Post War Japan Movies

Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to...

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

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

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 the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.

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...

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

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 budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.

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

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

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

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

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...

Set in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage. She confides in...

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

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 biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.