A group of Marines recall their horrifying memories of fighting on the Pacific front of World War II, while a journalist attempts to glorify their experiences for his readers.

In World War II Japan, a married couple cares for an enemy combatant who has washed upon their village's shore—despite disapproval from their community.

Following the aftermath of World War II, a Japanese soldier shows up at the house of one of his former battalion mate, a mother must grapple with whether to hold onto her son’s memory or let him go.

A teenager in America during World War II grapples with his personal, hostile feelings toward the Japanese farmer who moves next door.

At the beginning of American occupation in Japan following World War II, an American soldier attempts to befriend a Japanese shopkeeper but finds that he can't seem to say the right thing.

When quiet academic Mr. Palmer involves himself with a group of mothers waiting daily for news from husbands and lovers fighting in Japan, he realizes his Grecian impression of the solemn waiting women is far from the reality of their bristling enmity.

A poor but noble-blooded Chinese man seeks glory by inadvertently joining the English war effort in WWI. He works as a trench-digger, but his ambition leads him to take up arms during a battle, inspiring his fellow trench-diggers to fight with him.

When a World War II soldier returns home to San Francisco, memories of a late friend keep him from enjoying the normalcy of civilian life.

Two American soldiers lost in a Japanese jungle must slowly come to accept their mortality.

A boy growing up during Japan’s postwar economic ascendancy comes to grips with the sudden death of his mother and the eventual passing of his blind, aging father.