Post War Japan Movies

Based on a celebrated book by Kuniko Mukoda, this film directed by Yasuo Furuhata tells of a close friendship undone by love.

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

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

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

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

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

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 war, Noboru Ando, a former kamikaze soldier, returns to a devastated Tokyo. Enraged by the violence prevalent in society, he immerses...

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

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...

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

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...

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

A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.

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...

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

After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kamikaze pilot, and the two ruffians...

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