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Tenkirimatsu Dark Story
Japanese Special - 2004, 1 episodes2.0
The legendary thief Tenkirimatsu survived turbulent times over the three eras of Taisho, Showa, and Heisei. ~~Adapted from the novel by Asada Jiro (浅田次郎).
Spy Sorge
Japanese Movie - 20037.0
A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II and in the midst of the Japanese imperial ambitions in Eastern Asia. The spy becomes acquainted…
To a Brighter Place
Japanese Special - 2002, 1 episodes4.0
With an elder brother and an adopted younger brother who doesn’t know it, Teru grows up in her father’s bookstore. After she has graduated from girls school at the age of 17, her younger brother, Masahiro, suggests…
Merdeka 17805
Japanese Movie - 2001
It's 1942, at the Dutch island of Java during World War II. Lieutenant Shimazaki of the Southern Front Execution Unit, who boarded the HQ of the Single Army and surrendered the Dutch army, opened the "Youth Dojo", an…
Pride: The Fateful Moment
Japanese Movie - 19983.0
"Pride" is the story of Japanese Prime Minister turned WWII General Hideki Tojo, the accused class "A" war criminal who ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor. His struggle is seen through the eyes of his laudable wife,…
Ten Urara
Japanese Drama - 1998, 156 episodes
The 58th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Ten Urara. Story's settings include Nikko, Tochigi and Koto, Tokyo. This drama is the tale of one high spirited, strong-willed young woman and her struggle to fulfill her lifelong…
Mitabi no Kaikyo
Japanese Movie - 1995
It depicts the half-life of a Korean man who was forcibly taken to Japan during the Pacific War. (Source: J-Wiki) ~~ Adapted from the novel "The Three Straits" (三たびの海峡) by Hahakigi Hosei (帚木蓬生), which…
Kura
Japanese Movie - 19958.0
In spite of a longstanding tradition forbidding women from working in a sake brewery, Retsu, a young blind woman, challenges herself to overcome her disability in order to save her family’s sake business. (Source:…
Asian Blue
Japanese Movie - 19958.0
An anti-war drama depicting a transport ship that sank off the coast of Maizuru, Kyoto, on August 24, 1945. (Source: Japanese-cinema-db)
Summer of the Moonlight Sonata
Japanese Movie - 1993
Adapted from Tsuneyuki Mori novel with the same title. Although the book is a fiction, it is based on the true stories of the Kamikaze Unit, known from suicide attacks. The title "Moonlight" is taken from Ludwig van…
Ningen kosaten
Japanese Movie - 1993
Set in a local city in the latter half of the Showa 30's, it depicts a bad boy growing up through interaction with yakuza and young prostitutes. (Source: eiga.com)
The Setting Sun
Japanese Movie - 19926.0
A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement. (Source: IMDb) ~~ Adapted from the novel “Setting Sun” (落陽 曠野に燃ゆ) by Tomono…
Kimi no Na wa
Japanese Drama - 1991, 312 episodes6.0
The 46th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Kimi no Na wa. A popular radio drama in 1952 made into a TV drama. A story of a man and a woman who meet amid the Great Tokyo Air Raid in 1945.
Rinrinto
Japanese Drama - 1990, 156 episodes4.0
The 44th NHK Asadora about a man who developed an early television system.
The Glass Cape
Japanese Movie - 19896.0
This beautiful tale is set in a small mountain village in the early 1920s. Fatherless Karin, who lives alone with her ailing mother, meets and befriends Takada Saburo, nicknamed "Mata Saburo of Wind". She and her classmates…
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