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NTV in Japan produced a live-action TV drama of Grave of the Fireflies, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the end of the war. The drama aired on 1 November 2005. Like the anime, the live-action version of Grave of the Fireflies focuses on two siblings struggling to survive the final months of the war in Kobe, Japan. Unlike the ...
Konpeki no Kantai (紺碧の艦隊, literally "Deep Blue Fleet") is a Japanese alternate history series produced by J.C.Staff.The series focuses on both a technologically-advanced Imperial Japanese Navy and a radically-different World War II that were brought about by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's revival by unexplained circumstances.
The Cockpit (ザ・コクピット, Za Kokupitto) is a Japanese original video animation series, based on Leiji Matsumoto's World War II manga Battlefield.The OVA series is written and directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Takashi Imanishi and Ryousuke Takahashi.
In This Corner of the World (この世界の片隅に, Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni) is a 2016 Japanese animated wartime drama film produced by MAPPA, co-written and directed by Sunao Katabuchi, [3] [4] featuring character designs by Hidenori Matsubara and music by Kotringo. [5]
Momotaro: Sacred Sailors (桃太郎 海の神兵, Momotarō: Umi no Shinpei) [2] is the first Japanese feature-length animated film. [3] It was directed by Mitsuyo Seo, who was ordered to make a propaganda film for World War II by the Japanese Naval Ministry. Shochiku Moving Picture Laboratory shot the 74-minute film in 1944 and screened it on ...
JDS Mirai (DDH-182) [1] is a fictional helicopter defense destroyer of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), created for the Japanese manga and anime series Zipang.The central point of the plot of the anime is that the modern warship Mirai is transported back sixty years through time to 1942 on the eve of the Battle of Midway.
The Cockpit, a similar 1993 anime OVA focusing on World War II Axis allegiances, also featuring an emphasis on the warplanes. Grave of the Fireflies, another Ghibli anime film from 1988 covering the Japanese perspective on World War II and its effects on civilians.
Message to Adolf (Japanese: アドルフに告ぐ, Hepburn: Adorufu ni Tsugu), known in earlier English translations as Adolf, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka. Set before, during, and after World War II , the story is centered on three men who share the name Adolf.