Sino japanese war movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant sino japanese war movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, captivating, rough, bleak and tense films and TV shows about / with sino japanese war, world war two, war, japanese occupation of china, military, chinese history, wartime life, soldier, life is a bitch and japanese occupation plots mostly in Drama, War and History genres shot in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as sino japanese war: Battle of Changsha (2014), City of Life and Death (2009), The Eight Hundred (2020), Fort Graveyard (1965), Back to 1942 (2012), Don't Cry, Nanking (1995), Rookie Agent Rouge (2016), 1941 Hong Kong on Fire (1994), Story of a Prostitute (1965), Woman Prisoner No. 407 (1976).

List of sino japanese war movies

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Battle of Changsha (2014)
Genre: History, Romance, War
Country: China
TV show
Story: In 1938 October, the Japanese captured Wuhan Changsha, on the verge of death or destruction. City tea Xiang Hu family, under the support of grandson Xue Junshan, leave no stone unturned for Hu Jia's pet a pair of twins Xiangxiang and Xiaoman ...
Style: tear jerker
Plot: sino japanese war, world war two, chinese history, death, chinese army, wartime, true love, engagement, best friend, old friend, wedding planning, army ...
Time: year 1937
Place: china
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City of Life and Death (2009)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 132 min.
Story: City of Life and Death takes place in 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army has just captured the then-capital of the Republic of China, Nanjing. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the ...
Style: disturbing, rough, bleak, black and white, tense ...
Plot: world war two, japanese army, sino japanese war, sexual abuse, war crime, japanese occupation of china, war atrocity, atrocity, japanese occupation, life is a bitch, mass murder, wartime ...
Time: 1930s, year 2009, 2010s, year 1938, 20th century ...
Place: china, asia, shanghai
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The Eight Hundred (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 149 min.
Story: In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.
Style: bleak, suspense, suspenseful
Audience: adult
Plot: chinese history, sino japanese war, japanese soldier, world war two, chinese army, siege, military, warehouse, military life, war, blood, military officer ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1937
Place: shanghai, china
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 7.4
 292
Fort Graveyard (1965)
Genre: Drama, Music, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His commander, Captain Sakuma, is vicious and dictatorial. Sakuma places Kosugi in charge of training for ...
Plot: world war two, world war, battles, brothel, sergeant, prostitution, fortress, youth, fort, military officer, insubordination, japanese soldier ...
Time: year 1945
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 6.9
 4K
Back to 1942 (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 145 min.
Story: In 1942, Henan Province was devastated by the most tragic famine in modern Chinese history, resulting in the deaths of at least three million men, women and children. Although the primary cause of the famine was a severe drought, it was exacerbated ...
Style: serious, captivating, rough, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: world war two, sino japanese war, chaos, danger, life is a bitch, survival, family problems, family in danger, wartime life, on the road, on the run, against humanity ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1942
Place: china, taiwan, asia
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Don't Cry, Nanking (1995)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In December 1937, during the Second Japanese-Sino War, a Chinese doctor, his Japanese pregnant wife, their teenage daughter and their young son travel from Shanghai to Nanjing seeking shelter in the Capital during the Japanese invasion. The family ...
Style: independent film
Plot: world war two, war crime, massacre, japanese occupation of china, expatriate, japanese occupation, sino japanese war, chinese history, dream
Time: 1930s, year 1938, year 1937
Place: china
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Rookie Agent Rouge (2016)
Genre: Action, History
Country: China
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Can a young woman prove her loyalty to her country and her family? Lan Yan Zhi is a privileged banker’s daughter in Shanghai and a student activist who mistakenly comes into possession of a letter from the Japanese Army in 1937. She gets ...
Style: suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, exciting, contemplative ...
Plot: espionage, military, spy, secret agent, female spy, chinese history, strong female lead, japanese occupation of china, communist, sino japanese war, world war two, resistance ...
Time: year 1937
Place: china, shanghai
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1941 Hong Kong on Fire (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A family suffers at the hands of the Japanese during the occupation of Hong Kong.
Plot: world war two, actress, atrocity, heroism, traitor, prostitution, movie studio, matricide, uxoricide, castration, occupation, masochism ...
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Story of a Prostitute (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Disappointed by the marriage of her lover to a woman he does not love, prostitute Harumi drifts from the city to a remote Japanese outpost in Manchuria to work in a "comfort house," or brothel, during the Sino-Japanese war. The commanding ...
