post war japan

During the violent chaos of post-War Japanese black market, a young gangster called Shozo Hirono has to keep up with the rapid shifts of power ...

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

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships explode and are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by paleontologist ...

Post war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb.

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

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child. Release: Tokyo ...

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

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband. Release: Meshi AKA ...

A group of Yokohama students fight to save their school’s clubhouse from the wrecking ball during preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic ...

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the team the Toyko Flowers. Release: I Will Buy You 1956 JAPANESE ...

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 ...

Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver (Marlon Brando) is reassigned to a Japanese air base, and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the ...

In Osaka’s slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity ...

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 ...

Fusako, a drug dealer’s young mistress in postwar Japan, loses her tenuous grasp on life upon learning about her lover’s affair. ...

An Okinawan translator introduces U.S. occupation forces to the joys of local life. Release: The Teahouse of the August Moon 1956 WEBRip ...

In post-war Kobe, a local street gang fights for their survival when its ports are overrun by U.S. occupational forces and international gangs. ...

Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love ...

Joe Barrett returns to Tokyo after World War II where he once owned a bar, Tokyo Joe’s, and deserted his wife Trina. They have a ...

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together. ...