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The true story of how baseball catcher Moe Berg joined the O.S.S. after Pearl Harbor & was sent to Zurich where German physicist Werner Heisenberg was lecturing to kill him if he determined he was working on an atom bomb.
When a corrupt Japanese mayor exiles all dogs to Trash Island, a 12-year-old boy searches for his pet with the help of a pack of exiles.
Stories of 5 Hollywood directors who volunteered to film WW 2 & how the war changed them & their films changed the world, told by 5 contemporary directors.
After success of his 1st novel, a man is a failure 15 years later as writer, husband & father, now tries to reunite with his ex-wife & son during a storm.
In this animated film set in 1814 Edo (Tokyo) the great artist Hokusai’s assertive daughter also is an artist, who might have created some attributed to him.
In ancient Japan a boy plays music as he brings origami papers to life. He must set out on a quest for his deceased father’s sword & armor for protection against his evil aunts & grandfather.
In August a Nagasaki grandmother informs her grandchildren about the A-bomb that killed her husband &, resentful that it was Americans who dropped the bomb, is uncertain about her mixed blood nephew visiting from Hawaii.
In Japan Anna, sent to relatives on the coast because of her asthma, is so shy that she feels like an outsider. She befriends Marnie who might not be real, but the change that Marnie brings to her is very real.
Angelina Jolie’s film, based on “a true story,” is truly inspiring. Click the title of the film to read my entire review.
This bio of Japanese aviationist Jiro Horikoshi, beginning with his boyhood dreams of flying, tells parallel stories of his development of the Japanese Zero & his love for his TB-infected wife.