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Farewell My Concubine (1993)

Summary: Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.

Release Date: October 15, 1993

Genres: Drama, Romance, Music

Director: Kaige Chen

Writers: Pik-Wah Lee

, Wei Lu

Runtime: 2 h 51 min

MPAA: R

Production: Beijing Film Studio, Tomson Films, China Film Co-Production Corporation

Countries: China, Hong Kong

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,549,086

International: $ 1,897,998

8.8 - Douban
110066 votes

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)

Summary: During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.

Release Date: September 02, 1983

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Nagisa Ôshima

Writers: Lourens van der Post

, Nagisa Ôshima

, Paul Mayersberg

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: R

Production: National Film Trustee Company, Antares-Nova, Recorded Picture Company (RPC), Broadbank Investments

Distributor: Universal Pictures, Artisan Entertainment, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video

Countries: United Kingdom, New Zealand, Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 2,306,560

International: $ 46,780

8.7 - Douban
52283 votes

Dreams (1990)

Summary: A collection of tales based upon eight of director Akira Kurosawa's recurring dreams.

Release Date: August 24, 1990

Genres: Drama, Fantasy

Directors: Akira Kurosawa

, Ishirô Honda

Writers: Akira Kurosawa

, Ishirô Honda

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Akira Kurosawa USA

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Countries: Japan, United States

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,963,207

International: $ 1,006,954

8.4 - Douban
23696 votes

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Summary: British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.

Release Date: December 14, 1957

Genres: Adventure, Drama, War

Director: David Lean

Writers: Pierre Boulle

, Carl Foreman

, Michael Wilson

Runtime: 2 h 41 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Horizon Pictures (II)

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, RCA (II), RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Domestic: $ 27,200,000

International: $ 530

8.3 - Douban
16370 votes

Nanking (2007)

Summary: Through readings of historical account by actors and the testimony of survivors, the events of the Nanjing Massacre are recounted.

Release Date: July 03, 2007

Genres: Biography, History, War

Directors: Bill Guttentag

, Dan Sturman

Writers: Bill Guttentag

, Dan Sturman

, Elisabeth Bentley

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: R

Production: HBO Documentary Films, Purple Mountain Productions, HBO Documentary

Distributor: THINKFilm

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 161,182

International: $ 1,405,066

8.2 - Douban
63726 votes

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

Summary: The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

Release Date: February 02, 2007

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Clint Eastwood

Writers: Iris Yamashita

, Paul Haggis

, Tadamichi Kuribayashi

Runtime: 2 h 21 min

MPAA: R

Production: Dreamworks Pictures, Warner Bros., Malpaso Productions, Amblin Entertainment

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 19,000,000

Domestic: $ 13,756,082

International: $ 54,917,146

8 - Douban
250854 votes

Pearl Harbor (2001)

Summary: A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941.

Release Date: May 25, 2001

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Director: Michael Bay

Writer: Randall Wallace

Runtime: 3 h 03 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Touchstone Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films

Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Buena Vista Home Video, Touchstone Home Video, Walt Disney Home Video, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), HBO Max, Touchstone Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 140,000,000

Domestic: $ 198,542,554

International: $ 250,678,391

8 - Douban
199 votes

King Rat (1965)

Summary: Fast-talking wheeler-dealer Corporal King is stuck in a Malaysian P.O.W. camp during World War II and uses bribery and larceny to take de-facto control of the camp.

Release Date: October 27, 1965

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Bryan Forbes

Writers: James Clavell

, Bryan Forbes

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Coleytown

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Columbia Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

7.8 - Douban
49892 votes

Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

Summary: The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II.

Release Date: October 20, 2006

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Clint Eastwood

Writers: William Broyles Jr.

, Paul Haggis

, James Bradley

Runtime: 2 h 15 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Dreamworks Pictures, Warner Bros., Amblin Entertainment, Malpaso Productions

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, HBO Max, Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount+

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 90,000,000

Domestic: $ 33,602,376

International: $ 32,297,873

7.8 - Douban
30768 votes

The Thin Red Line (1998)

Summary: Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.

