Post War Japan Filmes

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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 biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.

In postwar Japan, Tsuyako, a factory worker and mother, must decide between duty and love, her family and her freedom.

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

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