Style: sex comedy, erotic, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: world war two, prostitute, prostitution, soldier, female nudity, desertion, crazy love, wartime, sex, whore, japanese history, world war ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s
Place: china, japan
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Woman Prisoner No. 407 (1976)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Kang-hie recalls from her cell how she was used by Japanese detectives to track down and destroy the Korean Independence fighters. She manages to escape from prison during a break and proceeds to hunt down her former lover who was a Japanese agent.
Style: sadistic
Plot: women in prison, women's prison, prison, sadism, escape, humiliation, physical abuse, violence, female nudity, torture, sino japanese war, degradation ...
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 7.7
 4K
Nanking (2007)
Genre: Biography, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Japanese army murdered over 200,000 and raped tens of thousands of Chinese. In the midst of this horror, a small group of Western expatriates banded ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, depressing, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, against humanity, rescue, atrocity, japanese history, rape, invasion, testimony, daring rescue, survival, life is a bitch, danger ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1937, year 1938
Place: china, asia, japan, shanghai
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The Resistance (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: China
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In 1937, Japan began their invasion of China by murdering over 300,000 people in the capital of Nanjing. The atrocities committed against women and their daughters are especially barbaric. One of them is Xiaoyun, a peasant girl who fights with the ...
Style: captivating, exciting, entertaining, tense, serious ...
Plot: ninja, genocide, assassination, revenge, resistance, vengeance, wartime life, world war two, martial arts, heroes, medieval, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: china, usa, asia, japan
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 3.2
 5K
Air Strike (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: China
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An American pilot is sent to a Chinese province to teach a crew of would-be pilots how to fly war planes against the Japanese during World War II.
Style: serious, breathtaking, epic, rough, realistic
Plot: sino japanese war, japanese occupation of china, aviation, world war, war, world war two, human nature, bombing, fight, military, brutality, breast feeding ...
Time: 1940s, year 1937, 1930s, year 1938
Place: china
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Men Behind the Sun (1988)
Genre: Drama, History, Horror, War
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The film is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Japanese at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The film details the various cruel medical experiments ...
Style: disturbing, controversial, extreme horror, bleak, rough ...
Plot: dehumanization, world war two, gory, laboratory, japanese history, torture, violence, violent, extreme, hardcore, sino japanese war, experiment ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: china, japan, asia
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 6.2
 296
7-Man Army (1976)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In 1933, 20,000 Japanese soldiers and 50 tanks invaded the Pa Tou Lou Tzu, a strategic key point of the Great Wall. With only seven men stationing, these heroes took on the entire army for five days before succumbing. Director Chang Cheh recreated ...
Style: grindhouse
Plot: kung fu, martial arts, military, soldier, tank, battlefield, fight, fortress, seppuku, japanese soldier, japanese army, friendship ...
Time: 1930s
Place: china
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Eight Hundred Heroes (1976)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The film is based on the true story of a regiment of nationalist troop fighting Japanese forces several times of their strength. Due to the political reasons, such historical topic is avoided in China, and even after the reform, the cautious ...
Plot: world war two, fight, sino japanese war, american soldier, japanese soldier, victory, japanese army, chinese army, tank, fighting
Time: 1930s
Place: china, shanghai
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The Flowers of War (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: China
Duration: 146 min.
Story: A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
Style: touching, emotional, realistic, harsh, visually stunning ...
Plot: world war two, atrocity, war, japanese occupation of china, prostitution, holocaust, sino japanese war, prostitute, wartime, genocide, oppression, rape ...
Time: 20th century, year 1937, ancient times, 1930s
Place: china, asia, east asia, seattle
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Once Upon a Time in Qingdao (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: China
TV show
Story: The series follows the lives of three brothers as they struggle through the turbulent political period before the war. They become part of the first-generation immigrant entrepreneurial path in Qingdao. The story began in 1904 when the Jinan Railway ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: brother brother relationship, republican era china, sino japanese war, chinese history, immigrant, political intrigue, life is a bitch, political unrest, wartime life, brothers, family relations
Place: china
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 7.6
 457
The Disguiser (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the Japanese occupation era, the rich yet naive young master Ming Tai is trained to become an agent, and is later sent to become an underground spy for the Communists. Together with his brother and double agent Ming Lou, they try and bring ...
