Cradle

The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Flyora into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Flyora finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the ...

Runtime

2h 22m

Director

Elem Klimov

Cast

Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevičius

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist. His wife Kayo works frantically from morning to night to maintain the household and bring up her two daughters with the support of Shigeru's sister Hisako and Shigeru's ex-student Yamazak...

Runtime

2h 13m

Director

Yoji Yamada

Cast

Mirai Shida, Tadanobu Asano, Chieko Baisho

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 i...

Runtime

2h 19m

Director

Jiang Wen

Cast

Jiang Hongbo, Teruyuki Kagawa, David Wu

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.

Runtime

1h 45m

Director

Mou Tun-Fei

Cast

Gang Wang, Wang Runshen, Mei Zhaohua

A tribute to the U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team, formed in 1943 by Presidential permission with Japanese-American volunteers. We follow the training of a platoon under the rueful command of Lt. Mike Grayson who shares common prejudices of the time. The 442nd serve in Italy, then France, distinguishing themselves in skirmishes and ba...

Runtime

1h 32m

Director

Robert Pirosh

Cast

Van Johnson, Lane Nakano, George Miki