The Wandering Princess

6.8

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…

The Blazing Sun

It is the 1930s and Korea is under the Japanese occupation. The Korean people barely survive day to day under the cruel and difficult conditions of the Japanese. Choon Ho and his wife Soon Ih wander about the whole…

The Brave Victory

During a time of war, a man joins the Communist party and starts on a road to revolution. In the year 1946 when the Nationalists and the Communists were engaging each other's forces in Dongbei, bandits have become…

A City of Sadness

7.4

Tells the story of a family embroiled in the tragic "White Terror" that was brought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government (KMT) after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s, during which…

The Captive Virgins

Set in an unspecified province in Visayas under the American occupation in 1923. The film tells about the lives of the Sagrada family, run by the matriarch and her son who live in the countryside, where they both live…

Malmoe: The Secret Mission

8.2

Set in the 1940's when Korea was under Japanese occupation. Korean people were banned from speaking their own language during that time. Pan Soo has been imprisoned several times and it is nothing special for him to…

Taste of Wild Tomato

Kaohsiung, Taiwan, is one of the areas that suffered the most from the February 28 incident in 1947. After the uprising against discrimination and the oppression of the Kuomintang ended with a disastrous massacre,…

The Makioka Sisters

7.1

The once-prominent Makioka family undergoes a decline over the years, partially as a result of the Allied Occupation during the '40s. But no matter what fortune has in store, the four sisters always gather in Kyoto,…

Fist of Legend

7.8

Chen Zhen, a Chinese engineering student in Kyoto, who braves the insults and abuse of his Japanese fellow students for his local love Mitsuko Yamada, daughter of the director, returns in 1937 to his native Shangai,…

Okinawa no Tami

A semi-documentary depiction of the people of Okinawa who fought bravely during their military occupation. Adapted from a novel written by Ishino Keiichiro (石野径一郎).