The Lost Generation

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

住井すゑ 百歳の人間宣言

Vietnam no dâchan

A Japanese journalist reunites with a girl who lost her family in the Vietnam War

Kāsan no ki

A mother fights to reverse her dismissal from her job as a telephone operator

The Class of the Sewage Canal

The struggle of a young man and boys who try to create the environment where they can speak their minds freely.

Tokyo Air Raid Glass Rabbit

Based on an autobiographical novel by Toshiko Takagi, set close to the end of World War II

Barefoot Gen 2

Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.

Black Rain

Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic bombing, a tragedy that cruelly took the lives of thousands of people and forever marked the harsh existence of the survivors.

The Endless Summer

Bruce Brown's The Endless Summer is one of the first and most influential surf movies of all time. The film documents American surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August as they travel the world during California’s winter (which, back in 1965 was off-season for surfing) in search of the perfect wave and ultimately, an endless summer.