I think the title asks it all. There are tons for the western theater (LONGEST DAY, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, PATTON) but there don’t seem to be as many about Japan, the Phillipines, etc…
Are you looking for land battles or sea battles.
Sea Battles
Midway
The Enemy Below
Mr. Roberts
Land Battles
The Thin Red Line (YMMV)
These are right of the top of my head and I’m sure after I hit submit I’ll think of more.
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Father Goose and Operation Pettycoat , well they are both lcomedies but they are good movies and set in the time and place.
It’s not a shoot em up like the ones you mention at all. But, it’s a great movie set in China during WW II.
Oh, and technically Pearl Harbor meets your requirements. Although, of course, it sucked.
Oh, and I second Midway. Excellent flick. Oldie but a goodie. It’s the pacific theatre equal of The Great Escape. If you like it a similar one is Tora, Tora, Tora.
Bridge on the River Kwai, of course.
For an off-beat and superb story about Japanese occupation of the Malay peninsula, please check out, “A Town Like Alice” by Neville Shute. It isn’t really a wartime story in its overall text, but it covers a little known women’s “death march” and the character arc and plot scope are both pretty fantastic. Brian Browne (one of my favorite actors) hands in a fantastic performance. It is also a really good book to read.
The Last Emperor shows smoe of the intrigues between Japan and China during the war.
Tha Sands of Iwo Jima
From Here to Eternity
One more: Bridge on the River Kwai.
Wow. I actually attempted that post before spoke’s. Damn hampsters.
It wasn’t a major success, but I liked Windtalkers.
Hell in the Pacific is pretty good. I guess it’s two movies in one; Marvin speaks in English, and Mifune speaks in Japanese - no subtitles. Not being able to say more than a dozen words in Japanese, I have no idea what the movie would be like if you’re bilingual.
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a great movie, but in terms of historical accuracy, it’s 100% dead wrong.
(this post was hamster kibble a few hours ago, please excuse if it pops in as a duplicate)
Masaki Kobayashi’s "The Human Condition (3 DVD’s)
Kon Ichiwawa’s “Burmese Harp”
The WORST is “The Private Navy of Sgt. O’Farrell,” with Bob Hope trying to save a shipload of beer and not have sex with Phyllis Diller.
Actually The Enemy Below is set during the Battle of the Atlantic, unless there’s another version with that fine Asian actor Curt Jurgens in it 
If you want a Pacific submarine movie, I would suggest Run Silent, Run Deep.
Other movies :
Bataan
Saipan
The Flying Tigers
Guadalcanal Diary
The Fighting Sullivans
The Flying Leathernecks
The Fighting Seabees
BTW, does anybody know if there is a movie about the battle of Kohima/Imphal ?
How about PT-109? A pretty good Sunday afternoon flick overall.
Frankly, there are no good movies that accurately depict conflict in the Pacific theater. Thin Red Line, while some (not me!) may admire it for its cinematics, was horribly inaccurate in its portrayal of the Japanese. Wind Talkers was a bubble gum action flick, not much for plot or accuracy. The older movies were better made but were much more propoganda pieces as well (not that there is anything inherently wrong with propoganda, but it doesn’t make for truthfulness in movies.
I am waiting patiently for someone to make a Saving Private Ryan or Blackhawk Down style movie about the Pacific Theater.
Let me get this straight. You want a Pacific Theater version of Saving Private Ryan or Blackhawk Down, but you don’t want a bubblegum action flick or a propaganda piece. Huh?
Not a battle film so much as an unusual human drama is Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, about British soldiers in a Japanese POW camp. Made by the director of “Realm of the Senses”, it’s notable for being a non-musical in which the two lead roles are played by musicians (David Bowie and Ryuichi Sakamoto). Also stars Kitano “Beat” Takeshi way before he was a big shot.
Zenster, I have been trying to remember the name of the film A Town Like Alice for years! Thanks!
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