Nothing captures the human condition as well as an accurate World War 2 movie. To say that it is rare for a Hollywood movie ...

“Shikata Ga Nai” – a Japanese phrase meaning “It cannot be helped” – is also the title of a powerful, feature-length ...

In a history spanning more than 100 years, Japanese cinema has produced some of the most admired films that continue to enrich the world cinema discourse. Masterpieces by such greats as Akira Kurosawa ...

The film The Boy and the Heron ... The movie features the surreal adventure of a Japanese boy during World War II as he is torn between the sorrow of losing his mother in an air strike on Tokyo ...

This is an excerpt of the paper delivered during the Inaugural Gawad Urian Lecture at Lyceum of the Philippines, Intramuros, March 2025 IT is the 1970s. The films about World War II have become rarer.