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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

96 - Rotten Tomatoes
102 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

96 - Rotten Tomatoes
47 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

94 - Rotten Tomatoes
18 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

93 - Rotten Tomatoes
54 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

Writer: Chuan Lu

Runtime: 2 h 12 min

MPAA: R

Production: China Film Group Corporation (CFGC), Chuan Films, Jiangsu Broadcasting System

Countries: China, Hong Kong

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 122,558

International: $ 10,564,758

91 - Rotten Tomatoes
205 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

89 - Rotten Tomatoes
27 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

87 - Rotten Tomatoes
38 votes

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

86 - Rotten Tomatoes
73 votes

Shin Godzilla (2016)

Summary: Japan is plunged into chaos upon the appearance of a giant monster.

Release Date: July 29, 2016

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Directors: Hideaki Anno

, Shinji Higuchi

Writers: Hideaki Anno

, Ishirô Honda

, Takeo Murata

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Cine Bazar, Khara Corporation, Toho Company

Distributor: Crunchyroll, FUNimation Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Franchise: Godzilla

Domestic: $ 1,918,403

International: $ 76,134,742

86 - Rotten Tomatoes
37 votes

In the Realm of the Senses (1976)

Summary: A fictionalized retelling of the story of Sada Abe, whose affair with her master quickly turned obsessive and sadomasochistic.

Release Date: April 01, 1977

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Nagisa Ôshima

Writers: Kôji Wakamatsu

, Nagisa Ôshima

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: NC-17

Production: Argos Films, Oshima Productions, Shibata Organisation, Argos Films

Distributor: Surrogate, Star Video, Fox Lorber, The Criterion Collection

Countries: Japan, France

Language: Japanese

84 - Rotten Tomatoes
25 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

80 - Rotten Tomatoes
107 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

80 - Rotten Tomatoes
66 votes

The Good the Bad the Weird (2008)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: July 17, 2008

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Director: Kim Jee-woon

Writers: Kim Jee-woon

, Min-suk Kim

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: R

Production: Barunson E&A, CJ E&M Film Financing & Investment Entertainment & Comics, CJ Entertainment, Barunson E&A, CJ E&M Film Financing & Investment Entertainment & Comics, Grimm Pictures, Stone Comics Entertainment

Country: South Korea

Language: Korean

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 128,486

International: $ 44,132,723

78 - Rotten Tomatoes
67 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

76 - Rotten Tomatoes
59 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

75 - Rotten Tomatoes
36 votes

John Rabe (2009)

Summary: A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.

Release Date: April 02, 2009

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Florian Gallenberger

Writers: Florian Gallenberger

, John Rabe

, Erwin Wickert

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

Production: Odeon Fiction, EOS Entertainment, Majestic Filmproduktion, Canal+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF), FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), France 2 Cinéma, Huayi Brothers & Taihe Film Investment, Lunaris Film, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Pampa Production, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Rai Cinema, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)

Distributor: Strand Releasing

Countries: France, China, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Belgium

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 67,519

International: $ 1,417,146

73 - Rotten Tomatoes
198 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

67 - Rotten Tomatoes
9 votes

Flying Tigers (1942)

Summary: Capt. Jim Gordon's command of the famed American volunteer fighter group in China is complicated by the recruitment of an old friend who is a reckless hotshot.

Release Date: October 08, 1942

Genres: Action, Drama, Romance

Director: David Miller

Writers: Kenneth Gamet

, Barry Trivers

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Republic Pictures (I), Polyphony Digital

Distributor: Republic Pictures (I), Hollywood Television Service, NTA Home Entertainment, Republic Pictures Home Video, Olive Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 3,270,000

57 - Rotten Tomatoes
7 votes

55 Days at Peking (1963)

Summary: During the 1900 Boxer Rebellion, U.S. marine, Maj. Matt Lewis, along with British consul, Sir Arthur Robertson, develop a plan to keep the rebels at bay until an international military relief force can arrive.

Release Date: May 06, 1963

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Directors: Nicholas Ray

, Guy Green

, Andrew Marton

Writers: Robert Hamer

, Philip Yordan

, Bernard Gordon

Runtime: 2 h 34 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Samuel Bronston Productions

Distributor: Allied Artists Pictures, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), VCI Home Video, Lightning Video, Best Film & Video Corp., Image Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 9,000,000

55 - Rotten Tomatoes
11 votes

Farewell to the King (1989)

Summary: Borneo, 1942: An American soldier escapes WWII and becomes the king of the headhunters in the jungle. Two British soldiers are parachuted into the area to find local support for the battle against the Japanese.

Release Date: March 03, 1989

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: John Milius

Writers: Pierre Schoendoerffer

, John Milius

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Cine Location Services, David Hannay Productions, Film Plan Financing Number 1, Southeast Asia Film Location Services Sdn. Bhd., The Ruddy Morgan Organization

Distributor: Orion Pictures, Image Entertainment, Orion Home Video, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,420,917

King Rat (1965)

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Nanking (2007)

Level Five (1997)

City of Life and Death (2009)

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

The Eight Hundred (2020)

Farewell My Concubine (1993)

Shin Godzilla (2016)

In the Realm of the Senses (1976)

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)

The Thin Red Line (1998)

The Good the Bad the Weird (2008)

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)

Empire of the Sun (1987)

John Rabe (2009)

Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

Flying Tigers (1942)

55 Days at Peking (1963)

Farewell to the King (1989)

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