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The Burmese Harp (1985)
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The Burmese Harp (1985)
Original name: ビルマの竪琴
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story: In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.
Style: odd
Plot: world war two, prisoner, bird, soldier, buddhism, british army, japanese army, pow
Time: 1940s
Place: japan, burma

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, independent film, serious and suspenseful films with plots about world war two, soldier, world war, pow, military, japanese army and prisoner mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like The Burmese Harp: The Sea and Poison (1986), Fall of the Eagles (1989), Japan's Longest Day (1967), Everlasting Glory (1976), Oba: The Last Samurai (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Sea and Poison (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Downed American fliers in WW II are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in medical experiments.
Style: retro
Plot: world war two, mental disorder, nurse, torture, bomber, vivisection, air force, doctor
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: japan
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100%
Fall of the Eagles (1989)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story: No overview found.
Plot: world war two, nazi germany, nazi, wounded soldier, german soldier, death of loved one, male protagonist, soldier, singer, bomb, female nudity, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 1940s
Place: germany
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Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to ...
Style: political
Plot: world war two, world war, japanese soldier, japanese army, japanese history, military, japanese military, soldier, atomic bomb, emperor, imperial japan, pacific war ...
Time: 1940s
Place: japan, tokyo, china, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Everlasting Glory (1976)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A Chinese national policy film
Plot: world war two, chinese army, japanese soldier, sino japanese war, tank, japanese army
Time: 1940s, 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Oba: The Last Samurai (2011)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In 1944, the American military lands on the shores of Saipan. Refusing to commit suicide with his superiors or be forced into camps for prisoners of war, Captain Oba Sakae leads a group of his men and other similarly minded local residents into the ...
Style: tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, disturbing
Plot: world war two, military, honor, world war, soldier, battles, japanese army, commander, fight, heroic mission, wartime, war ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 1944
Place: japan, pacific ocean, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Return from the River Kwai (1989)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of war prisoners has spilt blood, sweat and tears to construct a bridge over the river Kwai in Thailand. Just when the bridge is ready, an American bomber arrives and destroys it. Camp commander Tanaka wants to set an example and orders that ...
Style: independent film
Plot: world war, prisoners of war, prison, prison escape, military prison, revolutionary war, struggle, prisoner, freedom, revolution, pow, decapitation ...
Time: 1940s
Place: asia, thailand, burma, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Secret of Blood Island (1965)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Based on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW forced labour camp. There she is hidden, disguised as a youthful prisoner, until her escape can be effected. The costs of keeping her identity secret fall ...
Style: grindhouse
Plot: world war two, prisoner, bare chested male, secret, torture, prison, agent, jungle, concentration camp, pow
Time: 1940s
Place: asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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King Rat (1965)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942 the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. This was a POW detention center like no other. There were no walls or barbed-wire fences for the ...
Style: black and white, realistic, bleak, sad, serious ...
Plot: world war two, prison, prisoner of war camp, world war, prisoners of war, military, friendship, bullying, great war, prisoner, prison life, british ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: japan, asia, singapore
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Battle of Okinawa (1971)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 149 min.
Story: The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army divisions to defend it at all costs. The mission quickly degenerates as vital resources and troops ...
Plot: world war two, japanese army, japanese military, military, u.s. navy, japanese soldier, japanese navy, pacific war, young soldier, american soldier, u.s. army, brutality ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: okinawa japan, japan, usa, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Glory Sky (1962)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two stories set in northern Greece during World War II.
Plot: world war two, resistance, greek, military, soldier, retreat, solitude, german occupation, wartime
Time: 1940s
Place: greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Imperial Japanese Empire (1982)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the 2nd World War.
Plot: world war two, imperial japan, barber, military, father son relationship, japanese occupation, beach, japanese army, husband wife relationship, christian, chance meeting
Time: 1940s
Place: the philippines, okinawa japan, japan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Seven Women from Hell (1961)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Seven women from different backgrounds, nationality, age, class, and marital status find themselves in New Guinea, February 1942 - when the Japanese army takes over unexpectedly, and sends them into a war camp in the jungle.
Plot: world war two, prisoner, world war, women, treachery, hunger, pregnancy, american soldier, heroine, thief, evacuation, cruelty ...
Time: 1940s
Place: pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Jungle Fighters (1961)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Based on a play by Willis Hall. A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the recordings can be played back by other troops to divert the enemy to their whereabouts. As they ...
Style: ironic, tension, independent film, vintage
Plot: world war two, jungle, iconoclastic, prisoner, british army, anti war, soldier, army, group, shootout, abandoned building, japanese soldier ...
Time: year 1961, year 1942
Place: burma, southeast asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Little Alexander (1981)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, East Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: May of 1945. Soviet soldiers conducting an operation to rescue the children in a small town in the territory of Germany.
Audience: kids
Plot: world war two, death, poverty, concentration camp, hunger, post war
Time: 1940s
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Cavern (1964)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Adventure drama during WW2 in Italy where a mixed group of people get trapped inside a cave after a bomb raid. But can they co-operate? And will they survive?
