Post War Japan Filmes

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

In the black market, a war orphan is confronted with the struggles of people living in the immediate aftermath of WWII.

An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board.

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 young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

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

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

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

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

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

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...

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...

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...

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress...

A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.

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...

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