the Nationalists and the Communists were engaging each other's forces in Dongbei, bandits have become a…
Keisei Saimin no Otoko - Matsunaga Yasuzaemon
Japanese Special - 2015, 1 episodes6.0
Matsunaga Yasuzaemon was a man called “Electricity Monster”. The post-war recovery and high economic growth serve as the basis for him to achieve the breakup and privatisation of the electricity business. As a follower…
Keisei Saimin no Otoko - Kobayashi Ichizou
Japanese Special - 2015, 2 episodes6.0
Second of a 3-part series of biographical dramas to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the establishment of NHK, this series documents the life of railway tycoon Kobayashi Ichizou, who established the famous all-women's…
Hikaru Hekiga
Japanese Special - 2011, 1 episodes2.0
Follows Sone Kikuo as he develops the gastroscopy in post-WWII Japan.
Okinawa no Tami
Japanese Movie - 1956
A semi-documentary depiction of the people of Okinawa who fought bravely during their military occupation. Adapted from a novel written by Ishino Keiichiro (石野径一郎).
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