Movie List for "japanese 2"

A man returns from World War II to find his desperate wife had resorted to one night of prostitution to pay for their son’s hospital bills. Year 1948.

A man gets rid of a cheap pot without knowing it contains a map to a treasure. As word spreads, many join in hunting it. Year 1935.

Kokoro is the story of a subtle and poignant friendship between two unnamed characters, a young man and an enigmatic elder scholar whom he calls Sensei. Haunted by tragic secrets that have cast a long shadow over his life, Sensei slo Year 1973.

The loves and tragedies of a geisha in 1933 Japan. Year 1983.

The story of a family embroiled in the “White Terror” that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s. Year 1989.

A young, naive boy sets out alone on the road to find his wayward mother. Soon he finds an unlikely protector in a crotchety man and the two have a series of unexpected adventures along the way. Year 1999.

Legendary tea master Sen no Rikyu is faced with his warmongering lord’s unrealistic pretensions. Year 1989.

The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse’s novel. Year 1989.

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child. Year 1957.

A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan. Year 1959.

An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo’s red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws. Year 1970.

A tragic social drama set in post war Japan and concerns a lonely woman trying to find purpose and stability in a devastated Tokyo. Year 1955.

A girl who had left her home village for life in Tokyo returns to her home years later, and evokes a scandal when the locals discover that she’s a stripper. Year 1951.

The Wife of Seishû Hanaoka is set in feudal Japan. Its two central characters are based on the wife and mother of Japanese physician Seishû Hanaoka (1760-1835). Hanaoka developed a herbal general anesthetic, “Tsusensan”, some forty y Year 1967.

A young blind girl is abandoned by her mother. When her guardian is killed, she learns to wield a sword from a traveling “Ronin”. She travels to seek her mother and her revenge. Year 1969.

Naga Bonar is a pickpocket. During the withdrawal of the Japanese occupying forces from Indonesia in 1945 he declares himself a general of the Liberation Forces. Soon a mask becomes his true self, and he becomes a true soldier and pa Year 1987.