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Barefoot Gen (1983)
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people. Based on the acclaimed manga by Nakazawa Keiji, the author of Barefoot Gen, who was 6 years old ...
Style: anime, disturbing, adult animation, heartbreaking, political ...
Audience: kids
Plot: world war two, nuclear holocaust, anti war, disaster, atomic bomb, radioactivity, radiation sickness, bombing, atrocity, demolished city, burned alive, contamination ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia, hiroshima japan
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War of the Worlds (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Russia, Japan, Mexico, South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop of his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, futuristic, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly, teens, boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, alien invasion, alien, end of the world, survival, disaster, invasion, space and aliens, destruction, creature, evil alien, catastrophe ...
Time: year 2005, future, jurassic, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, los angeles, boston ...
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Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: "Listen: Billie Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." Slaughterhouse-Five is an award-winning 1972 film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel of the same name. Director Hill faithfully renders for the screen Vonnegut's obsessive story ...
Style: surreal, atmospheric, philosophical, non-linear, talky ...
Plot: world war two, time travel, assassination, surrealism, sent to the future, parents and children, alien encounter, imaginary, space and aliens, war, family relations, distopia ...
Time: future, 1940s, 1900s, 20th century, 1930s ...
Place: indiana, europe, new england, philadelphia, montana ...
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Kundun (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Monaco, Morocco, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation. The Dalai ...
Style: epic, philosophical, spiritual, cerebral, touching ...
Plot: buddhism, buddha, buddhist monk, biopic, religion, buddhist, medieval, politics, spirituality, historical epic, zen, world history ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 50s, 1930s, 1950s
Place: tibet, china, hiroshima japan, asia, himalaya ...
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The Little House (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which the old lady has recorded her memories. This is how he learns the truth about her youth working as ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: love affair, fall in love, master and servant, family relations, secret love, letter, funeral, society, feminist, asian, biopic, love ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s, year 1941
Place: japan, asia, pearl harbor, hiroshima japan
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Drive My Car (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 179 min.
Story: Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanja at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to ...
Style: poetic, slow cinema, art house, inspirational, relaxing ...
Plot: infidelity, driver, japanese wife, stage play, snow, loss of wife, grief, audition, asian, amor, anton chekhov, car ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s
Place: japan, hiroshima japan, tokyo
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Insignificance (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Four 1950s cultural icons (Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Senator Joseph MacCarthy) who conceivably could have met but probably didn't, fictionally do so in this modern fable of post-WWII America. Visually intriguing, the ...
Style: philosophical, cerebral, realistic, clever, witty ...
Plot: hotel, mccarthyism, satire, baseball, guilt, hotel room, cold war, alternate history, women, art, couples, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 1950s, year 1985, 20th century, 50s, year 1954
Place: new york, hiroshima japan
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Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: During WWII, a human heart taken from Dr. Frankenstein's lab and is kept in Japan where it gets exposed to the radiation of the bombing of Hiroshima. The heart grows in size, mutates and eventually becomes an indestuctable humanoid. Later, a ...
Style: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, daikaiju ...
Plot: frankenstein, giant monster, godzilla, world war two, scientist, false accusation, kaiju, mutant, rescue, deadly creature, supernatural, experiment gone awry ...
Time: year 1945, 1940s, 60s
Place: japan, germany, hiroshima japan, tokyo, asia ...
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The Face of Jizo (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of 1948, as the ghost of her father visits Mitsué (Rié Miyama). He had somehow learned that she has ...
Style: minimal cast, retro
Plot: world war two, atomic bomb, father daughter relationship, one location
Place: hiroshima japan
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Little Boy (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, sad, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: world war two, faith, spirituality, wartime life, childhood, wartime, coming of age, racial discrimination, christian, survival, boy, courage ...
Time: year 2015, 1940s, 20th century
Place: japan, germany, usa, hiroshima japan
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Mr. Holmes (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Family, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The story is set in 1947, following a long-retired Holmes living in a Sussex village with his housekeeper and rising detective son. But then he finds himself haunted by an unsolved 50-year old case. Holmes' memory isn't what it used to be, ...
Style: enigmatic, meditative, tense, dramatic, detective ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: sherlock holmes, private detective, aging, elderly, uncover truth, character study, one last case, haunted by the past, who done it, memory, suicide, retirement ...
Time: year 2015, 1940s, edwardian era, future, year 1947 ...
Place: england, japan, britain, europe, london ...
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The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 5: Final Episode (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode is part five and the final installation of a series of yakuza films directed by Kinji Fukasaku. In the wake of a big police crackdown, Akira Kobayashi's icily sun- glassed Takeda attempts to ...
Plot: yakuza, prison, sex, battles, murder, mafia, mob hit, mob boss, political party, corruption, arrest, gang war ...
Place: japan
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