Set in a bustling alleyway during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai in the 1940s, the film centres on a wife, Zhan Zhou, who was being charged with the bloody dismemberment of her husband – a killing that seems impossible for her to have committed alone. The murder thrusts Zhan into the spotlight and the court of public opinion, forcing her towards a fate intertwined with that of her own country.
During World War II, Chinese guerrillas fight against the occupying Japanese forces. A young woman is the secret leader of the villagers, who plot to rescue two downed Flying Tigers pilots who are currently in the custody of the Japanese. The rescue mission takes on even more importance with the arrival of a Japanese general, which signals a major offensive taking place in the area.
A young Japanese actress remembers her war childhood in Korea. Her father goes to fight, her baby sister Miko dies of typhoid, her beloved Korean maid Ohana is fired due to a mistake which could cost Chiko her life... By and by Chiko realizes that the country is being ruled by the Japanese and the Koreans are persecuted. When the war ends, the Koreans chase the Japanese rule and the roles change. Now Chiko's family is unwanted. But then the Russians come and this is the end. They have to burn all the pictures to avoid all suspicions... even Miko's picture. But when the Russians come to their house, they decide to flee over the 38th Parallel towards freedom. A group of men, women, children struggles along the mountains, led by the light of the Northern Star. Along the way they meet a Korean man, who is willing to help them to escape the Russian soldiers although his family was killed by the Japanese.
A young Filipina is taken from her village to a Japanese military camp to serve as a sex slave during WWII. She endures abuse but finds solace in a friendship with a Japanese soldier.
Tief im Dschungel der Philippinen haben drei japanische Offiziere Gold versteckt, welches sie im 2. Weltkrieg geraubt hatten. 36 Jahre später ermordet Rex Larson die Offiziere, um so an eine Karte zu gelangen, in der das Versteck eingezeichnet ist. Mit dem Geld eines Millionärs wird eine Expedition ausgerüstet, um das Gold zu bergen. Doch es stellt sich heraus, daß einer der Gruppe die anderen eiskalt umlegt, um das Gold für sich alleine zu haben...
Two Korean conscripts undergo Imperial Japanese Army training, much to the pleasure of their families.
Als die Japaner die britische Kolonie Malaysia einnehmen wird die englische Sekretärin Jean Paget zusammen mit weiteren Frauen gefangen genommen. Unter der harten Führung des Generals Sugaya beginnt für sie ein Gewaltmarsch durch die tropische Hölle...
In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to freedom.
Während der letzten Tage der Ming Dynastie war die Küste Chinas in der Gewalt plündernder japanischer Piraten. Der Film erzählt die Geschichte einiger tapferer Bürger, die sich gegen den Strom der Zeit stemmten und ihre Heimat verteidigen. Die standfesten Bewohner von Lee weigern sich den Piraten ein Lösegeld zu zahlen und rotten sich unter der Leitung des berühmten Shaolin Kämpfers Hsiao Feng zum Kampf gegen die japanischen Angreifer zusammen.
Drei kehrten Heim ist die wahre Geschichte der amerikanischen Autorin Agnes Newton Keith, die im Zweiten Weltkrieg in japanische Gefangenschaft geriet, nachdem ihre Heimatinsel im Pazifik erobert wurde.
A small village is taken over by the nasty Japanese, who kill the town's top kung fu fighter in order to scare the populace into submission. Escaping the wrath of the Japanese, the son of the master flees into the hills, where he trains with a group of rebels led by Gam Kei-Chu. Fast-forward ten years, and Chuen returns to the village armed with his father's secret technique of the Thunderbolt Fist with the hopes of killing the leader of the Japanese.
This film is set during the Japanese occupation of China circa WWII. In it, the Japanese occupiers (and the Chinese Quislings who work for them) are portrayed as total monsters who kill children and rape all women. The heroes are resistance fighters who oppose the occupation.
Februar 1945, Höhepunkt der Kämpfe im Pazifik. Manila, Hauptstadt der Philippinen, wird von den Japanern besetzt gehalten. Es ist an der amerikanischen Armee, die hilflosen Einwohner der Stadt sowie 2000 Kriegsgefangene zu befreien...
Oro, Plata, Mata follows two aristocratic families in Negros during World War II. It is structured in three parts: Oro a life of luxury and comfort in the city, Plata a still-luxurious time of refuge in a provincial hacienda, and finally Mata a toilsome retreat deeper into the mountains.
Spy films had always been popular in Chinese-language cinema, with stories set mostly in WWII or the warlord era. The Tender Trap of Espionage, made two years before Dr. No (1962) which kickstarted the Bond film craze, is a story of intrigue between spies and counterspies within the Japanese Occupation force. The film was shot in Taiwan, offering unique visages, with cat-and-mouse mind games set in motion against trust, betrayal and seduction. Based on the British film The Two-Headed Spy (1958), future action maestro Chang Cheh wrote the script while husband-and-wife team Lo Wei and Lau Leung-wah star together as agents, with Lo doubling as director.
Patriotic university student Youngwoo and his friends, led by their teacher Lee Sung, along with a British friend bid farewell to their families and become freedom fighters in Manchuria fighting against the Japanese occupation around the Tumen River.
As the daughter of the Chinese police chief, Angela secretly dresses up as a man to use her kung fu on Japanese troublemakers.
Taiwanese language film. Qiren and Bilian are a couple who are bullies by the Japanese during the occupation. Qiren wounds one officer and is sent to the labor service team to serve in prison. Will they eventually see each other again after the Japanese are defeated?
Mutsuko has been living on an island to which her grandmother and mother have restricted her from leaving. To Mutsuko, the symbol of her freedom was Dreamland, an amusement park on the mainland, but she learns it will be closing permanently this year. Meanwhile, Wataru returns to the island after nine years due to a job transfer. A pupil of his deceased father pays him a visit and tells him about a side of his father he did not know about.