Battle Anthem

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and t...

Runtime

2h 34m

Director

Edward Zwick

Cast

Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Timothy Spall

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil th...

Runtime

2h 41m

Director

David Lean

Cast

William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins

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.

Runtime

2h 21m

Director

Clint Eastwood

Cast

Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon, Lt. Jim Reardon and Maj. Ian Campbell are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. While Campbell wants to rebel and attempt an escape, Gord...

Runtime

1h 48m

Director

David L. Cunningham

Cast

Ciarán McMenamin, Robert Carlyle, Kiefer Sutherland

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Runtime

2h 26m

Director

Rob Marshall

Cast

Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh