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Birth of Cartoon
Japanese Movie - 2019
A biographical film depicting the half-life of Kitazawa Rakuten , who was active from the Meiji era to the early Showa era and used "manga" for the first time in modern usage, and is considered to be the ancestor of…
Boy Soldiers: The Secret War in Okinawa
Japanese Movie - 2018
The "secret war" of the Nakano School which remained untold for over seventy years since the end of the war is explored in this documentary. Director Mikami Chie of The Targeted Village and We Shall Overcome along with…
Star Sand
Japanese Movie - 20176.0
In the closing days of World War II, Japanese-American Hiromi, a girl age 16, encounters an American deserter, Bob, and a Japanese soldier, Iwabuchi, living together in a cave on a small island in Okinawa. The two men…
Tsumatachi no Shinkansen
Japanese Special - 2014, 1 episodes
In the summer of 1955 (Showa 30), Shima Hideo who wishes to build a bullet train, is persuaded by Sogo Shinji, the president of Japan National Railways, to take the post of chief engineer for the "Bullet Train Development"…
Tatta Ichido no Yakusoku - Jidai ni Fuuinsareta Nihonjin
Japanese Special - 2014, 1 episodes5.0
In 1965 (Showa 40), Kunikata Chiyoko visits Sasaki, her father Umeya Shokichi’s former secretary. Shokichi founded the first major movie studio in Japan and was called the movie industry’s soldier of fortune. However,…
Hiroshima Fukko o Yumemita Otoko Tachi
Japanese Special - 2013, 1 episodes
A documentary with dramatized part about Shinzo Hamai, who gave his life to the reconstruction of Hiroshima, while fighting against the atomic bombing. (Source: MyDramaList)
Makete, Katsu
Japanese Drama - 2012, 5 episodes9.5
Yoshida Shigeru was a proud, stubborn man who stuck to his own principles even when tossed into jail during wartime. He also held his own against General MacArthur, the supreme commander of the allied powers. The two…
Japan’s Longest Summer
Japanese Movie - 20103.3
The year is 1963. Twenty-eight former military and government officials meet at a restaurant in Ginza to lament over Japan’s decision to surrender in World War II.
Kikotsu no Hanketsu
Japanese Special - 2009, 1 episodes6.0
In 1942, Prime Minister Tojo Hideki at that time dismissed the House of Representatives and held a general election to eliminate members of the Diet who opposed the government. Candidates who are not cooperating with…
Rakujitsu Moyu
Japanese Special - 2009, 1 episodes2.0
Koki Hirota was the only civilian hanged as a Class A war criminal by the Tokyo Tribunal after World War II. His life is the subject of "Rakujitsu Moyu" ("The Setting Sun Burns"), a drama based on the novel by Saburo…
Koi Suru Kanojo, Nishi He
Japanese Movie - 20092.0
A love story between a woman of our time and a man who somehow comes from the past right before the day of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. (Source: AsianWiki)
Ano Senso wa Nan Datta no ka
Japanese Special - 2008, 1 episodes2.0
The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and was later executed as a war criminal. The story's theme is said to be a look at how the Pacific War began,…
Nasu Shonenki
Japanese Movie - 20086.5
Set in the Nasu City in Tochigi prefecture in 1954, this movie tells the tale of 14 year old boys: their friendships, fights among friends, and rebellions against the school. It also tells the story of the adults who…
Arigato Champi
Japanese Special - 2008, 1 episodes4.0
Kenichi, who, after World War II, decides to open an obedience school since he loves dogs and believes more people will want them as pets. However, all his "students" are invariably from rich families who look on their…
Last Game
Japanese Movie - 20084.0
Set in 1943, baseball is banned in Japan as "a sport of the enemy country" as Japan is at war with the U.S. The baseball match between Waseda University and Keio University (the So-Kei game), which is hugely popular…
Kikoku no Senjo
Japanese Movie - 20074.5
In 1945, a veteran from Manchuria, Daisuke, went to his hometown of Hiroshima with the remains of his mother and sister. In a black market, Murayama-gumi and his fellow thugs try to deprive him of his shova and mess…
Shin Kaze no Rondo
Japanese Drama - 2006, 62 episodes
A pair of men and women who have made a marriage promise. However, when the man's brother died in the war, the fate of the two became an unimaginable tragedy. The cruel goddess of fate also puts a harsh test on her two…
Nijushi no Hitomi
Japanese Special - 2005, 1 episodes4.0
Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi struggles to imbue her students with a positive view of the world and their place in it, despite the fact that she knows full well that most of them will die in the war. (Source: AsianWiki)…
Hachiro
Japanese Drama - 2005, 9 episodes10.0
A story of Sato Hachiro, poet in the Showa period who is known for his lyric poems and songs for children. Despite the delicate and sensitive style of his works, he and his family spent a life full of ups and downs.…
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