Release Date: January 15, 1999

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Terrence Malick

Writers: James Jones

, Terrence Malick

Runtime: 2 h 50 min

MPAA: R

Production: Fox 2000 Pictures, Geisler-Roberdeau, Phoenix Pictures

Distributor: The Criterion Collection, Tubi TV

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 52,000,000

Domestic: $ 36,400,491

International: $ 61,726,074

7.7 - Douban
79185 votes

Windtalkers (2002)

Summary: Two U.S. Marines in World War II are assigned to protect the Navajo Marines who use their native language as an unbreakable radio cipher.

Release Date: June 14, 2002

Genres: Action, Drama, War

Director: John Woo

Writers: John Rice

, Joe Batteer

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

MPAA: R

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Lion Rock Productions

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, MVD Entertainment Group, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 115,000,000

Domestic: $ 40,914,068

International: $ 36,714,197

7.7 - Douban
23024 votes

Empire of the Sun (1987)

Summary: A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.

Release Date: December 25, 1987

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Tom Stoppard

, J.G. Ballard

, Menno Meyjes

Runtime: 2 h 33 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Amblin Entertainment, Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000

Domestic: $ 22,238,696

International: $ 425

7.7 - Douban
5534 votes

Godzilla (1954)

Summary: After a dinosaur-like beast - awoken from undersea hibernation by atom bomb testing - ravages Tokyo, a scientist must decide if his similarly dangerous weapon should be used to destroy it.

Release Date: May 07, 2004

Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Ishirô Honda

Writers: Takeo Murata

, Ishirô Honda

, Shigeru Kayama

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Film (Eiga) Co. Ltd., Walt Disney Productions

Distributor: Vestron Video, Zontarian Video, Rialto Pictures, Classic Media, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Sony Wonder, Janus Films, Genius Entertainment, Genius Products, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Franchise: Godzilla

Movie budget: $ 175,000

Domestic: $ 562,711

International: $ 26,222

7.7 - Douban
3346 votes

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)

Summary: A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.

Release Date: September 20, 1985

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Paul Schrader

Writers: Paul Schrader

, Leonard Schrader

, Chieko Schrader

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: Zoetrope Studios, Filmlink International, Lucasfilm, M Company, Toho Film (Eiga) Co. Ltd., Tristone Entertainment Inc.

Distributor: Warner Bros., The Criterion Collection

Countries: United States, Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 437,547

International: $ 132,449

7.7 - Douban
375 votes

Level Five (1997)

Summary: The French computer programmer Laura inherits the task of making a computer game of the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. She searches the internet for information on the battle, and interviews Japanese experts and witnesses....

Release Date: February 19, 1997

Genres: Romance, Documentary, War

Director: Chris Marker

Writer: Chris Marker

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Les Films de l'Astrophore, Argos Films, Canal+, Cofimage, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Karedas, Groupement National des Cinémas de Recherche (GNCR), Argos Films

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 27,000

7.5 - Douban
775404 votes

The Eight Hundred (2020)

Summary: In 1937, 800 Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.

Release Date: August 28, 2020

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Director: Guan Hu

Writers: Guan Hu

, Rui Ge

, Kun Hu

Runtime: 2 h 29 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Beijing Diqi Yinxiang Entertainment, Huayi Brothers Media, The Seventh Art Pictures, Tencent Pictures

Distributor: CMC Pictures, Look Film

Country: China

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 80,000,000

Domestic: $ 372,755

International: $ 461,048,804

7.5 - Douban
170574 votes

City of Life and Death (2009)

Summary: In 1937, Japan occupied Nanjing, the Chinese capital. There was a battle and subsequent atrocities against the inhabitants, especially those who took refuge in the International Security Zone.

Release Date: April 22, 2009

Genres: Drama, History, War

Director: Chuan Lu