Movies and TV shows set in hiroshima japan
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in hiroshima japan ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, serious, realistic, emotional, bleak and disturbing films and TV shows about / with world war two, atomic bomb, military, war, world war, nuclear, family relations, battles, holocaust and cigarette smoking plots mostly in Drama, War and History genres shot in Japan, USA, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as hiroshima japan: Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes (1990), Hiroshima (1995), Black Rain (1989), In This Corner of the World (2016), Come See the Paradise (1990), Hiroshima Maiden (1988), Women in the Mirror (2002), Pon no Michi (2024), Looking for Magical Doremi (2020), Love's Water Drop (2018).
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List of movies set in hiroshima japan
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The movie follows the perspective of several characters (such as Japanese victims, soldiers, American prisoners of war and others) and how they lived or tried to survive the effects felt during the aftermath of the Atomic Bomb dropping by the Enola ...
Style:
contemplative, captivating, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
world war two, disaster, nuclear war, bombing, surrender, battles, military, against humanity, danger, life is a bitch, confined, moral dilemma ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hiroshima japan, asia, japan, usa
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, Japan
Duration: 190 min.
Story:
Hiroshima is a 1995 Japanese / Canadian film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and Roger Spottiswoode about the decision-making processes that led to the dropping of the atomic bombs by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating
Plot:
world war two, politics, world war, atomic bomb, nuclear holocaust, injustice, nuclear war, terrorism, bombing, nuclear, disaster, surrender ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1945
Place:
hiroshima japan, japan, asia, usa, new york
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel.
Style:
depressing, political, disturbing, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
world war two, radiation sickness, nuclear war, atomic bomb, marriage proposal, survival, bombing, japanese soldier, health, unmarried woman, post war japan, doctor ...
Time:
year 1989, 1950s, 1940s, post world war two, year 1945 ...
Place:
hiroshima japan, asia, japan
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Genre: Animation, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Newlywed Suzu Urano moves to her new life in Kure City on the coast of Hiroshima Prefecture, where she perseveres through World War II with pluck and determination.
Style:
anime, adult animation, thought provoking, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
wedding, world war two, bombing, female protagonist, military, anniversary, evacuation, danger, society, couples, teenager, bomber ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 2010s, 20th century, year 1943 ...
Place:
hiroshima japan, japan, east asia, asia
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Come See The Paradise is a deeply touching love story set against the backdrop of a dramatic and controversial period in American history, It follows the romance and eventual marriage of Jack McGurn (Dennis Quad), a hot blooded Irish American, and a ...
Style:
emotional, contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
world war two, forbidden love, love, racism, atomic bomb, family relations, culture clash, war, interracial romance, hospital, death, marriage ...
Time:
1940s, year 1936, 1930s, 20th century, year 1941 ...
Place:
hiroshima japan, ireland, japan, asia, seattle ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
Story:
"You have to think about whether they're really your friends," Johnny's dad says when Johnny talks to him about the grief his pals have been giving him lately. The other boys haven't exactly tried to understand why Dad ...
Style:
emotional, bleak, uplifting, educational, period drama
Plot:
world war two, prejudice, intolerance, empathy, acceptance, discrimination, friendship, compassion, social commentary, humanity, interracial relations, coming of age ...
Time:
post world war two, 1950s, 50s
Place:
hiroshima japan, japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together.
Style:
bleak, reflective, poignant, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
memory, identity, family drama, memories, family secret, trauma, grief, domestic drama, post traumatic stress, survivor, relationships, reconciliation ...
Place:
hiroshima japan
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima. Akira Kobayashi's Takeda tries to keep ...
Style:
crime drama, crime thriller, tense, period piece, suspenseful ...
Plot:
yakuza, power struggle, gang warfare, organized crime, violence, loyalty, brutality, betrayal, realism, machismo, honor, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
60s
Place:
hiroshima japan
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Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
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Story:
The story is set in Hiroshima Prefecture's Onomichi City, where a high school student Nashiko Jippensha was kicked out of her house. Without a place to play with her friends, she learns that the mahjong parlor that her father used to run is now ...
Style:
feel good, anime, entertaining, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
mahjong, friendship, slice of life, daily life, friend, high school student, board game, coming of age, everyday life, teenage girl, teenage protagonist, satire ...
