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Godzilla Minus One

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)

Drama Special Season 15: The Two Women

7.9

A story of a husband battle that unfolds in a village near the 38th parallel a year before the outbreak of the Korean War. (Source: Korean = m.mt.co.kr || Translation = MyDramaList)

Drunken Angel

7.7

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…

Fumo Chitai

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,…

Villon's Wife

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…

Tsuyako

7.6

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…

Early Summer

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.…

A Hen in the Wind

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…

Ginza Cosmetics

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:…

White Beast

7.1

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

Women's Victory

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…

Cupola, Where the Furnaces Glow

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.

Under the Flag of the Rising Sun

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…

Teruteru Kazoku

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…

Girl of Dark

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…

Kaitakushatachi

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.

The Ditch

7.4

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…

Women of the Night

7.3

After World War II, Mizoguchi was inspired by Italian neorealism to make one of the most emotionally and visually raw films of his career. Filmed on location in Osaka, Women of the Night concerns two sisters—Fusako,…

Gunko no Ko: Yokosuka Cleaning 1946

Post-war Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. Adults who are swayed by the US military stationed in the country and swayed by US intentions cannot afford to care about children who should be protected. The war orphans, who…