The Handmaiden (2016), Jing wu ying xiong (1994), The Age of Shadows (2016), Surrender -- Hell! (1959), The Raiders of Leyte Gulf (1963) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Japanese Occupation movies.
Storyline: 1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl (Sookee) is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress (Hideko) who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle (Kouzuki). But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to elope with him, rob her of her fortune, and lock her up in a madhouse. The plan seems to proceed according to plan until Sookee and Hideko discover some unexpected emotions.
Plot Keywords: pickpocket, japanese woman, lesbian, heiress, intense, emotional, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Chen Zhen, a Chinese engineering student in Kyoto, who braves the insults and abuse of his Japanse fellow students for his local love Mitsuko Yamada, daughter of the director, returns in 1937 to his native Shangai, under Japanse protectorate -in fact military occupation- after reading about the death of his kung-fu master Huo Yuan Jia in a fight against the Japanese champion Ryuichi Akutagawa. While overcoming suspicion and ambition within the kungfu school, Chen exhumes his master to prove Hou's defeat was the result of poisoning. Both nationalities make the case a test of honor, so Chinese and Japanese pride are at stake when it culminates in Chen's final epic duel against the ruthless, undefeated Japanese general Fujita.
Plot Keywords: martial artist, girlfriend, japanese man, general, son, prostitute, spectacular ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them. A talented Korean-born Japanese police officer, who was previously in the independence movement himself, is thrown into a dilemma between the demands of his reality and the instinct to support a greater cause.—Anthony Mumford
Plot Keywords: police captain, spy, resistance leader, friend, brooding, fascinating, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An officer leads a band of Filipino guerrillas against the Japanese in anticipation of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's return.
Plot Keywords: guerrilla leader, guerrilla fighter, officer, colonel, japanese soldier, army major, gutsy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An American intelligence agent is captured by the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II. A team is put together to try to rescue him.
Plot Keywords: spy, captor, lieutenant, guerrilla, prisoner, intelligence officer, tense ...
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