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99-nen no Ai ~ Japanese Americans

7.9

The story follows a family of Japanese immigrants who crossed over to America 99 years ago. Kusanagi plays both the young Hiramatsu Chokichi (later taken over by Nakai) and his son, Ichiro. When the war breaks out the…

Epitaph

6.8

In 1979, Dr. Park receives an old photo album from his twenties in 1941 when mysterious things befell him and his colleagues at Ansaeng Hospital. In 1942, as a young medical intern, Park was bound by his parents to marry…

The Overture

8.1

Based on the life of Luang Pradit Pairoh (Sorn Silapabanleng) the most revered traditional Thai music master who lived during the reigns of Kings Rama V to VIII, the movie traces the life of Sorn, who picked up the ra-nad…

I Want to Be a Shellfish

7.7

One relatively peaceful post-war day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber and good family man, is unexpectedly arrested by the Prefectural Police, declared a suspected war criminal, and subsequently sued for murder…

Seklusyon

7.7

They say that the devil attacks more aggressively during the last seven days of becoming a priest, so deacons are sent to a secluded holy fortress to avoid the devil's temptations, not until a mysterious young girl arrives…

Bodhisattva in Storm

7.6

In 1946, the cargo ship "Chaofeng Pill" returned from Japan to Keelung Port, and the ship was filled with Taiwanese people who traveled to Japan. Tao Zhan Wen, a well-known Chinese student who detected the murder in…

Dirty Hearts

7.6

In 1945, news of the Surrender of Japan was received with wide skepticism by most Japanese immigrants in Brazil, who assumed it is mere Allied propaganda. Those who did accept the truth are seen as traitors, "dirty hearts",…

Ip Man: Kung Fu Master

7.5

IP MAN: KUNG FU MASTER harks back to Ip’s early days before the Communist Revolution in 1949. Ip Man was then a police captain who was framed for the murder of a ruthless but honorable mobster, and targeted for vengeance…

Inugamike no Ichizoku

7.4

In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan dies, setting off a chain of bizarre, gruesome murders. Detective Kindaichi must unravel the clan’s terrible secrets of forbidden liaisons, monstrous cruelty, and…

Castella

7.3

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 Coldest City

7.3

Set during the background of the World War 2 Japanese surrender in 1945, the movie tells the tale of a lawless city where underworld crime runs rampant. (Source: Letterboxd)

Special Tasks

7.3

It tells the story of the battle between Kuomintang and Communist agents for the physicist Tong Jiang Nan in Hong Kong In 1948, after the "May Day Slogan" was published, a group of patriotic democrats in Hong Kong, represented…

Be with Me

6.8

Art director Faye has to leave amid a film shoot to care for her ailing father. With her father's condition worsening, Faye leaves her unfinished old house in Taipei behind and returns to her hometown of Chiayi with…

The Fiery Years of Gao Da Xia

6.8

The War of Liberation begins in 1945. Dalian is maintaining an apparent peace after receiving assistance from the Soviet Union. However, under this veneer of peace, the undercurrents of war are surging. The Kuomintang…

Operation Undead

6.6

1941: World War II in Chumphon, Mek, a new sergeant, and Mok, his younger brother in the Youth Soldier unit, face a mysterious threat when "something" belonging to the Japanese goes missing during their landing. This…

Iron Sister

6.5

Manchuria 1941: Caught sleeping with his Japanese major's mistress, Manchurian collaborator Tung Fei fatally shoots the man and flees for his life. Overcome by fatigue after hours of travel on horseback, Tung eventually…

The Tokyo Trial

6.2

A historical film recounting the trial of top Japanese war criminals at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East 60 years ago. The movie focuses on the trial of 28 Japanese war criminals at the end of World…

A Fond Face from the Past

4.9

A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short, thirty-six-minute film is Naruse's most moving negotiation of the militarist restrictions…

Hua Qiao Nv Ying Xiong Li Lin

It tells the life story of overseas Chinese anti-Japanese heroine Li Lin (formerly known as Li Xiuruo). In 1940, on the battlefield of the Yanbei Anti-Japanese War in the Great Wall, a female Eighth Route Army led the…

Celestina: Burlesk Dancer

Set in the Philippines during the 1940s, Celestina is a story about a woman, a burlesk dancer, who struggles to provide for her family while her husband is a gambling and womanizing drunkard. Despite the hardships, Celestina…