6 Films & TV Shows Set In Nagasaki Prefecture During The 20th Century
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The Lion Standing in the Wind
🇰🇪 Kenya Nagasaki Prefecture Miyagi Prefecture The 1970s The 1980s The 2010sKoichiro Shimada is sent to a research facility in Kenya, Africa by a teaching hospital in Japan. He encounters a desperate situation and decides to work there as a doctor, treating patients hurt in battles. He struggles with nurses and colleagues at the hospital. Koichiro Shimada then encounters a boy soldier severely wounded mentally. This changes Koichiro Shimada’s fate.
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The Wolverine
Yukon Tokyo Prefecture Nagasaki Prefecture Hiroshima Prefecture The 1940sWhen he's most vulnerable, he's most dangerous. — Wolverine faces his ultimate nemesis - and tests of his physical, emotional, and mortal limits - in a life-changing voyage to modern-day Japan.
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Madame Butterfly
Nagasaki Prefecture The 1900sCio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha, seeks to fulfill her dreams through marriage to an American naval officer. Her faith in their future is shattered by his empty vows and the loss she endures touches something deep within us all.
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Rhapsody in August
Nagasaki Prefecture Hiroshima Prefecture The 1940sTears. Laughter. Innocence. It was a summer of remembering. — The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, who lost her husband in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him before he dies.
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Big Joys, Small Sorrows
Nagasaki Prefecture Hokkaido Prefecture Hiroshima Prefecture The 1980sA lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.
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House on Fire
Tokyo Prefecture Nagasaki Prefecture The 1970s The 1960s The 1950s The 1930sAdapted from autobiographical story by Kazuo Dan, who published it a few months before his death — In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work