THEME EXPLORATION

postwar Japan

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Conflagration
Conflagration
1958 · Kon Ichikawa
The Sun's Burial
The Sun's Burial
1960 · Nagisa Oshima
Tokyo Story
Tokyo Story
1953 · Yasujirō Ozu
Harakiri
Harakiri
1962 · Masaki Kobayashi
Orpheus
Orpheus
1950 · Jean Cocteau
For Better, for Worse
For Better, for Worse
1954 · J. Lee Thompson
House of Bamboo
House of Bamboo
1955 · Samuel Fuller
Le Mystère Koumiko
Le Mystère Koumiko
1965 · Chris Marker
The Rats
The Rats
1955 · Robert Siodmak
The Only Son
The Only Son
1914 · Cecil B. DeMille
The Search
The Search
1948 · Fred Zinnemann
Tokyo-ga
Tokyo-ga
1985 · Wim Wenders
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Akira Kurosawa Japan

His early works like 'No Regrets for Our Youth' and 'Ikiru' directly confront postwar Japanese society's moral questions and individual struggle within institutional systems.

 Masaki Kobayashi Japan

His masterpiece 'The Human Condition' trilogy is a profound examination of Japanese identity, militarism's legacy, and humanistic values in the postwar reconstruction era.