Movies

An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda produced at the height of the Pacific War. "A...

History film directed by Tomu Uchida.

"Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five Scouts, Tasaka directed this 'home front' comedy-drama...

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a...

A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.

In a village in Manchuria, a group of Japanese settlers struggle against the elements to create wet rice paddies.