THEME EXPLORATION

postwar Tokyo

11 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Orpheus
Orpheus
1950 · Jean Cocteau
All of Myself
All of Myself
1954 · Kon Ichikawa
Beautiful Days
Beautiful Days
1955 · Masaki Kobayashi
Drunken Angel
Drunken Angel
1948 · Akira Kurosawa
For Better, for Worse
For Better, for Worse
1954 · J. Lee Thompson
Morning’s Tree-Lined Street
Morning’s Tree-Lined Street
1936 · Mikio Naruse
The Rats
The Rats
1955 · Robert Siodmak
The Search
The Search
1948 · Fred Zinnemann
Törst
Törst
1949 · Ingmar Bergman
Enter the Void
Enter the Void
2010 · Gaspar Noé
Oh... Rosalinda!!
Oh... Rosalinda!!
1955 · Michael Powell
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Yasujirō Ozu Japan

His films like 'Tokyo Story' and 'Late Spring' intimately capture the quiet devastation and moral reconstruction of postwar Tokyo through domestic family dramas.

 Akira Kurosawa Japan

Works such as 'No Regrets for Our Youth' and 'Ikiru' directly explore postwar Tokyo's social chaos, poverty, and the struggle to find meaning in a defeated nation.