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Gate of Flesh

1964 ★ 6.6

In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous fr

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Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

2025 ★ 7.9

The world is a perplexing, peaceful mystery to Amélie until a miraculous encounter with chocolate ignites her wild sense of curiosity. As she develops a deep at

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Beast Wars II: Super Lifeform Transformers

1998 ★ 6.7

Beast Wars II refers to the 1998 Japanese Transformers television animated series, and the movie and toyline that resulted from it. The series was preceded by B

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NIPPON SANGOKU: The Three Nations of the Crimson Sun

2026 ★ 8.6

A revolution sparked by nuclear war, natural disaster, and misrule leads to the collapse of Japanese society. The country splits into three nations vying for he

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity

1973 ★ 7.4

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza. Crime Action Dra

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The Idiot

1951 ★ 7.0

A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the disgraced Taeko N

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Terminator Zero

2024 ★ 7.0

A warrior from a post-apocalyptic future travels to 1997 to protect an AI scientist being hunted by an unfeeling — and indestructible — cyborg. The television s

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The Tiger and Her Wings

2024 ★ 8.3

In the early Showa era, Japan’s first women’s law school opens, and the protagonist, Inotsume Tomoko (Ito Sairi), gains nationwide attention as one of the first

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Ai yori aoku

1972 ★ 0.0

The 12th NHK Asadora. Set in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, at the end of the Pacific War. Maki is the heroine, married to Shuichi who must go to war. She stays

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Jun-chan's Cheering Song

1988 ★ 7.0

The year is 1947, August. Ono Junko's family is being evacuated to Wakayama and the father is going to war. A few years later, the father has returned from Manc

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Musume to Watashi

1961 ★ 0.0

A television serial that was in turn adapted from a radio series and a novel, My Daughter And I featured a Japanese novelist who is married to a French woman wh

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In Full Bloom

2019 ★ 6.8

Set shortly after the end of World War II, a philosophical boxing drama of two fighters from opposite worlds (USA and Japan) who are pulled together for a quest

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Godzilla

1954 ★ 7.6

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover something far more

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NieR:Automata Ver1.1a

2023 ★ 8.1

The distant future, 5012. The sudden aerial invasion of Earth by <Aliens> and their creations <Machine Lifeforms> led mankind to the brink of extinction. The su

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Umechan Sensei

2012 ★ 8.0

Umechan Sensei is a Japanese television drama series. It debuted on April 2, 2012. It is about a girl named Umeko Shimomura who, despite being overshadowed by h

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Into the Badlands

2015 ★ 7.6

In a land controlled by feudal barons, a great warrior and a young boy embark on a journey across a dangerous land to find enlightenment. A genre-bending martia

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Natsuzora

2019 ★ 8.0

Okuhara Natsu was born in Tokyo in 1937. In 1945, she loses both parents to war and becomes an orphan, but her father’s comrade, Shibata Takeo, takes her in and

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Barefoot Gen

1983 ★ 7.6

A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people. Animation Drama War History animated dramatic

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The Rolling Girls

2015 ★ 6.5

In a dystopian future where Japan's political organization has crumbled after the Great Tokyo War, Japan is broken up into 10 independent nations, with each nat

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Lead Tombstone

1964 ★ 4.4

LEAD TOMBSTONE tracks the progress of a young sociopathic rake who had, immediately post-WW2, rescued his country farmer mother from rape by stabbing the offend

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Sayonara

1957 ★ 6.7

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver is reassigned to a Japanese air base and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounde

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Idaten: Tokyo Olympics Story

2019 ★ 7.8

Traces Japan’s history with the Olympic games and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics for viewers before Tokyo hosts the event again in 2020. The first half tells the story

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The Teahouse of the August Moon

1957 ★ 6.2

In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead. Comedy japan village interpreter satire ba

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Early Summer

1951 ★ 7.9

In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about her singl

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