Post War Japan Movies

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional...

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.

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...

In early post-war Osaka, three women—war widow Fusako, her Korean expat sister Natsuko, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law—descend into...

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist....

A mahjong neophyte loses everything to game master only to hone his skills, take on all challenges and plan for an ultimate revenge match.

A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later.

A touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a fishery business to revive an ailing farming community...

In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists,...

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

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...

Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.

A story of a husband battle that unfolds in a village near the 38th parallel a year before the outbreak of the Korean War.

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers.

A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.

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

In post-war Japan, Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage, confides in her younger cousin, Tsutomo, and the two become...

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