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- DirectorXiaogang FengStarsHanyu ZhangChao DengWenkang YuanA soldier fights to gain recognition for comrades who died during the Chinese Civil War.
- DirectorChuan LuStarsYe LiuWei FanHideo NakaizumiIn 1937, Japan occupied Nanjing, the Chinese capital. There was a battle and subsequent atrocities against the inhabitants, especially those who took refuge in the International Security Zone.
- DirectorDong ShenStarsRay LuiAdy AnWenkang YuanSet in 1943, late in the WWII period in China. A brave KMT army division is stationed in Changde city, a strategic garrison in Northwest Hunan province. They fight the invading Japanese army violently to protect the city.
- DirectorXiaogang FengStarsGuoli ZhangHanyu ZhangWei FanA deadly drought in 1942 takes its toll on central China's Henan province during the war against Japan.
- DirectorYu SunStarsYan JinYanyan ChenLi-li LiSix young men from the city take jobs on a road crew, building a highway of strategic importance to the Chinese Army. The story relates the men's interactions with each other, the local community, and two friendly and flirtatious young local girls who become part of their circle. Meanwhile, their hard work is countered by a traitorous foreman bribed by Japanese agents to sabotage the road.
- DirectorXudong RenStarsLung-Kuang ChuGuodong HanJiang LiuChinese excavated a lot of tunnels in middle Hebei flatlands and fight invaders in these tunnels in the anti-Japanese war.
- DirectorAng LeeStarsTony Leung Chiu-waiTang WeiJoan ChenDuring World War II era, a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee.
- DirectorWen JiangStarsWen JiangKenya SawadaHongbo JiangVillagers in World War II China are unsure what to do with the two enemy prisoners who have been left in their care.
- DirectorShyam BenegalStarsIla ArunPankaj BerryNicolas ChagrinThe film, which is about the last five years of the Indian leader Subhas Chandra's life, also includes his life's story in flashback sequences.
- DirectorJoel LamanganStarsJudy Ann SantosRaymart SantiagoDennis TrilloInya, a heroine of the Philippine resistance against the Japanese during World War II, recalls events involving her husband Edilberto and their childhood friend Ignacio, a transvestite who, masquerading as a woman also named Inya, becomes the lover of the local Japanese commander Ichiru, and is caught between duty to be a spy for his country and friends and his reluctant but growing love for Ichiru.
- DirectorRadha Krishna JagarlamudiStarsVarun TejPragya JaiswalNikitin DheerA rivalry between two men, based on caste and social status, extends from an Indian village to war torn Europe during World War II.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsTyrone PowerMicheline PresleTom EwellAmerican soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back.
- DirectorRon WinstonStarsHugh O'BrianMickey RooneyJames MitchumA Marine unit on a Japanese-held island in the Philippines tries to hook up with local Filipino guerrillas.
- DirectorMonte HellmanStarsJimmie RodgersJack NicholsonJohn HackettDuring World War II, a three man commando team places its trust in the hands of a band of Filipino resistants, as they try to knock out a Japanese communication center.
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsJohn WayneAnthony QuinnBeulah BondiIn 1942, after the fall of the Philippines to the Japanese, U.S. Army Col. Joseph Madden stays behind to organize the local resistance against the Japanese invaders.
- DirectorPeter JonesStarsScott GlennStephen BaxterBrian Bedard
- DirectorIrving LernerStarsVan HeflinRita MorenoJames MacArthurDuring World War II, the spoiled son of a wealthy businessman finds himself involved in the guerrilla movement fighting against the Japanese, and finds romance and adventure.
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsEiji FunakoshiMantarô UshioYoshihiro HamaguchiIn the closing days of WWII, remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain death by starvation.
- DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsShin'ya TsukamotoLily FrankyTatsuya NakamuraA Japanese soldier endures illness, starvation and brutality in the Philippines at the tail end of WW2.
- DirectorLesley SelanderStarsAnn DvorakGene EvansDouglas KennedyDuring World War II, an American woman posing as an Italian cabaret owner spies on the Japanese in Manila but becomes the target of a suspicious Japanese intelligence officer.
- DirectorGil PortesStarsDolphyEric QuizonJeffrey QuizonGil M Portes (Miguel/Michelle, 1999) tells the unconventional true story of Walter Dempster, Jr, otherwise known as Markova. After watching a documentary about the suffering of women forced into prostitution during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, Markova decides to tell his own painful story to reporter Loren Legarda. Escaping the torment of growing up with an abusive older brother, he and his friends found further suffering at the hands of Japanese soldiers, forced into sex work to survive. But even after the war, Markova's struggle continued.
- DirectorPeque GallagaStarsCherie GilSandy AndolongLiza LorenaTwo affluent families struggle and learn to survive during the Japanese occupation in the Philippines.
- DirectorCesar MontanoStarsCesar MontanoJuliana PalermoJacky WooThe story is set in Bohol, Central Visayas during World War II before, during, and immediately after, the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines.
- DirectorMario O'HaraStarsNora AunorChristopher De LeonBembol RocoA woman falls in love with a Japanese soldier during the Japanese Occupation in the Philippines; the whole town turns against her.