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War

The Kinmen Bombs

The Kinmen Bombs

October 9, 1986

After a devastating artillery attack on the island of Kinmen, commander Chi Liang-chen and his battery prepare a counter-attack.

Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast

Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast

October 4, 1986

During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland Sea town. He vies with the school’s reigning bully, who takes a romantic interest in his older stepsister. When they learn she’s going to be sold to a brothel to pay off her father’s debts, they form an uneasy alliance to free her.

女兵圆舞曲

女兵圆舞曲

October 1, 1986

831, voyage incertain

831, voyage incertain

October 1, 1986

This is the adventure of two men, John and his sergeant Karl, through a hostile and generous forest. It is also the evolution of their relations, of their respective choices in front of the events which face them.

Day of Rulers

Day of Rulers

September 22, 1986

The protagonist in this picture is legendary Bulgarian Khan Krum - a ruler in the beginning of IX century. In this period, Bulgaria ranked third in Europe in terms of territory and military power. It is Khan Krum who contributed to the union of Bulgarians and Slavs. He enforces unseen to that day laws against calumniators, thieves, violators. It stirs discontent among his closest men. The ruler is smart and just, but isn't he too severe? At what cost can one ensure order and progress in a state?

The Deserters

The Deserters

September 22, 1986

Set in military barracks in a small town during World War I. The soldiers herded in the barracks are 'politically suspect' mix of characters from all over of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Czechs, Jews, and even Italians, but officers in charge are Germans. A new lieutenant arrives with the mission to bring order to the unit. He is the sadist, enjoying humiliating the men. Fed up with his behaviour the lower ranks kidnap him one night and string him up in a public toilet. They also make sure that he fouls up during the inspection. Eventually the five ring leaders are imprisoned. They escape and end up in Budapest posing as guards as guards of veterinary surgeons. They are caught and sent back to face a court martial and their old tormentor.

Blue Comet SPT Layzner: Act-II Le Cain 1999

Blue Comet SPT Layzner: Act-II Le Cain 1999

September 21, 1986

OVA that recaps the second part (episodes 26-37) of the Layzner TV series.

The Last Days of Patton

The Last Days of Patton

December 15, 1986

Gen. George S. Patton now works a desk job for the U.S. military after World War II. In the midst of dealing with the difficulty of adapting to his dramatic change of lifestyle, Patton is involved in an auto wreck that leaves him in critical condition. While his body fails him, Patton introspectively reminisces about his relationship with his spouse, Beatrice; his childhood; and his days on the WWI battlefields.

Soldyer!

Soldyer!

August 27, 1986

Filipinos goes to war!

Romance of the Three Kingdoms II: Tensho's Heroes

Romance of the Three Kingdoms II: Tensho's Heroes

August 22, 1986

The sequel to 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms' (1985)

Blue Comet SPT Layzner: Act-I Eiji 1996

Blue Comet SPT Layzner: Act-I Eiji 1996

August 21, 1986

OVA that recaps the first part (episodes 01-24) of the Layzner TV series.

By the Call of the Heart

By the Call of the Heart

August 4, 1986

The heroes got married shortly before the start of the war. In the summer of 1941, Grigory went to the front, was wounded and evacuated along with the hospital. Attempts to find her husband were unsuccessful. Tamara went to the front line as a medical instructor, then graduated from the artillery school and became a platoon commander. And later I found out that Grigory was picked up by villagers and, having changed his oath, he remained waiting for the arrival of the Soviet Army. Realizing his mistake, Grigory realized that only with blood he could atone for his guilt - and reached the front line, no longer afraid of death. Soon Tamara received a notification of his death. After the war, she remarried and was happy, like many in the post-war years. And only the unexpected return of Gregory for a while made her doubt the legitimacy of this happiness.

War is Raging Somewhere

War is Raging Somewhere

August 2, 1986

The seventeen-year-old Mitya Nenashkin, whom the war found far behind the lines in Siberia, had to endure and see a lot of difficult and tragic things. But the overwhelming majority of Mitya met kind, courageous people who were ready to help others and share their last. In this environment, the character of a smart, brave guy who volunteered for the front was formed.

Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth

Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth

July 26, 1986

In the winter of 1945, Sakura the elephant gave birth to a baby elephant at Tokyo Fujimi Zoo under the watchful eye of the zookeeper Shota Tanabe. Around the same time, Shota's wife, Setsuko, also gave birth to a son. Hanako, the baby elephant, grows up while deepening her bonds with elementary school students who love zoos. However, as Japan enters the Pacific War, the military orders the animals in the zoos of five major cities to be killed.

Volunteers

Volunteers

July 20, 1986

In this amusing antiwar comedy, seven inept and reluctant soldiers land on a desert island to carry on with the fighting. Just after their parachutes have collapsed behind them on the beach, helicopters approach and land nearby. Out pops a bevy of beautiful women sent to entertain the troops, which they do, and then they leave. From that point onward, there are a series of misadventures

Dragon Rapide

Dragon Rapide

July 10, 1986

The two weeks leading up to the Spanish Civil War in 1936 are dramatized from many different locations in Spain, Morocco and London.

Sarraounia

Sarraounia

July 1, 1986

On 2 January 1899, starting from the French Sudan, a French column under the command of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is sent against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the Cameroon. Those captains and their African mercenary troops destroy and kill everything they find on their path. The French authorities try to stop them sending orders and a second troop but the captains kill the emissaries who reach them. Sarraounia, queen of the Aznas, have heard about the exactions. Clever in war tactics and in witchcraft, she decides to resist and stop those mad men.

Area 88 Act III: Burning Mirage

Area 88 Act III: Burning Mirage

June 15, 1986

Shin Kazama, tricked and forced into flying for the remote country of Aslan, can only escape the hell of war by earning money for shooting down enemy planes or die trying. Through the course of the series, Shin must deal with the consequences of killing and friends dying around him as tries to keep his mind on freeing himself from this nightmare.

Barefoot Gen 2

Barefoot Gen 2

June 14, 1986

Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.

Poor Butterfly

Poor Butterfly

June 2, 1986

A turbulent era in Argentine politics is highlighted in this well-wrought drama, set in Buenos Aires at the end of 1945, about Clara (Graciela Borges), a young, half-Jewish woman awakening to the reasons behind the political conflicts of her time and place. Clara's father was a Communist who fought the Nazis in Argentina and possessed a list of the top Nazi exiles and their contacts. Through a former lover, Clara -- a successful broadcast journalist -- begins to see her Jewish roots (and the leftists) in a whole new light. Meanwhile, the political storms sweeping through Argentina are setting the stage for the Peronist government to come.