Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
2025 ★ 7.9The 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
Wake Me When It's Over
1960 ★ 6.7The 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
In Full Bloom
2019 ★ 6.8Set 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
Gate of Flesh
1964 ★ 6.6In 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
An Autumn Afternoon
1962 ★ 7.9Widower 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
A Pale View of Hills
2025 ★ 7.6Dual timelines explore a Japanese widow's memories spanning post-war Nagasaki in 1950s and England during 1980s Cold War era, unraveling secrets that intertwine
Deca-Dence
2020 ★ 7.6Many 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
Turn A Gundam
1999 ★ 6.9It 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
Endless Desire
1958 ★ 6.8Set 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
I Want to Be a Shellfish
1959 ★ 10.0On 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
The Thin Red Line
1964 ★ 6.1Set 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
The Forgotten Imperial Army
1963 ★ 6.3This 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
Ip Man 2
2010 ★ 7.5Having 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
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973 ★ 7.4In 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
Black River
1957 ★ 6.9A 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
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
2004 ★ 6.6In 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
In the Name of the Brother
2024 ★ 8.0In 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
Ghost of Ueno
2026 ★ 0.0In 2023, over 80,000 people went missing in Japan, with 30,000 dying alone. Ten percent remained unidentified, known as “muenbotoke” (buddhas without connection
Kenichi Enomoto
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Hibari Misora
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Ni Songyang
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