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Kanopy
87
8.1
/36416/
82
/765/
79
/652/
4.4
/60706/
90
/52/
93
/726/
84
/28/

Farewell My Concubine (1993)
In an epic tale of theater, gender, love and class, two Beijing opera actors navigate political turmoil as their friendship evolves over decades.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
7.7
/118344/
75
/2734/
75
/1846/
3.9
/80082/
86
/126/
88
/1366/
76
/15/
cc age 14+

The Last Emperor (1987)
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
81
8.5
/10837/
82
/306/
81
/270/
4.5
/32508/
73
/15/
95
/56/

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
poster
Criterion Channel
86
80
8.5
/8679/
82
/227/
82
/211/
4.5
/23248/
94
/897/

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959)
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
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Kanopy
81
79
7.7
/12372/
76
/311/
74
/229/
4.0
/6596/
92
/53/
86
/275/
85
/13/

City of Life and Death (2009)
In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.
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Netflix
79
8.0
/241872/
81
/8183/
77
/3990/
4.0
/117452/
86
/29/
93
/2841/
59
/9/
cc age 13+

Ip Man (2008)
A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun. The film focuses on events surrounding Ip that took place in the city of Foshan between the 1930s to 1940s during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Directed by Wilson Yip, the film stars Donnie Yen in the lead role, and features fight choreography by Sammo Hung.
poster
Criterion Channel
89
78
8.8
/8486/
86
/212/
84
/202/
4.6
/25705/
97
/28/

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.
poster
84
78
8.2
/9284/
84
/193/
82
/180/
4.3
/5486/
91
/11/
95
/95/
70
/7/

Devils on the Doorstep (2001)
During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the next New Year, at which time they will be collected. The village leaders convene to interrogate the prisoners. The townspeople then struggle to accommodate the prisoners. One is a bellicose Japanese nationalist, the other a nervous translator. Will the townspeople manage to keep the prisoners until the New Year?
poster
74
7.5
/48009/
74
/953/
72
/763/
4.0
/38336/
73
/149/
84
/6736/
61
/35/
cc age 18+

Lust, Caution (2007)
During World War II, a secret agent must seduce and assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai.
poster
74
7.7
/141443/
76
/3148/
75
/2053/
3.9
/106589/
75
/67/
90
/3542/
62
/22/
cc age 14+

Empire of the Sun (1987)
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.
poster
The Roku Channel
69
6.6
/38374/
67
/1395/
66
/947/
3.6
/38696/
78
/139/
59
/656/
73
/37/
cc age 14+

The Grandmaster (2013)
Ip Man's peaceful life in Foshan changes after Gong Yutian seeks an heir for his family in Southern China. Ip Man then meets Gong Er who challenges him for the sake of regaining her family's honor. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man moves to Hong Kong and struggles to provide for his family. In the mean time, Gong Er chooses the path of vengeance after her father was killed by Ma San.
poster
75
64
7.4
/4490/
72
/132/
74
/113/
3.7
/1563/
85
/112/

The Message (2009)
After a series of assassinations in Nanking, a Japanese spy master gathers a group of suspects in a mansion, then a tense cat-and-mouse game erupts as the Chinese agent tries to keep his or her identity a secret.
poster
78
64
7.7
/3663/
71
/93/
71
/52/
3.6
/677/
96
/46/
88
/296/
76
/19/

Nanking (2007)
The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Japanese army murdered over 200,000 and raped tens of thousands of Chinese. In the midst of this horror, a small group of Western expatriates banded together to save 250,000. Nanking shows the tremendous impact individuals can make on the course of history.
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Kanopy
63
7.5
/57995/
74
/1182/
74
/865/
3.7
/18271/
41
/58/
74
/610/
46
/22/
cc age 18+

The Flowers of War (2011)
A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
poster
Hoopla
70
61
7.2
/6941/
73
/167/
71
/125/
3.5
/1214/
75
/36/
74
/80/
57
/15/

John Rabe (2009)
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
poster
59
7.0
/10186/
69
/216/
67
/163/
3.3
/1206/
29
/76/
66
/728/
49
/22/

The Children of Huang Shi (2008)
About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.
poster
59
56
6.1
/8112/
61
/259/
62
/234/
3.1
/9232/
52
/127/

Men Behind the Sun (1988)
Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to unit 731, where they're horribly tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons.
poster
The Roku Channel
50
5.8
/5268/
61
/318/
60
/145/
2.8
/2161/
40
/35/
45
/30/
47
/12/
cc age 10+

Railroad Tigers (2016)
A railroad worker in China in 1941 leads a team of freedom fighters against the Japanese in order to get food for the poor.
poster
59
46
6.9
/3939/
70
/119/
65
/80/
3.5
/952/
36
/11/
63
/34/
41
/6/

Back to 1942 (2012)
In 1942, Henan Province was devastated by one of the most tragic famines in modern Chinese history, resulting in the deaths of at least three million men, women and children. Although the primary cause of the famine was a severe drought, it was exacerbated by locusts, windstorms, earthquakes, epidemic disease and the corruption of the ruling Kuomintang government.
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Hoopla
45
6.3
/10767/
58
/290/
61
/182/
2.9
/1848/
4
/23/
37
/163/
36
/14/
cc age 16+

Shanghai (2010)
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
63
39
6.3
/2021/
66
/127/
72
/221/
3.1
/1079/
56
/13/

The Chinese Widow (2017)
It’s 1941 and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has destroyed America’s morale. The US President Franklin D. Roosevelt then decides to risk it all by bombing Tokyo and raise more hope for his citizens. After completing its mission, a unit of the US Air Force is forced to make an emergency landing in China. Its commander Jack Turner (Emilie Hirsch) barely survives but gets rescued by Ying (Crystal Liu), a local widow who will stop at nothing to hide him from the Japanese occupant.
poster
59
38
6.1
/1391/
61
/27/
66
/21/
3.4
/996/
43
/21/
45
/55/
68
/12/

Purple Butterfly (2003)
Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai. An unexpected encounter reunites her with Itami, an ex-lover and officer with a secret police unit tasked with dismantling Purple Butterfly.
poster
74
34
7.3
/1540/
71
/42/
67
/44/
3.7
/1132/
85
/5/

The Little House (2014)
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 a housemaid and nanny for the Hirai family in a little house in Tokyo with a red gabled roof.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
35
33
3.2
/5057/
46
/487/
51
/281/
1.8
/1268/
12
/66/

Air Strike (2018)
An American pilot is sent to a Chinese province to teach a crew of would-be pilots how to fly war planes against the Japanese during World War II.
poster
60
32
5.7
/1270/
63
/108/
56
/50/
3.1
/349/
60
/5/
62
/13/
cc age 13+

On Wings of Eagles (2016)
Eric Liddell - China's first gold medalist and one of Scotland's greatest athletes - returns to war-torn China.
poster
60
26
5.0
/1165/
40
/8/
80
/6/
73

The Resistance (2011)
  In 1937, Japan began their invasion of China by murdering over 300,000 people in the capital of Nanjing. The atrocities committed against women and their daughters are especially barbaric. One of them is Xiaoyun, a peasant girl who fights with the Chinese resistance group. On her way to freedom she must fight against Japanese soldiers, ninjas, a killer geisha, Nazis, and the evil General of the Japanese imperial army.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
66
16
7.0
/864/
65
/19/
65
/14/
3.4
/420/

Why We Fight: The Battle of China (1944)
The sixth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series illustrates Japan's occupation of China, including Madame Chiang Kai-Shek's stirring address before congress, the rape of Nanking, the great 2,000 mile migration, and Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers.
poster
64
?
6.8
/31/
60
/3/
60
/1/
3.5
/323/

The Forest of Miss Tang (2023)
It portrays a Teochew family over six generations in Swatow, China, from the 19th century to the present. As background, the film will set under the great upheavals of China and the temptation to migrate.
poster
?
6.8
/77/

