Post War Japan Movies

In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of...

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

In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from Korea, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law, descend...

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological...

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow...

After the atomic obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, over 36,000 Australian men and women, part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force...

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.

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

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

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.

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...

In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international...

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

A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yakuza gangs he's in contact with.

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

A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a...

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...

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...