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Nearly 20 years after his death, Toshiro Mifune remains a giant of Japanese cinema. Rich with archive footage and personal reminiscences from family and friends, this Keanu Reeves-narrated documentary shines...
This is a multi-award winning documentary about Unit 731, Japan’s secret World War II biological and chemical weapons facility in the Chinese town of Harbin where biological weapons were developed during...
Three documentaries on Emperor Hirohito who ruled Japan from December 25, 1926 until his death in 1989. His reign was the longest of any historical Japanese emperor, and he oversaw many significant changes...
Feature film of As You Like It set in 19th century Japan. Adapted for the screen and directed by Kenneth Branagh with David Oyelowo as Orlando and Bryce Dallas Howard as Rosalind.
Kurosawa’s only adaptation of a Dostoevsky novel. His dramatisation uproots the novel’s Russian summer setting to a snowbound Hokkaido the northernmost island of Japan. DVD extras: newly restored...
Illustrates the construction of Seikan Tunnel, the world’s longest underwater tunnel, linking the Japanse islands of Hokkaido and Honshu under the Tsungaru Strait and completed in 1988. The tunnel runs for...
Historical materials relating to the Nanjing (Nanking) massacre, committed in December 1937 by the Japanese army in China. Includes 1000 pictures, 350,00 words of illustration and testimony in Chinese,...
With the end of the Cold War there is no longer any clearly identified ‘enemy’ against which the USA can deploy military defences in the Pacific, but the US military presence is still huge, especially in...
Documentary films by Japanese Nagisa Oshima and Korean director Jang Sun-Woo. See synopses under individual part titles.
The story of the building of the Burma-Thailand railway by British prisoners of war during World War 2, combining the recollections of ex-prisoners who were involved with Japanese propaganda films of the time.
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