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Hagoku
Japanese Special - 2017, 1 episodes7.7
One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cell in Akita Prison. He forces open the glass window and breaks out of jail. This crime even reaches the ears of Urata…
Akiko's Piano
Japanese Special - 2020, 1 episodes7.8
1940, Kawamoto Akiko lives in Hiroshima with her father and mother, Genkichi and Shizuko, as well as her two younger brothers. Akiko loves playing her favorite piano. As the war situation worsens, she is busy helping…
The Choice of Hercules
Japanese Movie - 20027.6
In February 1972, five members of the Japanese Red Army lock themselves up in a mountain lodge in Karuizawa called Asama Sanso, taking the wife of its proprietor hostage. Sassa Atsuyuki (Koji Yakusho) of the National…
Yukiguni
Japanese Special - 2022, 1 episodes7.6
On a train bound for the snowy mountains of northwestern Japan, a writer named Shimamura notices two fellow-passengers: an ill man named Yukio and the young woman who attends him, Yoko. Gazing at their otherworldly reflection…
Black Rain
Japanese Movie - 19897.6
The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel.
Ecchan
Japanese Drama - 2017, 8 episodes7.6
It is Tokyo in 1935. 10-year-old Yanagi Etsuko is a young girl who loves songs. Her father Kantaro, a struggling lyricist, still cannot forget her late mother and wastes his life away. Seeing her father like this, Etsuko…
Twice
Japanese Movie - 20107.6
Tsutomu Yamaguchi is a hibakusha. A survivor of both atomic bomb blasts in 1945. First at Hiroshima, then again at Nagasaki. How does one man survive one of the worst tragedies in human history – twice? Now nearing…
Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms 2018
Japanese Special - 2018, 1 episodes7.6
Nanami Ishikawa works as an editor at a publishing company. She travels to Hiroshima to go after her father, Asahi, who left home. During her visit to Hiroshima, she learns about the tragic story of Asahi’s older sister,…
Fires on the Plain
Japanese Movie - 19597.7
An agonizing portrait of desperate Japanese soldiers stranded in a strange land during World War II, a compelling descent into psychological and physical oblivion. Denied hospital treatment for tuberculosis and cast…
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…
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Japanese Movie - 19707.5
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. “Tora! Tora! Tora!”, named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot…
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…
Childhood Days
Japanese Movie - 19907.6
Shinji (a young boy evacuated from Tokyo) and his new schoolmates (who are villagers) don’t exactly know what is going on in the war. They see the B-29 bombers, but the problems of being separated from one’s mother…
Japan's Longest Day
Japanese Movie - 19677.5
Depicting the time period from August 14, 1945 at noon until August 15. It depicted the Emperor and the cabinet as they decide to surrender and the subsequent radio broadcast announcing the decision to the Japanese public.
Locomotive Teacher
Japanese Movie - 20047.6
A young man named Yoshioka Seigo arrives at the only elementary school on a small island to find work as a temporary teacher. The only problem is he’s a mute. Initially, both students and their parents have reservations…
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 Wandering Princess
Japanese Movie - 19607.5
A Japanese woman is chosen to marry the younger brother of the “puppet” Emperor of Manchuria during that region’s occupation by Japan in the 1930s and early 1940s. Machiko Kyo stars in this characteristically complex…
Kabei: Our Mother
Japanese Movie - 20087.5
Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain…
Kamen Rider
Japanese Drama - 1971, 98 episodes7.5
In this classic manga adaptation, which kick-started the long-running Kamen Rider TV franchise, Hongo Takeshi, a professional motorcycle racer with an IQ of over 900, is captured by Shocker, a Japanese neo-nazi group,…
Kindaichi Kosuke vs. Akechi Kogoro
Japanese Special - 2013, 1 episodes7.4
The family which operates a medicine wholesale business undergoes an upheaval which leads to the splitting into two factions Ganso and Honke. One day, Kiichirou, the eldest son of the Honke faction, poisons the Ganso…
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