10 Best Movies Like Japan's Longest Day
If you loved Japan's Longest Day, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
Emperor
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Japan's Longest Day for fans of Drama & History & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find...
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Japan's Longest Day for fans of Drama & History & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Kaji, sent to the Japanese army labeled Red, witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against a fellow recruit. He also sees his friend Shinjô defe...
Sekigahara
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Japan's Longest Day for fans of Drama & History & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mi...
Empire of the Sun
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Japan's Longest Day for fans of Drama & History & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who lo...
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Japan's Longest Day for fans of Drama & History & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up ...
Letters from Iwo Jima
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Japan's Longest Day for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it....