Post War Japan Movies

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

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

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

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

Hoshino Bunzo raises up his orphan grandson, Keiji whose right leg gets paralyzed when he was an infant. Bunzo loves Keiji so much that he does every...

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...

The day to day life in an establishment for delinquent teenage girls.

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...

Post-war Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. Adults who are swayed by the US military stationed in the country and swayed by US intentions cannot afford...

A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of...

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

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

A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.

A story of young people in the immediate aftermath of World War II, their post-war careers, sorrows, and triumphs.

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...

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...