Hiroshima

1953

Japanese

7.5

♡ 12

Hideo Sekigawa Director

Masao Mishima as

Masao Oda as

Isuzu Yamada as

Eiji Okada as Kitagawa

Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, and its effects on various civilians, especially children, of that city.

In This Corner of the World

2016

Japanese

7.8

♡ 21

97%

husband wife relationship

japan

War

world war ii

Sunao Katabuchi Director

Joe Ochman as Additional Voices

Kira Buckland as Keiko

Laura Post as Suzu Non

Non as Suzu

Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm…

Ghosts of Hiroshima

2022

English

4.5

♡ 6

Brandon Walker Director

Robert Palmer Watkins as Eric

Tony Gibbons as Journalist

Akihiro Kitamura as Mr. Yamahura

Ashley Park as Nori

77 years after the bombing of Hiroshima, a malevolent force lingers at the site of nuclear calamity. Those who encounter this vengeful spirit are forever consumed by its wrath.

Barefoot Gen

1983

Japanese

8.0

♡ 15

71%

Mori Masaki Director

Taeko Nakanishi as Hana

Yoshie Shimamura as Kimie

Kôji Yada as Walla

Kôji Totani as Walla

A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.

Hiroshimai: 75 Years Later

2020

English

7.3

♡ 8

James Erskine Director

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later is told entirely from the first-person perspective of leaders, physicists, soldiers and survivors.

Black Rain

1989

Japanese

7.8

♡ 7

52%

55%

Action

atomic bomb

based on novel or book

Drama

hiroshima, japan

husband wife relationship

marriage proposal

War

world war ii

Shôhei Imamura Director

Sabu Kawahara as Kanemaru

Akiji Kobayashi as Katayama

Kazuko Shirakawa as Old Woman with white flag

Kazuo Kitamura as Shigematsu Shizuma

Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic bombing, a tragedy that cruelly took the lives of thousands of people and forever marked the harsh existence of the survivors.

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

1973

Japanese

7.4

♡ 13

90%

Kinji Fukasaku Director

Tatsuo Endô as

Takeshi Katô as

Takashi Ebata as Constable Maekawa

Nobuo Kaneko as Yamamori

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.

In This Corner of the World

2016

Japanese

7.8

♡ 99

97%

husband wife relationship

japan

War

world war ii

Sunao Katabuchi Director

Joe Ochman as Additional Voices

Kira Buckland as Keiko

Laura Post as Suzu Non

Non as Suzu

Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm…

Police Tactics

1974

Japanese

7.3

♡ 5

Kinji Fukasaku Director

Takeshi Katô as

Mizuho Suzuki as

Tatsuo Endô as Aihara

Nobuo Kaneko as Yamamori

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.

Hiroshima

1995

English

7.8

♡ 6

84%

Roger Spottiswoode Director

Mark Camacho as Charles Sweeney, Pilot

Kenneth Welsh as President Harry S Truman

Timothy West as Prime Minister Winston Churchill

Harry S. Truman as Self

Hiroshima is a 1995 Japanese / Canadian film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and Roger Spottiswoode about the decision-making processes that led to the dropping of the atomic bombs by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki toward the end of World War II. Except as actors, no Americans took part in the production. The three-hour film was made for television and evidently had no theatrical release, but is available on DVD for home viewing. A combination of dramatisation, historical footage, and eyewitness interviews, the film alternates between documentary footage and the dramatic recreations. Both the dramatisations and most of the original footage are presented as sepia-toned images, serving to blur the distinction between them. The languages are English and Japanese, with subtitles, and the actors are largely Canadian and Japanese.

The Face of Jizo

2004

Japanese

7.1

♡ 2

Kazuo Kuroki Director

Tadanobu Asano as Kinoshita

Rie Miyazawa as Mitsue

Yoshio Harada as Takezou

Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of 1948, as the ghost of her father visits Mitsué (Rié Miyama). He had somehow learned that she has fallen in love, and tries to convince her to start her new life. But Mitsué obstinately refuses his warm and humorous encouragements : « People were killed in my place. I do not have the right to find happiness », she says.

Final Episode

1974

Japanese

7.3

♡ 7

Kinji Fukasaku Director

Yumiko Nogawa as

Hiroko Fuji as

Kunie Tanaka as Makihara Masakichi

Nobuo Kaneko as Yamamori

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.

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