The Vault
Japanology Plus
2014 ★ 6.4Host Peter Barakan delves into various aspects of Japanese culture; exploring practices, history, and modern innovations in such areas as ramen, rice, sushi, ge
Sakura
2002 ★ 8.0Sakura is a Japanese serialized morning television drama that aired on NHK from April 1 to September 28 of 2002. The series totalled 156 episodes. It chronicles
Samurai
1945 ★ 5.5A young Japanese-American orphan in California is taken in by a priest who is actually a Japanese secret agent and a samurai warrior. Due to the samurai's train
Pro Wrestling NOAH
2000 ★ 8.0Pro Wrestling NOAH is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion, founded in 2000 following a mass exodus of All Japan Pro-Wrestling (AJPW) staff led by Mitsuh
Objective, Burma!
1945 ★ 6.9A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well e
Blood Oath
1990 ★ 5.7On an obscure Pacific Island just north of Australia, the Japanese Empire has operated a prisoner of war camp for Australian soldiers. At the close of World War
The Last Samurai
2003 ★ 7.6Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorabl
Air Strike
2018 ★ 5.1An American pilot is sent to a Chinese province to teach a crew of would-be pilots how to fly war planes against the Japanese during World War II. Air Strike is
Admiral Yamamoto
1968 ★ 8.5As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet. With Japa
Midway
1976 ★ 6.6This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II. The film Midw
Empire of the Sun
1987 ★ 7.5Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an Ame
Battle of Blood Island
1960 ★ 5.4Two American GIs are the only survivors of a unit wiped out in a battle with Japanese troops on an isolated island. The two, who don't like each other, find try
American Yakuza
1993 ★ 5.8When Nick Davis leaves prison after one year in solitairy, he is hired to operate a forklift in a warehouse in the harbor owned by the Japanese Yakuza patriarch
Iron Chef America
2005 ★ 6.5Iron Chef America: The Series is an American cooking show based on Fuji Television's Iron Chef, and is the second American adaptation of the series, following t
Pray for Death
1985 ★ 6.1Akira Saito, a Japanese businessman lives in Tokyo with his Japanese-American wife Aiko and their children, Takeshi and Tomoya. When the family has a chance to
Proof of the Man
1977 ★ 7.8When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York Cit
Blood on the Sun
1945 ★ 5.9Nick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provi
Hell in the Pacific
1968 ★ 7.0During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the same small uninhabited island in the Pacifi
American Samurai
1992 ★ 5.7A martial artist working as a reporter tries to track down his family’s sword passed down by his adopted Japanese father. He soon finds himself fighting for his
Eden of the East
2009 ★ 6.9When Saki Morimi gets into trouble with the police while in Washington D.C., she is helped by a Japanese man who calls himself, Akira Takizawa. Akira has only t
The Mountain Road
1960 ★ 6.5In 1944, in eastern part of China, U.S.Army Major Baldwin and his volunteer team of demolition engineers are left behind the retreating Chinese forces. Their ta
WWII in HD
2009 ★ 7.6WWII in HD is a 10-part American documentary television miniseries that originally aired from November 15 to November 19, 2009 on the History Channel. The progr
Eagle Riders
1996 ★ 7.7Earth is under siege from the alien menace known only by the name Cybercon and its legion of android forces, the Vorak. The Global Security Council convenes to
Black Dragons
1942 ★ 4.6It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant sc