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Godzilla Minus One

Japanese Movie - 2023

8.5

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)

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Sanada is an alcoholic doctor in postwar Japan who treats a young, small-time hood named Matsunaga, after a gunfight with a rival syndicate. The doctor diagnoses the young gangster with tuberculosis, and convinces him…

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Fumo Chitai

Japanese Drama - 2009, 19 episodes

8.1

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,…

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Villon's Wife

Japanese Movie - 2009

7.3

Sachi is the long-suffering wife of popular novelist Otani in post-World War II Japan. Brilliant but self-destructive, Otani spends his days drinking, running up debts, and looking for inspiration with other women. A…

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Under the Flag of the Rising Sun

Japanese Movie - 1972

7.8

The time is 1971, 26 years after Japan's surrender to the Allies and the end of World War II. Sakie (Sachiko Hidari), whose husband was lost in New Guinea, watches the television coverage as the Emperor and Empress officiate…

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The Ditch

Japanese Movie - 1954

7.7

Toku, a factory worker gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru, who then follows him home. He shares a shack in a shanty village in Kawasaki with his friend Pin-chan. The two men try to get rid of her but then let her…

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Teruteru Kazoku

Japanese Drama - 2003, 150 episodes

7.7

The story is about the Iwata family living in Ikeda, Osaka City, between the 1950s and 1960s. The story is told through the eyes of the youngest daughter, Fuyuko (16). The family runs a bakery. The mother, Teruko, is…

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Kaitakushatachi

Japanese Drama - 2012, 4 episodes

7.4

The Abe family lives in Manchuria, China. After the Russian invasion and Japan's defeat in World War II, the family must move back to Japan and try to start life anew on a farm in Tochigi prefecture.

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My Second Brother

Japanese Movie - 1959

7.2

Four orphaned siblings struggle against the crushing poverty that threatens to separate them. (Source: allmovie.com) ~~ Adapted from the novel based on the diary of a ten-year-old zainichi (ethnic Korean Japanese) girl.

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White Beast

Japanese Movie - 1950

7.1

Yukawa Keiko is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility. (Source: IMDb)

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The Inugami Family

Japanese Movie - 1976

7.0

When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pitting blood against blood. ~~ Adapted from the novel “Inugamike no Ichizoku”…

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Ginza Cosmetics

Japanese Movie - 1951

6.9

Yukiko Tsuji is a gentle, affectionate take on a middle aged bar hostess, struggling to bring up a child alone and facing financial, sexual and end of career issues, as well as the implied disapproval of society. (Source:…

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Women's Victory

Japanese Movie - 1946

8.7

A socially committed film about the feudal state of many Japanese women in 1946. Hiroko Hosokawa, a female lawyer, defends Mrs. Asakura, who suffocated her child in her grief after her husband died penniless following…

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Early Summer

Japanese Movie - 1951

7.8

Noriko lives in postwar Tokyo with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her friends, her more traditionally minded family worries about the fact that she’s still single at the advanced age of 28.…

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Cupola, Where the Furnaces Glow

Japanese Movie - 1962

7.8

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl’s dreams of higher education. (Source: Letterboxd) ~~ Adapted from the novel by Hayafune Chiyo.

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A Hen in the Wind

Japanese Movie - 1948

7.5

The film is set in immediate postwar Japan, Tokyo. Tokiko (Kinuyo Tanaka), a twenty-nine-year-old mother of a young boy of four, is waiting for her husband's repatriation from World War II. In postwar Tokyo, prices are…

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Tsuyako

Japanese Movie - 2011

7.5

The story of a mill factory worker, wife and loving mother in post-war World War II Japan who is visited by a female lover from before the war and has to choose between living the life she’s always wanted and her duties…

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Girl of Dark

Japanese Movie - 1961

7.5

In the late 1950's prostitution was banned in Japan and if a woman was found exercising this profession they were sent to a reformatory. This is a story of one of these brave women Kuniko who is released from the reformatory…

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Children of the Beehive

Japanese Movie - 1948

7.3

The movie focuses on the plight of ten war orphans hailing from different cities across Japan. With nowhere to go, they scavenge around train stations, scratching out an existence by means of black market work for a…

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Older Brother, Younger Sister

Japanese Movie - 1953

7.2

The eldest daughter of a rural family comes home pregnant, testing some already tenuous family bonds. Naruse shows his considerable skill at portraying household dynamics, filming Kyô in relaxed and/or reclining positions…