Post War Japan Movies

The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies: Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Deadly...

During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much...

In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew...

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages...

Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress...

In the black market, a war orphan is confronted with the struggles of people living in the immediate aftermath of WWII.

Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail...

An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals...

Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.

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

Set in post-war Okinawa, Japan, Gusuku had 3 close childhood friends: On, Yamako and On's younger brother Rei. On was the oldest of the group and he...

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

Hoshino Bunzo raises up his orphan grandson, Keiji whose right leg gets paralyzed when he was an infant. Bunzo loves Keiji so much that he does every...

A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets...

The day to day life in an establishment for delinquent teenage girls.

A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falling for a local woman.

Apprentice chef Saori Nakagawa suddenly travels to Tokyo in 1964 to meet Ryuichi Kikuchi, a cook. From Kikuchi who devotes himself to cooking, Saori...

Postwar Japan as it is described by Etsuko, the manager of a bar catering to foreigners in Yokosuka. The way of life of a woman brimming with...

Post-war Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. Adults who are swayed by the US military stationed in the country and swayed by US intentions cannot afford...

A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.