From Up on Poppy Hill (2011), Okaasan (1952), Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973), Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 (2007), Violence at Noon (1966) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Postwar Japan movies.
Storyline: Yokohama teens try to save their school's clubhouse from being demolished.
Plot Keywords: young girl, student, young boy, orphan, grandmother, love interest, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Adopted from a prize-winning school essay on the subject of 'My Mother,' upon being widowed a mother with a little help from her elder daughter has to run the family laundry on her own. The second daughter, however, has to be sent to live with relatives as the mother cannot afford her.—aghaemi
Plot Keywords: mother, husband, daughter, sister, son, japanese man, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the violent chaos of post-War Japanese black market, a young gangster called Shozo Hirono has to keep up with the rapid shifts of power between unscrupulous bosses.
Plot Keywords: prisoner, gangster, mob boss, best friend, gritty, brutal, hiroshima, japan ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Chagawa finds it increasing difficult to support his young ward Junnosuke in his store across the street from the Suzuki garage on Third Street. Unless he can provide a better life, Junnosuke's rich father, Kawabata will take him away. Chagawa focuses once again on winning the "Akutagawa-sho" literary award and the prize money coming with it. Mika, a 7-year old relative of the Suzukis is left to stay with them when her father has business reverses. She is accustomed to a richer life style and at first her behavior is very spoiled but is humbled when sees the menial chores that her same-aged cousin Ippei performs. Mutsuko continues to work in the family as a mechanic but has an aspiring boyfriend Takeo, who is studying cooking. Chagawa seeks to find Hiromi, who has become successful once more as the exotic dancer "Betty."—Brian Greenhalgh
Plot Keywords: mechanic, apprentice, novelist, bar owner, young boy, wealthy man, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hakuchû no tôrima is the portrayal of a violent rapist as seen through the recollections of his wife and one of his victims. As the film starts, Eisuke encounters Shino, who works as a maid in a house. She is a former coworker from a failed collective farm, whose life he once saved - only to rape her. Soon, Eisuke's criminal pattern of rapes and murders emerges as he goes on assaulting women. Shino witnesses of one of them, as Eisuke tries to violate her employer. When cooperating with the police on making a description of the rapist, Shino withholds her crucial knowledge of his identity. She prefers writing letters to Eisuke's dutiful wife, Matsuko, a schoolteacher, in order to expose his true nature and perhaps induce her into turning Eisuke over to the police.—X
Plot Keywords: maid, victim, rapist, wife, police officer, father, bleak ...
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