Films like Barefoot Gen
A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
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Barefoot Gen 2
Film · 1986 · also animation and dramaThree years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.
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In This Corner of the World
Film · 2016 · also animation and dramaJapan, 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 d...
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When the Wind Blows
Film · 1986 · also animation and dramaWith the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of...
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Emperor
Film · 2012 · also drama and historyAs the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his que...
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Giovanni's Island
Film · 2014 · also animation and dramaIn the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of Shikotan became part of the Sakhalin Oblast... and on the unhealed bord...
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Fukushima 50
Film · 2020 · also drama and historyWorkers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an...
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Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Yuria
Film · 2007 · also animation and dramaSecond part of the new Fist of the North Star movie pentalogy presenting the story from Yuria's perspective, spanning from her childhood, including the day she first met...
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Ethel & Ernest
Film · 2016 · also animation and dramaThis hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents,...
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The Boy and the Heron
Film · 2023 · also animation and dramaWhile the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko...
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A Wind Named Amnesia
Film · 1990 · also animation and dramaA wind has swept the Earth taking all the memories from everyone. No one knows who they are, how to speak, or how to use the tools of modern civilization. Two years later...
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