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21 results for “post-war-japan”

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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Wake Me When It's Over

1960 ★ 6.7

The war may be over, but that doesn't keep the hapless Gus Brubaker from being drafted and posted on a forgotten little Japanese Island...and that's just the be

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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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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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An Autumn Afternoon

1962 ★ 7.9

Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look after him fo

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A Pale View of Hills

2025 ★ 7.6

Dual timelines explore a Japanese widow's memories spanning post-war Nagasaki in 1950s and England during 1980s Cold War era, unraveling secrets that intertwine

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Deca-Dence

2020 ★ 7.6

Many years have passed since humanity was driven to the brink of extinction by the sudden emergence of the unknown life forms Gadoll. Those humans that survived

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Turn A Gundam

1999 ★ 6.9

It is the Correct Century, two millenniums after a devastating conflict which left the world broken. Earth is now mostly uninhabitable, and thus a remnant of hu

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Endless Desire

1958 ★ 6.8

Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during the war. A

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I Want to Be a Shellfish

1959 ★ 10.0

On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war c

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The Thin Red Line

1964 ★ 6.1

Set during the Allied invasion of the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater during WWII, this film is based on the novel by James Jones. Keir Dullea is P

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The Forgotten Imperial Army

1963 ★ 6.3

This documentary examines the plight of Korean veterans who were conscripted into the Japanese imperial army during World War II and later left destitute in pos

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Ip Man 2

2010 ★ 7.5

Having defeated the best fighters of the Imperial Japanese army in occupied Shanghai, Ip Man and his family settle in post-war Hong Kong. Struggling to make a l

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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 Dr

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Black River

1957 ★ 6.9

A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that

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The Place Promised in Our Early Days

2004 ★ 6.6

In a post-war alternative timeline, Japan is divided into the North, controlled by the Union, and the South, controlled by the United States. A mysterious high

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In the Name of the Brother

2024 ★ 8.0

In 1945, Harbin has come under the rule of Japan's puppet state known as Manchukuo. Communist agent Song Zhuo Wen successfully infiltrates Harbin Secret Service

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Ghost of Ueno

2026 ★ 0.0

In 2023, over 80,000 people went missing in Japan, with 30,000 dying alone. Ten percent remained unidentified, known as “muenbotoke” (buddhas without connection

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Kenichi Enomoto

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kenichi Enomoto (October 11, 1904 – January 7, 1970) was a popular Japanese singing comedian, mostly known by his stage

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Hibari Misora

Hibari Misora (美空 ひばり, Misora Hibari, born Kazue Katō (加藤 和枝, Katō Kazue) May 29, 1937 – June 24, 1989) was a Japanese singer, actress and cultural icon. She re

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Ni Songyang

Ni Songyang is a male Chinese actor born in Tianjin on July 22, 1987. He went to Canada in 2005 for his studies and returned after eight years to pursue postgra

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