Kiku-chan to Ookami - Recommendations

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 2005

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1993

Young Chiko and her family live in Japanese occupied Korea during the height of World War II, an area soon to be reoccupied by the Russians when Japan loses the war. For Chiko and many other Japanese people, this means exile from their homes, and the only way to escape is to head south towards their families and safe haven. Now, with unfriendly faces all around them, Chiko, her family, and a number of others must set off on a journey to find their way to safety through countless hardships, guided by the light of the stars...

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 2003

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1993

One day, Tomoko Sato travels by herself to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum for a class assignment, eager to complete her task. However, after learning the horrifying details of what took place many years ago, Tomoko leaves, finding herself in front of a beautiful statue that turns into a little girl! Named Sadako, the youth quickly becomes best friends with Tomoko, and shares her tragic story...

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 2009

Eiko, an elementary schoolgirl with blue eyes from her American father, transfers to a remote mountainous village in the southern Japanese prefecture of Kochi during World War II, and her classmates make no attempt to rein in their bullying. Only Eiko's homeroom teacher Akiko and a boy named Kenta treat her without disdain or hostility. The children's lives change as the injured father of one of Kenta's classmates returns from the battlefield and news of more casualties arrives in the village.

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 2002

• Movie (1 ep)
• 2014

In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of Shikotan became part of the Sakhalin Oblast... and on this forgotten border in a remote corner of the world, friendship among children from two different countries timidly blossomed, striving to overcome language barriers and the waves of history. Based on true events.

• TV Special (1 ep)
• 2007

Ayaka is a typical twelve-year-old girl who takes her comfortable city life for granted, brushing off her grandmother's tales of World War II. On a day like any other, the girl begrudgingly takes her dog Ryan for a walk when she's forced to flee into a telephone booth to take refuge from a sudden storm – and that's when it happens. Lightning strikes, teleporting her and Ryan sixty years into the past, several days before Tokyo was bombed and 100,000 people lost their lives. Stranded from everyone she knows and the comforts of home, Ayaka must struggle to survive amidst the hardships of war, all the while trying to find a way home.

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1990

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1987