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Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.
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Colorful
Film · 2010 · also animation and dramaUpon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is lucky and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the body of a 14-year-old boy...
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Empire of the Sun
Film · 1987 · also drama and warJamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sail...
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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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Emperor
Film · 2012 · also drama and warAs 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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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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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Film · 1959 · also drama and warKaji, sent to the Japanese army labeled Red, witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against a fellow recruit. He also sees his friend S...
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Blood on the Sun
Film · 1945 · also drama and warNick Condon, an American journalist in 20s Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the ac...
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Detective Conan: Dimensional Sniper
Film · 2014 · also animation and dramaA rash of sniper attacks leaves the streets of Tokyo empty and the public terrified to go outside. It’s up to Conan and his friends to find the culprit, but the case goes...
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Bleach the Movie: Fade to Black
Film · 2008 · also animation and dramaA strange disturbance in the World of the Living sends Ichigo and Kon to the Soul Society, where the Seireitei has been devastated by an explosion of reishi and Rukia is...
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Film · 1959 · also drama and warAfter handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants...
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