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1. Midway (2019)
PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Drama, History
The story of the Battle of Midway, told by the leaders and the sailors who fought it.
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Luke Evans
Votes: 94,491 | Gross: $56.85M
2. The Last Emperor (1987)
PG-13 | 163 min | Biography, Drama, History
Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatisation of the life story of China's last emperor, Pu Yi.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying
Votes: 111,540 | Gross: $43.98M
3. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
PG-13 | 126 min | Drama, Thriller
An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury
Votes: 79,840
4. Man Behind the Sun (1988)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, History, Horror
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.
Director: Tun-Fei Mou | Stars: Gang Wang, Dai Yao Wu, Runshen Wang, Zhe Quan
Votes: 7,281
5. The Grandmaster (2013)
PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The story of martial-arts master Ip Man, the man who trained Bruce Lee.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Ziyi Zhang, Jin Zhang, Chang Chen
Votes: 36,801 | Gross: $6.59M
6. Horror Express (1972)
R | 88 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
While on the Trans-Siberian Express, an anthropologist and his rival must contain the threat posed by the former's cargo: a prehistoric ape which is the host for a parasitic life-form.
Director: Eugenio Martín | Stars: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alberto de Mendoza, Telly Savalas
Votes: 12,770
7. Millennium Actress (2001)
PG | 87 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
A TV interviewer and his cameraman meet a former actress and travel through her memories and career.
Directors: Satoshi Kon, Kô Matsuo | Stars: Miyoko Shôji, Shôzô Îzuka, Mami Koyama, Fumiko Orikasa
Votes: 32,086 | Gross: $0.19M
8. The Good the Bad the Weird (2008)
R | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The story of two outlaws and a bounty hunter in 1940s Manchuria and their rivalry to possess a treasure map while being pursued by the Japanese army and Chinese bandits.
Director: Jee-woon Kim | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, Jung Woo-sung, Yun Je-mun
Votes: 37,937 | Gross: $0.13M
9. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (I) (1959)
Not Rated | 208 min | Drama, History, War
A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima, Ineko Arima
Votes: 9,362
10. Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983)
TV-MA | 720 min | Crime, Drama
A dramatization of the missions and adventures of the greatest spy in British history.
Stars: Sam Neill, Michael Bryant, Norman Rodway, Tom Bell
Votes: 1,692
11. The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan (2019 Video Game)
M | 227 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Four friends and their captain set sail on a holiday diving trip to find a rumored WWII wreck, but as the day unfolds, a storm rolls in and soon their trip changes into something much more sinister.
Director: Tom Heaton | Stars: Shawn Ashmore, Ayisha Issa, Arielle Palik, Chris Sandiford
Votes: 3,467
12. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
Not Rated | 190 min | Drama, History, War
His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Tamao Nakamura, Yûsuke Kawazu
Votes: 7,336
13. Maruta 2: Laboratory of the Devil (1992)
96 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
In the spring of 1935, Japan established a secret base, Unit 731 in Manchuria, where many innocent Chinese, Korean and Mongolian people were killed in grotesque experiments. An idealistic ... See full summary »
Director: Godfrey Ho | Stars: Yishou Jiang, Yuen-Ching Leung, Xingqiang Li, Dingyao Liu
Votes: 665
14. Wife of a Spy (2020 TV Movie)
115 min | Drama, History, War
A Japanese merchant who leaves his wife behind in order to travel to Manchuria, where he witnesses an act of barbarism. His subsequent actions cause misunderstanding, jealousy and legal problems for his wife.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Yû Aoi, Issei Takahashi, Masahiro Higashide, Ryôta Bandô
Votes: 3,111
15. The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (II) (1959)
Not Rated | 181 min | Drama, History, War
As a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist struggles to maintain his determination to keep his ideals.
Director: Masaki Kobayashi | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Kokinji Katsura, Jun Tatara
Votes: 7,506
16. Story of a Prostitute (1965)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance, War
In WW2 Manchuria, a prostitute grows to resent an abusive adjutant and falls in love with his aide.
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Tamio Kawaji, Yumiko Nogawa, Isao Tamagawa, Shôichi Ozawa
Votes: 1,603
17. Black Belt (2007)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Drama, Sport
A Karate master's three students join the army and go their separate ways, later to unite to battle together against corruption and uphold tradition.
Director: Shunichi Nagasaki | Stars: Akihito Yagi, Tatsuya Naka, Yûji Suzuki, Kenji Anan
Votes: 1,680
18. Room 731 (2015)
16 min | Short, Horror, Mystery
In this supernatural mystery, The Grudge meets Saw, an amnesiac girl wakes up in what appears to be an abandoned jail, where she is haunted by spirits who want to torture her.
Director: Young Min Kim | Stars: Kim Yoo-jung, Tim Kang, Nikki SooHoo, Mariko Denda
Votes: 110
19. The Battle of Port Arthur (1980)
185 min | Drama, History, War
The lives and battles of soldiers leading up to the 1904 siege of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.