Plot: world war two, soldier, cave, underground, trapped, group
Time: 1940s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Soldier and the Elephant (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Soldier Armenak is given an extraordinary task: to transport an elephant from Germany to the Yerevan Zoo.
Plot: world war two, soldier, zoo, elephant, yerevan
Time: 1940s
Place: soviet union, armenia, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Tombstone of the Fireflies (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set during World War II, the film follows a young brother and sister as they attempt to survive the aftermath of the firebombing of Kobe City.
Style: psychological, suspense, rough, touching, disturbing
Plot: world war two, sibling relationship, bombing, firefly, brother sister relationship, little girl, wartime, survival, struggle for survival, war, life is a bitch, kids in trouble ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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War Fever (1969)
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A twist of fate leads a recent Westpoint grad into being responsible for the execution of two fellow American GIs. The young lieutenant comes of age, and the two battle hardened veterans achieve a state of grace through acts of sacrifice.
Style: macaroni combat
Plot: world war two, world war, man on a mission, combat, german army, chaplain, cigarette smoking, small town, prisoner, firing squad, ambush, death of child ...
Time: 1940s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Trial on the Road (1986)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A Russian POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Nazis.
Style: political, black and white
Plot: world war two, great patriotic war, nazi, partisan, prisoners of war, prisoner, world war, underground, redemption, eastern front, collaborator, suspicion ...
Time: 1940s
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Longest Hundred Miles (1967)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, an assorted group of refugees, including an American soldier, an Army nurse, a priest and a group of local children, try to make their getaway aboard a rattletrap, creaky bus.
Plot: world war two, world war, prisoner, war hero, pursuit, little boy, little girl, nurse, soldier, truck, singing, priest ...
Time: year 1942, 1940s
Place: the philippines, southeast asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Boys from St. Petri (1991)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A group of school-mates form a resistance group in nazi-occupied Denmark.
Plot: world war two, children, wartime life, world war, war, nazi, sabotage, resistance, high school, teenager
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Back Door to Hell (1964)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: During WWII, a three-man commando team places its trust in the hands of a band of Filipino resistors, as they try to knock out a Japenese communication center.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, tense, psychotronic ...
Plot: world war two, espionage, war, danger, anti war, escapades, mission, world war, liberation, reconnaissance, battles, soldier ...
Time: 1940s
Place: the philippines, japan, asia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
No Man is an Island (1962)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The true story of George Tweed, an American sailor who became the only serviceman on the island of Guam to avoid capture by the Japanese during the early years of World War II.
Style: independent film
Plot: world war two, stranded, shipwreck, u.s. navy, behind enemy lines, priest, bare chested male, scorpion
Time: year 1962
Place: pacific ocean, minneapolis minnesota, pearl harbor, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Sirius (1975)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 50 min.
Story: In SIRIUS, a young boy whose most cherished companion is his loyal German shepherd devises his own form of resistance when the Nazis arrest his father, then order the confiscation of local canines, including his pet, to be retrained as attack dogs ...
Plot: world war two, killer dog, boy, dog, animal death, village, sabotage, german occupation, young, train explosion
Time: 1940s
Place: czechoslovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Sour Grape (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Two years after receiving news of his father’s death in WWII a young boy continues to wait for trains from the front. The boy lives with his crippled uncle rather than with his mother, who has remarried and has another child. Then one day the ...
Plot: world war two, father son relationship, soldier
Time: 1940s
Place: armenia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Hideouts (1986)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Austria, West Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In this well-photographed and sometimes confusing wartime drama, an Austrian village experiences the tragedy of war on several different levels. Within one family, the younger son is jealous of the praise his father gives to a Polish POW who is ...
Plot: informant, typhus, teenage boy, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, death, betrayal, world war two, prisoner, husband wife relationship, death of brother, german army ...
Time: 1940s
Place: austria, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Black Birds (1967)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: WW2 story about group of prisoners who are trying to escape the death camp, run by local pro-Nazi militia.
Plot: world war two, partisan, nazi concentration camp, group, death, escape, cruelty, civil war, nazi, prison
Time: 1940s
Place: croatia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 190 min.
Story: His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival.
Style: existential, art house, poetic, realistic, serious ...
Plot: world war two, soldier, military, samurai, captivity, japanese army, sadness, road trip, revolution, time travel, existentialism, prison ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1961
Place: china, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Long Day's Dying (1968)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Three British soldiers and their German captive trek through the European countryside.
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: world war two, soldier, holocaust, captive, basic training, gory, captivity, prison, anti war, military life, battles, rescue ...
Time: 1940s
Place: europe, england, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Unknown Soldier (2017)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Finland, Belgium, Iceland
Duration: 180 min.
Story: The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, military, eastern front, infantry, soldier, friendship, husband wife relationship, friend, insubordination, firing squad, battles, heroes ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943, year 1941, year 1942 ...
Place: finland, germany, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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