Style: captivating, exciting, psychological, suspense, tense
Plot: japanese occupation, espionage, resistance, assassination, secret organization, double agent, brother brother relationship, disguise, false identity, trust, mind game, danger ...
Time: 1930s, year 1940, year 1939
Place: china, shanghai
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National Treasure’s Extraordinary Journey (2016)
Genre: Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A story about a group of intellectuals on a mission to protect priceless treasures in order to preserve their national heritage. After the Mukden Incident on September 18, 1931, North China was pushed to a desperate situation. Ren Hong Yi, a ...
Style: historical drama, serious, tense, exciting, period piece ...
Plot: military, fight, chinese history, sino japanese war, japanese occupation of china, war, japanese man, japanese history, chinaman, chinese woman, chinawoman, wartime ...
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 7.2
 56
Sparrow (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: This drama is set during the revolutionary time in Shanghai, based on a novel of the same name of Hai Fei. During the republican revolution, Chen Shen is a secret agent under Special Operations Executive Director Bi Zhongliang, among the agents ...
Style: captivating, sentimental, factual
Plot: chinese history, japanese occupation of china, world war two, patriot, spy, secret agent, social realism, wartime, patriotism, military life, japanese occupation, tragic event ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: china, shanghai
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 5.7
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Railway Heroes (2021)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The historical story of an enemy fighting the wits and courage of an extraordinary brave group of ordinary heroes known as the "Lunan Railway Brigade" who desperately fight to defend their homeland.
Style: captivating, thrilling, tense
Plot: militia, underground movement, sino japanese war, civil war, war, communism, anti communism, fight, wartime, wartime life, world war two, spy ...
Place: china
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Winner (2020)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: In the year 1941, Nazi Germany declares war against the Soviet Union. Given that Manchukuo's loyalties lie with Cheng Tian, the Russians are caught in a situation where they face threats on all sides. Their intelligence agency devises a ...
Style: suspense, dramatic, serious, period piece, suspenseful ...
Plot: spy, secret agent, soviet spy, sino japanese war, agent, special agent, assignment, undercover agent, war, police station, secret mission
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 7.3
 10K
Red Sorghum (1988)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: China
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed ...
Style: tense, mind blowing, independent film, depressing, costume drama ...
Plot: wine, world war two, sino japanese war, minimal dialogue, literary, partisan, struggle, arranged marriage, japanese occupation of china, war crime, rural area, couples ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1987, 1940s, 1920s
Place: china, indiana, tibet, asia
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Maruta 2: Laboratory of the Devil (1992)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the spring of 1945, Japan established a secret base, Unit 731 in Manchuria, where many innocent Chinese, Korean and Mongolian people were killed in grotesque experiments. An idealistic young doctor , Morishima, is horrified by the experiments ...
Style: controversial, extreme horror, terrifying, perverse, bloody ...
Plot: world war two, extreme, gory, murder, prisoner, decapitation, dismemberment, autopsy, cruelty, doctor, violence, extreme violence ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: asia, japan, china
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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
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 6.2
 66
The Champion (1973)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A recently jailed martial arts master teams up with a wronged woman to take down the man's brother, a coal baron who rules a small town with an iron fist.
Plot: kung fu, forced labor, martial arts, female warrior, sino japanese war, republican era china, miner, fight, woman, town, railroad, fighting
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 7.8
 2K
Red Angel (1966)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe with an incredible number of amputations. In the crowded wards, she gives sympathy to some ...
Style: disturbing, controversial, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: world war two, medical, nurse, amputation, medicine, darkness, sensuality, military hospital, gory, anti war, military life, wartime life ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: china
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Ip Man: Kung Fu Master (2019)
Genre: Action
Country: China
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Ip Man’s promising career as a Policeman is ruined after he is framed for murder and targeted by a mob boss’s daughter.
Style: atmospheric, emotional, suspenseful, realistic, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: wing chun, tai chi, martial arts, kung fu, fight, medieval, martial artist, battles, master warrior, loss, pride and honor, leader ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place: hong kong, china, japan, asia
Is relevant ?
 7.2
 7K
John Rabe (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: France, China, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
Style: tense, disturbing, realistic, bleak, serious ...
Plot: war, world war two, rescue, nazi, heroes, atrocity, confined, wartime life, lifesaver, life is a bitch, against humanity, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1938, year 1937
Place: china, japan, asia
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