Direction: Seiji Arihara

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Seiji Arihara. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Who's Left Behind?

1991 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Seiji Arihara

Plot Kayoko is a young girl in 1940, just starting first grade. She's a bit of a crybaby, which is no secret to those around her. She loves playing with friends...

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Wonder Beat Scramble (TV Series)

1986 · Series · 22 min. · Japan

Direction Satoshi Dezaki · Seiji Arihara

Plot TV Series (1986). 26 Episodes. Aliens from the planet Vijure are on a quest for a key to the secret of life and toward this end infiltrate human bodies. Such...

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Nagasaki 1945: The Angelus Bells

2005 · Movie · 80 min. · Japan

Direction Seiji Arihara

Plot August 1945. In a converted theological seminary on the outskirts of Nagasaki, a young doctor works to help his patients, as unsettling news comes of a new weapon used by...

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Song of Raiyantsuri

1994 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Seiji Arihara

Plot An indentured Chinese laborer, brought to Japan to work in a coal mine during WWII, manages to escape his captors. He hides out in the Japanese countryside, so far from...

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The War of the Girl

2002 · Movie · 80 min. · Japan

Direction Seiji Arihara

Plot Etsuko lives in Manchuria during World War II. At the end of the conflict, the japanese population in Manchuria is harassed by the chinese population. Etsuko, her family and many...

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Raining Fire (Rain of Fire)

1988 · Movie · 80 min. · Japan

Direction Seiji Arihara

Plot Animated film based on contemporary accounts of the fire-bombing of the city of Fukuoka on the evening of June 19, 1945. (Source: MyAnimeList)

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On a Paper Crane: Tomoko's Adventure

1993 · Movie · 27 min. · Japan

Direction Seiji Arihara

Plot A young girl named Tomoko travels alone to Hiroshima's Atomic Bomb Museum where she meets Sadako, a girl whose life is linked to the events that occurred during and after...

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