Post War Japan Movies

A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the...

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...

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...

A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets...

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

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

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.

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

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.

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 the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.

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

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.

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

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

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

A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He...