Place:
hiroshima japan
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on Harutoshi Fukui's novel Shuusen no Lorelei.
Style:
stylized, suspenseful, exciting, serious, dieselpunk
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
submarine, world war two, underwater, secret weapon, danger, escapades, war, military, military life, heroic mission, soldier, save the world ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, post world war two
Place:
japan, hiroshima japan, asia, pacific ocean
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The story follows 27-year-old Tokyo office worker Mire Yoshizuki who just returned to Japan, 22-year-old fourth-year college student Sora Nagase who aspires to be a teacher, and 20-year-old boyish, part-time Hiroshima okonomiyaki shop worker and ...
Style:
anime, entertaining, captivating, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
magical girl, friendship, fantasy world, female protagonist, magic, women, nostalgia, female friendship, wizard, wizards and magicians, friends, magical power ...
Place:
tokyo, hiroshima japan
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Genre: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Shiori is a star university student with an incredible palate for wine who dreams of studying winemaking in France. However, to her dismay she is assigned to a rural sake brewery for her internship. To make matters worse, upon arrival she discovers ...
Style:
light, entertaining, romantic, captivating, heartfelt ...
Plot:
japanese girl, relationship vs career, male female relationship, relationships, fall in love, love and romance, love affair, romantic relationship, love story, female student, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, coming of age ...
Place:
hiroshima japan
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Genre: Biography
Country: Japan, Cuba
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Freddy Maemura Hurtado, a second-generation Japanese-Bolivian, heads to Cuba to study medicine. He meets revolutionist Che Guevara. When civil war breaks out in Bolivia, he decides to join Guevara’s revolutionary army under the name of “Ernesto ...
Style:
captivating, serious, exciting, disturbing
Plot:
freedom fighter, heroism, military, soldier, coup d'etat, betrayal, imperialism, traitor, military dictatorship, american imperialism, labor, union ...
Place:
bolivia, cuba, hiroshima japan, japan, soviet union ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
Well-intentioned history lesson; the decision to drop the atom bomb, the secrecy surrounding the mission, and the men who flew it.
Style:
captivating, bleak, rough, serious, realistic
Plot:
world war two, atomic bomb, world war, usa history, bomber, battles, secret place, nuclear holocaust, super weapon, moral dilemma, heroes, military ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hiroshima japan, usa, japan, asia, pacific ocean
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her ...
Style:
touching, serious, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, world war two, life is a bitch, japanese military, nationalism, parents and children, wartime life, political unrest, single parent, unsupportive parent, state affairs, death in the family ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
japan, hiroshima japan, asia, tokyo
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
After Shogo Ogami’s death in Hiroshima, Detective Shuichi Hioka successfully implemented Shogo Ogami’s plan, which was to control the yakuza to prevent further gang wars and save innocent people from getting harmed. Shuichi Hioka manages the ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
yakuza, fighting crime, gangster, gang, organized crime, police detective, gang leader, bandit, criminal, mafia, mob hit, fight ...
Place:
japan, hiroshima japan
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 179 min.
Story:
The only movie theater on the Onomichi seafront is about to close its doors. Its last night of screenings will be an all-night marathon of Japanese war films. When lightning strikes the theater, three young men in the audience find themselves thrown ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, suspense, bleak, poignant ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
time paradox, anti war, wartime, sent to the past, changing the past or future, time loop, theatrical troupe, time jump, time traveler, back in time, save the day, destiny ...
Place:
hiroshima japan
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland, UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Soon after the break of the pandemic and realizing that his clock is ticking, Kristofer gets the urge to embark on a journey to try to find out what really happened when his Japanese girlfriend mysteriously vanished without a trace from London fifty ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, romantic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
first love, love, looking for love, love and romance, romantic relationship, love interest, obsessive quest, love story, newborn baby, baby, job interview, birthday ...
Time:
2020s, year 1969
Place:
iceland, japan, london, hiroshima japan
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A film with no spoken dialogue, just follows the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem, which include WWI soldier poet Wilfred Owen's poems reflecting the war's horrors. It shows the story of an Englishman soldier ...
Style:
experimental, cult classic, independent film, contemplative, thought provoking ...
