The best Tōru Abe’s war movies

Tōru Abe

Tōru Abe

28/03/1917- 18/07/1993
Today we present the best Tōru Abe’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Tōru Abe’s movies.

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
8.5/10
During the Second World War, Japanese conscientious objector Kaji works as a supervisor in a Manchurian prison camp. He hopes to avoid duty as a soldier, but he also hopes to be helpful to the welfare of his prisoners. But an unexpected incident bring problems to Kaji's goals. He faces the possibility of transferral to combat--or worse.

The Imperial Navy

The Imperial Navy
6.9/10
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.

The River Fuefuki

The River Fuefuki
7.1/10
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.

Admiral Yamamoto

Admiral Yamamoto
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 14/08/1968
  • Character: Chief of Staff Soka
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet. With Japan headed inexorably toward war, Yamamoto, despite his misgivings, believes the only possible victory lies in destroying the American fleet by surprise at Pearl Harbor. The attack succeeds, but fails to sink the American carrier fleet. Thus Yamamoto must lead the Japanese navy into war with ever-diminishing likelihood of success.

Hoodlum Soldier

Hoodlum Soldier
7.3/10
A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an effort to desert by stealing a train.

Jubilation Street

Jubilation Street
6.2/10
The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

Sinking the Unsinkable

Sinking the Unsinkable
  • Genre: War
  • Release: 23/03/1944
Japanese Warmovie

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