Purple Mountain (2008)
Personal accounts from the Japanese occupation of Eastern China during the 1930s when many innocent civilians were slaughtered by the Japanese military. Based on Iris Chang's "The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II".
poster
?
8.0
/90/
65
/4/
77
/3/

Pearl Harbor: The world on fire (2021)
Hawaii, Pacific Ocean. In this heavenly place, one of the most memorable battles of the Second World War took place 80 years ago. On December 7, 1941, at 7:53 am, a Japanese air squadron struck the American fleet which anchored in the waters of Pearl Harbor. The United States were struck at the heart of their defensive system and entered the conflict the very next day. How Pearl Harbor changed the face of World War II and therefore the face of the world? What are the diplomatic undersides of Pearl Harbor? Was the attack really a surprise attack? Is it really a Japanese victory?
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?
7.1
/28/
72
/4/
70
/1/

Shanghai 1937: Where World War II Began (2018)
The Battle of Shanghai has been described as the last battle of World War I, and the first battle of World War II. It was a warning to the world, a warning that was ignored. And it was the place where the destiny of modern China was set in motion. Based on the book “Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze” by Danish author Peter Harmsen, this film introduces key figures in the conflict, chronicles how the battle unfolded over the course of three months, and explores the aftermath and years of war that followed.
poster
53
?
6.7
/292/
10
/1/
85
/2/

Don't Cry, Nanking (1995)
In December 1937, during the Second Japanese-Sino War, a Chinese doctor, his Japanese pregnant wife, their teenage daughter and their young son travel from Shanghai to Nanjing seeking shelter in the Capital during the Japanese invasion. The family faces the Rape of Nanking by the Imperial Japanese Army, with rapes, mass murder of prisoners of war and civilians including women, children and elders, and disrespect of international conventions.
poster
45
?
4.6
/138/
40
/2/
50
/4/

East Wind Rain (2010)
Year 1941, a roll of film is delivered to Shanghai and a Chinese spy named Gong An Ming (Liu Yun Long) must decide what he should do with the film, which turns out containing a great secret that could shock the whole world. He discovers the plan code named 'East Wind Rain' and passes the information to the American that their territory will soon be invaded by the Japanese. The code is aired during the weather report from Radio Tokyo on Dec 4, 1941. While in Shanghai An Ming meets with a singer cum pianist, Huan Yan (Fan Bing Bing) and falls in love with her, not realizing that she is also one of the spies. Soon An Ming realizes that his effort found no success and have been ignored due to some reason. And now by risking his own life he must also decide whether to make Huan Yan his lover or his enemy? Will the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor in the end? Which country is Huan Yan working as a spy for? Will An Ming get caught by his enemy?
poster
48
?
5.4
/276/
47
/7/
43
/3/

Eternal Wave (2017)
Lin Xiang and Lan Fang, who is pretending to be his wife, are sent to Shanghai to rebuild the underground headquarters and help liberate China from the Japanese invaders.
poster
58
?
4.2
/121/
80
/3/
52
/7/

The Hundred Regiments Offensive (2015)
The Japanese has invaded far into china, defeating the Kuomintang (KMT) soldiers many times and pushing them back into Central China. There was a general sentiment among anti-Japanese resistance forces that the Communist Party of China (CCP) was not contributing enough to the war, and that they were only interested in expanding their power. As a result, the CCP planned a major offensive against the Japanese, consisting of 105 regiments, called the Hundred Regiments Offensive.
poster
55
?
7.2
/209/
52
/4/
65
/2/

The Bloody Battle of Taierzhuang (1986)
The Chinese army stops the Japanese army in 1938 at Suzhou.
poster
?

This is China (1937)
This black & white educational film is about life in China, the Japanese invasion of China, and Chinese Nationalist efforts to defend itself against the Japanese aggression. This film was made in 1937 as part of an effort to raise awareness in the then-neutral USA about Japanese intentions in the Far East.
poster
?

The Eyes of Dawn (2014)
A remake in part of his earlier "comfort women" film (Comfort Women, 1994), which explored the exploitation of various Chinese women forced to provide ‘entertainment’ for the Japanese army during their occupation of China.


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