The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts and moves with his newlywed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, h...

Runtime

3h 24m

Director

Masaki Kobayashi

Cast

Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima

Kaji, sent to the Japanese army labeled Red, witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against a fellow recruit. He also sees his friend Shinjô defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.

Runtime

2h 58m

Director

Masaki Kobayashi

Cast

Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Kokinji Katsura

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 a...

Runtime

2h 33m

Director

Steven Spielberg

Cast

Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds w...

Runtime

2h 4m

Director

Nagisa Ōshima

Cast

David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto

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 ...

Runtime

2h 43m

Director

Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast

John Lone, Peter O'Toole, Joan Chen

Four friends pretend a cruise to escape their wives and go clubbing, but they are forced to go through face-saving shipwreck, becoming castaways.

Runtime

1h 38m

Director

Eduardo García Maroto

Cast

Antonio Vico, Mary Santpere, Fernando Rey

In XVII century Portugal two friends change identities so one of them can escape an unwanted marriage to Beatriz.

Runtime

1h 27m

Director

Eduardo García Maroto

Cast

Virgílio Teixeira, Margarita Andrey, María Isbert