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These are films set during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1942-1945) in World War II, including those based on fact and fiction.
Aishite Imasu 1941 (Mahal Kita) [a] is a 2004 Philippine romantic war drama film directed by Joel C. Lamangan from a story co-written with Ricky Lee, who solely made it into a screenplay. Starring Judy Ann Santos , Raymart Santiago , Jay Manalo , and Dennis Trillo , the film is a story of love, betrayal, and honour in wartime, set in the ...
Crosspoint (Japanese: クロスポイント, Hepburn: Kurosupointo) is a 2024 Philippine-Japanese action thriller film written and directed by Donie Ordiales, with the screenplay written by Adam Luff and Tommy Shoes Morrison. [1]
Markova: Comfort Gay is a 2000 Filipino biographical coming-of-age drama film based loosely on the life of Walter Dempster Jr., the last surviving Filipino "comfort gay" (male sex slaves for Imperial Japanese Army) from World War II.
The Great Raid is a 2005 internationally co-produced war film about the Raid at Cabanatuan on the island of Luzon, Philippines during World War II.Directed by John Dahl, the film stars Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Connie Nielsen, Marton Csokas, Joseph Fiennes with Motoki Kobayashi and Cesar Montano.
The noted Japanese film critic Tadao Sato points out that Funakoshi does not play his role in Fires on the Plain in the usual style of post-World War II anti-war Japanese films. He does not put on the pained facial expression and the strained walk typical of the genre, but instead staggers confused through the film more like a drunk man.
Although the Philippines never became a center for feature film production under the Japanese, it was a strategically important market for Japan. First, unlike Manchuria, where the Japanese literally had to construct a film industry, the Philippines already had many large, well-equipped motion picture theaters that were well-stocked with ...
Japanese occupation of the Philippines films (21 P) S. Second Sino-Japanese War films (1 C, 119 P) Pages in category "Pacific War films" The following 200 pages are ...