Post War Japan Movies

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...

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 an...

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

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

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

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 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 wh...

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

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

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 h...

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

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

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

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 g...

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

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.

Apprentice chef Saori Nakagawa suddenly travels to Tokyo in 1964 to meet Ryuichi Kikuchi, a cook. From Kikuchi who devotes himself to cooking, Saori l...

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 of...

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