Post War Japan Movies

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

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...

An intoxicated man promises two magazine editors that he will write a masterpiece. Once he sobers up, he commits to his promise and writes a story...

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

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 touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a fishery business to revive an ailing farming community...

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

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...

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

In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan dies, setting off a chain of bizarre, gruesome murders. Detective Kindaichi must unravel the...

In post-war Japan, Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage, confides in her younger cousin, Tsutomo, and the two become...

A story of a husband battle that unfolds in a village near the 38th parallel a year before the outbreak of the Korean War.

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

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

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

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much...