Post War Japan Movies

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages...

In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from Korea, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law, descend...

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

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

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological...

The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.

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...

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

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

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 board.

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Set in post-war Okinawa, Japan, Gusuku had 3 close childhood friends: On, Yamako and On's younger brother Rei. On was the oldest of the group and he...

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...