Satokibi Batake no Uta

7.4

Hirayama Koichi and his wife Michiko eloped from Osaka to Okinawa, where they lived happily with their five children. When war erupts, their eldest son is drafted into the Imperial army. As fighting spreads, the family…

A Boy's Summer in 1945

10.0

The film centres on 15-year-old Yasuo and the adults around him as they go through their usual routines during the painful aftermath of World War II. Yasuo feels guilty for surviving when so many of his classmates…

Sema: The Warrior of Ayutthaya

8.0

Sema is a young swordsmith with a dream to become a soldier for Ayutthaya. When he finds his way into the army via connections, he falls in love with a lady of higher social status, which provokes a conflict with an…

Chang He Dong Liu

7.0

The story of the play takes place in the seventeenth year of Ming Chongzhen, the first year of Qingshun (1644 AD), to the sixteenth year of Yongli in the Southern Ming Dynasty, and the first year of Qing Kangxi (1662…

National Mission

Han Women

At the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the Chu-Han Contention was tragic and heroic. General Li Cang of Liu Bang, who was seriously injured in the war, accidentally broke into Fengzhen…

Hi no Jujika

Adapted from Andre Gide " La Symphonie Pastor ".

Akisakura Cosmos Residual Scent

Set in the Makabe-gun, Ibaraki Prefecture and made to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the ending of World War II, this short movie opens with wheel-chair bound, 82-year old Akijiro Kato as he nears the end of life.…

Like a Hero

The Ode to Joy

6.0

German soldiers are transported to a prisoner-of-war camp in Japan after the First World War. The movie depicts warm interactions among German prisoners, a manager of the relocation camp and local residents during…