Director: Toshio Masuda | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Teruhiko Aoi, Toshirô Mifune, Hisaya Morishige
Votes: 338
20. Men Behind the Sun 3: A Narrow Escape (1994)
93 min | Drama
During the shut down and destruction of the Japanese test camp Squadron 731 in Manchuria, a soldier becomes infected with a virus developed during the camp's testing and risks spreading it into Japan on the train ride home.
Director: Godfrey Ho | Stars: Te-Lo Mai, Andrew Yu, Gong Zhu
Votes: 305
21. Black Test Car (1962)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.
Director: Yasuzô Masumura | Stars: Jirô Tamiya, Junko Kanô, Eiji Funakoshi, Hideo Takamatsu
Votes: 629
22. Battle of the Japan Sea (1969)
G | 128 min | Drama, History, War
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan.
Director: Seiji Maruyama | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûzô Kayama, Chishû Ryû
Votes: 277
23. The Showdown (2011)
111 min | Action, Drama, History
After a battle between Joseon and Qing forces in Manchuria only three soldiers from Joseon survive. They take refuge in an abandoned inn. Soon it is clear that they have as much to fear from each other as from the Qing forces.
Director: Park Hoon-jung | Stars: Park Hee-soon, Jin Goo, Ko Chang-seok, Kim Kap-su
Votes: 392
24. Roar of the Dragon (1932)
Passed | 69 min | Adventure, Romance
A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the group is led by the boat's Captain ... See full summary »
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Richard Dix, Gwili Andre, Edward Everett Horton, Arline Judge
Votes: 251
25. Across the Pacific (2020)
History
This is a 3 part series from PBS, following WW1, airline executive Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh
Stars: Christopher Cassarino, Brad Koed, Brian Muller, Sergey Nagorny
Votes: 70
26. Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War (1957)
113 min | Drama, History, War
Meiji Tenno portrayed the ramp up to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also showed the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan ... See full summary »
Director: Kunio Watanabe | Stars: Kanjûrô Arashi, Kusuo Abe, Minoru Takada, Shin Takemura
Votes: 39
27. The Chinese Exclusion Act (2017)
TV-PG | 114 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here to become U.S. citizens.
Directors: Ric Burns, Li-Shin Yu | Stars: Hoon Lee, Mae Ngai, Jean Pfaelzer, David Lei
Votes: 104
28. Flüchtlinge (1933)
87 min | Adventure, Drama, War
Propaganda film detailing the plight of ethnic Germans, known as "Volga Germans", in the Soviet province of Manchuria.
Director: Gustav Ucicky | Stars: Hans Albers, Käthe von Nagy, Eugen Klöpfer, Ida Wüst
Votes: 66
29. Général Ishiwara - L'homme qui déclencha la guerre (2012 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, Biography, History
From 1889 to 1949, General Ishiwara's military, ideological and political career took in the key moments of Japanese History, in a most spectacular way: the forced opening to the West, Hiroshima, the China war and Pearl Harbour.
Director: Paul Jenkins | Stars: Luce Mouchel, Frédéric Pellegeay, Ikuhiko Hata, Yôichi Higuchi
Votes: 26
30. Beast of the East (1948)
78 min | Drama, War
Recreation of the widespread rapes and murders of Filipina women by Japanese soldiers during WWII.
Directors: Carlos Vander Tolosa, William H. Jansen | Stars: Linda Estrella, Fernando Royo, Mona Lisa, Teddy Benavidez
Votes: 30
31. Menace of the Rising Sun (1942)
21 min | Documentary, Short
Horror over the Pacific in the form of Japanese perfidy is the theme of this special two reel. The amazing story of the Jap double-cross from the naval conference in 1921-22 to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the present war in the Pacific.
Stars: Graham McNamee, Kai-Shek Chiang, Adolf Hitler, Saburo Kurusu
Votes: 6
32. Son of a General III (1991)
110 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The final chapter of the General's Son trilogy tells the story of Kim Du-han, (Sang-min Park) a gangster turned politician during the Japanese occupation of Korea.
Director: Im Kwon-taek | Stars: Park Sang-min, Oh Yeon-su, Il-jae Lee, Shin Hyeon-jun
Votes: 90
33. Kizu (les fantômes de l'unité 731) (2004)
52 min | Documentary
From 1931 to 1945, this secret unit established in Manchuria and financed by the Japanese occupation armies, produced and tested biological weapons on human guinea pigs. Now, former employees of Unit 731 have decided to break the silence.
Director: Serge Viallet
Votes: 32
34. Prikaz: pereyti granitsu (1983)
90 min | War
Director: Yuri Ivanchuk | Stars: Vladlen Biryukov, Natalya Egorova, Viktor Neznanov, Ernst Romanov
Votes: 56
35. Battle for Korea (2001 TV Movie)
110 min | Documentary, History, War
A detailed military history of the Korean War and preceding events, from 1945 to 1953.
