Here we've displayed a list of the best Postwar Japan films : Okaasan(1952), Battles Without Honor and Humanity(1973), Always: Sunset on Third Street 2(2007), Violence at Noon(1966), Tokyo Joe(1949) ... ...
Drama
Japan
1952
100 Minutes
Kinuyo Tanaka Masao Mishima Akihiko Katayama Kyoko Kagawa Eiji Okada
mother husband daughter sister son japanese man melodramatic tender moving japan family home street factory mother/daughter relationship family postwar japan poverty marriage hard times sacrifice
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
Crime, Drama
Japan
1973
99 Minutes
Bunta Sugawara Hiroki Matsukata Tatsuo Umemiya Tsunehiko Watase Nobuo Kaneko Gorô Ibuki Tamio Kawaji Eiko Nakamura Hiroshi Nawa
prisoner gangster mob boss best friend gritty brutal hiroshima, japan market bar organized crime postwar japan double-cross yakuza sacrifice revenge wretched excess 1950s
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 between unscrupulous bosses.
Comedy, Drama
Japan
2007
146 Minutes
Hidetaka Yoshioka Shinichi Tsutsumi Koyuki Maki Horikita Hiroko Yakushimaru Kazuki Koshimizu Kenta Suga
mechanic apprentice novelist bar owner young boy wealthy man melodramatic heartwarming uplifting tokyo family home automobile repair shop bar apartment candy store postwar japan city life family parenthood modernization
Chagawa finds it increasing difficult to support his young ward Junnosuke in his store across the street from the Suzuki garage on Third Street. Unless he can provide a better life, ... See full summary »
Drama
Japan
1966
99 Minutes
Hideo Kanze Saeda Kawaguchi Narumi Kayashima Teruko Kishi Hôsei Komatsu Akiko Koyama Kei Satô Taiji Tonoyama Matsuhiro Toura Fumio Watanabe Sen Yano
maid victim rapist wife police officer father bleak disturbing sad japan commune school woods apartment serial rape postwar japan poverty murder investigation disillusionment
Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.
Drama
1949
88 Minutes
Humphrey Bogart Florence Marly Sessue Hayakawa Alexander Knox Jerome Courtland Gordon Jones Teru Shimada Hideo Mori Charles Meredith Rhys Williams Lora Lee Michel
pilot ex-wife husband daughter crime boss club owner suspenseful melodramatic patriotic tokyo nightclub government building law office airplane postwar japan expatriates blackmail war crime marriage fatherhood
A GI (Humphrey Bogart) in postwar Tokyo smuggles war criminals for a blackmailer (Sessue Hayakawa) who has kidnapped his daughter.