Plot:
world war one, military, vietnam war, teddy bear, snow, boy, world war, art, underground, battles, soldier, anti war ...
Place:
hiroshima japan
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
A fictional documentary about the creation of the world's first time machine, the men who created it, and the unintended ramifications it has on world events.
Style:
slasher, mockumentary, psychotronic
Plot:
time travel, found footage, time, world war two, loss of mother, moon landing, kgb, cia, inventor, albert einstein, nixon, death of mother ...
Time:
1940s, year 1985, year 1990, year 1987, year 1996 ...
Place:
hiroshima japan
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In the year 3000, the nuclear war that has ravaged planet Earth 500 years earlier seems almost a distant memory. A new greener and bluer world flourished from the ashes of the old, a new world has been taken over by giant moths.
Style:
psychotronic
Plot:
creature feature, space, napoleonic wars, world war one, drug, butterfly, survival, humanoid, planet earth, army, hitler, government ...
Place:
hiroshima japan, soviet union, england, britain, ussr
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his granddaughter who brings him a letter from his ...
Style:
melancholic, poignant, lyrical, period drama, bilingual
Plot:
world war two, memory, family history, nostalgia, memories, immigration, elderly man, racism, inheritance, intimate, identity crisis, veteran ...
Place:
hawaii, hiroshima japan, pearl harbor
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
Based on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East of 1946–48, depicts Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo (played by Masahiko Tsugawa) as a family man who fought to defend Japan and Asia from western colonialism but was ultimately ...
Style:
historical drama, serious, period piece, political thriller, grim
Plot:
world war two, courtroom drama, war crime, asian history, imperial japan, international law, militarism, moral ambiguity, patriotism, family life, justice, trial ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two
Place:
japan, hiroshima japan, tokyo, pearl harbor
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
One man show about the presidency of Harry S Truman.
Style:
minimal cast, independent film, political, political comedy, one man show
Plot:
u.s. president, president, korean war, usa president, real life, husband wife relationship, political election, world war, nixon, constitution, biopic, parents ...
Time:
year 1975, 1950s, 1940s, year 1948, 50s
Place:
seattle, japan, washington state, missouri, america ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
In her search for answers, 17-year-old Haru sets out on a long journey across the country to the town where, in 2011, the devastating tsunami swept away her brother and parents. This road trip takes the young woman, who is still haunted by her loss, ...
Style:
independent film, road movie, intercultural, crying
Plot:
high school student, sadness, schoolgirl, tsunami, coming of age, disaster, human relationship, earthquake, reproduction, old age, dead daughter, escape ...
Place:
japan, hiroshima japan
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Director Joseph Mankiewicz's first work for television, the 90-minute ABC drama was publicized as having an all-star cast (which meant that names of some supporting cast members were not officially released). In Rod Serling's update of ...
Style:
christmas horror, christmas classics, black and white, historical drama, bleak ...
Plot:
christmas, christmas carol, charles dickens, ruins, loss of son, redemption, world war one, christmas eve, xmas, scrooge, industrialist, afterlife ...
Time:
year 1918, year 1945, 1940s, 1910s
Place:
hiroshima japan
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. ...
Style:
captivating, tense, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
atomic bomb, world war two, nuclear holocaust, nuclear war, super weapon, nuclear, cold war, bombing, holocaust, war, terrorism, atomic weapons ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new mexico, london, hiroshima japan, chicago ...
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Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.
Style:
anime, political, disturbing, adult animation
Plot:
radiation sickness, starvation, virus outbreak, bombing, post apocalyptic, nuclear disaster, nuclear holocaust, post war, nuclear fallout, group, radiation, child abuse ...
Place:
hiroshima japan, japan
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza...
Style:
grindhouse, exciting, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
yakuza, organized crime, betrayal, mafia, gang, gang war, crime family, nude girl, tough guy, humanity, battles, japanese mafia ...
Time:
post world war two, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
hiroshima japan, japan, asia, tokyo
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the yakuza. He is partnered with Detective Shuichi Hioka and they investigate a missing person case ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense
Plot:
yakuza, police, gang warfare, japanese police, investigation, partners against crime, fighting crime, gang war, partner, fight for supremacy, police detective, outlaw gang ...
Time:
80s
Place:
hiroshima japan, japan
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