Star: Gavin MacFadyen
Votes: 24
36. Manchu Love (1929)
20 min | Short, Drama
Good and evil battle it out in China's Imperial Court to see who will control the Emperorship.
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Sôjin Kamiyama, Tetsu Komai, Etta Lee, Al Chang
37. Ishimitsu Makiyo no shogai (1998 TV Movie)
300 min | Drama
Director: Yoshiko Hoshida | Stars: Tôru Nakamura, Shinobu Nakayama, Yûki Amami, Miki Sakai
38. The Execution (Beheading) of One of the Hunchuses (Chinese Bandits) Outside the Walls of Mukden (1904)
Documentary, Short
A Chinese government executioner prepares to behead a captured member of a notorious bandit gang in Mukden, China.
39.
Dogfights (2005– )
Episode:
The Greatest Air Battles
(2005)
Documentary, History, War
From World War One to Vietnam this program traces the evolution of the tactics and weapons used in aerial combat with archival footage, computer simulations and explanations by the pilots themselves.
Director: Robert Kirk | Star: Phil Crowley
Votes: 22
40.
The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode:
Banzai! Japan 1931-1942
(1973)
TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War
The rise of the Japanese Empire, the Sino-Japanese War, the Soviet-Japanese border conflicts, Pearl Harbor, and the early Japanese successes in the Battle of Malaya and Battle of Singapore.
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Tomohiko Ushiba, Kôichi Kido, Lewis Bush
Votes: 462
41.
The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode:
Pacific: February 1942-July 1945
(1974)
TV-PG | 50 min | Documentary, History, War
The island hopping strategy of Admiral Nimitz and General MacArthur leads from one costly, battle after another. The Japanese fight fanatically as the war gets ever closer to home, but Americans finally use their newest weapon, the A-bomb.
Director: John Pett | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Roy Voris, Frank Manson, Douglas MacArthur
Votes: 354
42.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
Manchuria: The Forgotten Victory
(2000)
Documentary, History, War
Tim Pigott-Smith narrates the story of the Soviet victory over the mighty Japanese Kwangtung Army in the mountains of Manchuria, which is one of the least known of the Second World War.
Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Aleksei Antonov, Henry H. Arnold, Kai-Shek Chiang
Votes: 5
43.
Wild China (2008)
Episode:
Beyond the Great Wall
(2008)
TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary
China's heartland with its Han people is the centre of a 5,000-year-old civilization. This land contains the Great Wall, the Temple of Heaven, and Beijing's Olympic Stadium, and it's home ... See full summary »
Director: George Chan | Star: Bernard Hill
Votes: 105
44.
Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode:
Episode dated 26 October 1951
(1951)
News, Talk-Show
Huie and Henry Steeger, the editor of Argosy magazine, interview U.S. Senator Harry P. Cain, a Republican representing the state of Washington. Topics include the Chinese Air Force and ... See full summary »
Director: Ted Estabrook | Stars: Harry P. Cain, William Bradford Huie, Frank Knight, Henry Steeger
45.
Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode:
Episode dated 16 February 1953
(1953)
News, Talk-Show
Huie and Burt interview Norman Thomas, six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America. topics include criticism of the Eisenhower administration's foreign policy ... See full summary »
Stars: Hardy Burt, William Bradford Huie, Norman Thomas
46.
Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode:
Episode dated 8 May 1953
(1953)
News, Talk-Show
Huie and Peterson interview U.S. Congressman James E. Van Zandt, a Republican from Pennsylvania. Topics include criticism of America's involvement in the Korean War, the use of atomic ... See full summary »
Stars: William Bradford Huie, William H. Peterson, James E. Van Zandt
47.
Mark Felton Productions (2017– )
Episode:
The Flying Tigers - America's Private Air Force
(2021)
11 min | Documentary, History
Star: Mark Felton
48.
1945-1953: From World War to Cold War (2018)
Episode:
Yalta, the Twilight of the Big Three
56 min | Documentary, History, War
Hear how the Yalta Conference of 1945 - in which Franklin D Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin met to discuss Europe's post-war reorganization - led to enmity.
Director: Emilie Lançon | Stars: Curtis Roosevelt, Robert Franck, François Kersaudy, André Kaspi
49.
1945-1953: From World War to Cold War (2018)
Episode:
The Dawn of the Cold War
56 min | Documentary, History, War
For the past four years, the top scientists on the planet had been perfecting what was to become the absolute weapon: the atomic bomb.
Director: Emilie Lançon | Stars: François Kersaudy, Clifton Truman Daniel, Curtis Roosevelt, Yuri Borko
50.
The Armchair Historian (2017– )
Episode:
How the Soviets Blitzed Japan in WW2
(2022)
21 min | Documentary, Animation
The Armchair Historian describes the incredibly successful attacks of the Russian army on the remnants of the Imperial Japanese forces in Manchuria during the waning days of World War II.
Director: Griffin Johnsen | Star: Griffin Johnsen