Movies and TV shows set in east asia
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in east asia ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, breathtaking, stylized, visually appealing, weird and realistic films and TV shows about / with asian, vengeance, dialogue, storytelling, mentor, runaway, rivalry, violence, brutality and culture clash plots mostly in Drama, Action and Thriller genres shot in Hong Kong, China, South Korea and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as east asia: The Net (2016), Rush Hour 2 (2001), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Hero (2002), House of Flying Daggers (2004), Nobody Knows (2004), Lust, Caution (2007), Parasite (2019), Cold Bloom (2012), Mao Zedong 1949 (2019).
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A poor North Korean fisherman finds himself an accidental defector, and is groomed to be a spy by an ambitious South Korean military officer.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, bleak, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
politics, poverty, human rights, breakdown, prostitute, torture, fisherman, husband wife relationship, corruption, spy, military, capitalism ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
north korea, south korea, east asia, seoul, korea
Is relevant?
258K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It's vacation time for Carter as he finds himself alongside Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the ladies, Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at ...
Style:
entertaining, exciting, funny, action comedy, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
martial arts, buddy cop, kung fu, kick-butt women, partner, buddies, police investigation, good versus evil, culture clash, chase, gang, odd couple ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
hong kong, china, east asia, las vegas, los angeles ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.
Style:
epic, visually stunning, colorful, atmospheric, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
martial arts, sword fight, wuxia, master warrior, sword, kung fu, female martial artist, tough girl, swords and armor, warrior, hand to hand combat, unspoken love ...
Time:
18th century, year 2000, 2000s, 19th century, 17th century ...
Place:
china, beijing china, east asia, asia, tokyo ...
Is relevant?
193K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
One man defeated three assassins who sought to murder the most powerful warlord in pre-unified China.
Style:
visual, philosophical, breathtaking, visually stunning, serious ...
Plot:
martial arts, wuxia, sword fight, swords and armor, master warrior, lovers, desert, female warrior, twists and turns, vengeance, medieval, kung fu ...
Time:
ancient times, medieval times, year 2002, middle ages, 2000s
Place:
china, ancient china, east asia, asia, mongolia ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.
Style:
sexy, breathtaking, visually stunning, epic, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
martial arts, wuxia, sword fight, swords and armor, medieval, tragic love, warrior, fight, kung fu, emperor, tragic event, power of love ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, year 2004, 2000s, 9th century ...
Place:
china, east asia, asia, ancient china, hong kong
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
Style:
touching, depressing, atmospheric, gloomy, bleak ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
poverty, childhood, children, young kid, child abandonment, dysfunctional family, brother brother relationship, innocence lost, responsibility, neglect, jailbait, family relations ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, east asia, asia, california ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Taiwan, USA, Hong Kong, China
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
During World War II a secret agent must seduce, then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.
Style:
sexy, sexual, disturbing, sensual, erotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
forbidden love, world war two, sensuality, sex, sex scene, adultery, lust, sexual attraction, japanese occupation, extramarital affair, sexual relations, passionate sex ...
Time:
1940s, year 2007, 2000s, 1930s, 20th century ...
Place:
asia, hong kong, china, japan, shanghai ...
Is relevant?
1.1M
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Style:
suspense, black comedy, psychological thriller, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
poverty, wealthy family, working class, social satire, class differences, scam, wealth, basement, plot twist, rich snob, driver, unemployment ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019
Place:
south korea, east asia, seoul, asia, india
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Industrial Hitachi City is the location for this post-3.11 drama. Still recovering from the tsunami, Shiori receives news of her husband’s accidental death, which marks the start of a personal recovery that mirrors the town’s for Shiori as well ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, touching, tense, crying
Plot:
fall in love, husband wife relationship, husband and wife, employer employee relationship, asian woman, violence, anger, family relations, japanese wife, sadness, coworker, feeling ...
Place:
east asia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: China
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The film is set in 1949, as the members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China prepare to establish a new Chinese state, the People's Republic of China.
Style:
political, historical drama, period piece, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
revolution, communist party, chinese history, military, military officer, society, historical event, political unrest, politics, republican era china, political intrigue, biopic ...
Time:
1940s, year 1949
Place:
china, east asia, beijing china, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Maki Eda (Haruna Kawaguchi) works for an advertising agency at a large company. She is a single and doesn't have good luck with men. She also isn't very good at cooking and likes eating junk food. One day, she meets Nagisa Katayama (Kento ...
Style:
sexy, light, feel good, contemplative, humorous ...
Plot:
homosexuality, food, single woman, vegetable, friendship, bisexuality, parents daughter relationship, teacher, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, japanese woman, school teacher, japanese teenager ...
Place:
east asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A former agent from the North Korean intelligence and a senior member of the South Korean security services conduct a secret mission to prevent the breakout of a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula.
Style:
suspense, political thriller, political, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
spy, politics, coup d'etat, inter-korean relations, geopolitics, society, sting operation, danger, rivalry, kickass, covert operation, espionage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north korea, south korea, east asia, korea, seoul
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
After Mao Zedong's death in 1976, Deng Xiaoping returns to power amid political turmoil. Facing divisions within the Communist Party, he leads crucial economic and defense reforms, steering China toward a hopeful future and laying the ...
Style:
historical drama, political, serious, educational, reflective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
biopic, legacy, power struggle, leadership, student, cold war era, interview, archival footage
Time:
20th century
Place:
china, east asia, beijing china
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
After the death of his mother, a young boy travels to China and become a master chef, in his attempt to become head chef of his late mother's restaurant
Style:
anime, inspirational, lighthearted, shounen
Audience:
kids
Plot:
cooking, restaurant, perseverance, coming of age, rivalry, youth, food, magic realism, qing dynasty, death, chef, gourmet ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
china, east asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
With tensions between North and South Korea, a US helicopter crashes on the North side. The survivors must work together to protect a civilian tech specialist and find their way out without the help of US military support.
Style:
political thriller, tension, suspenseful, action packed, tense
Plot:
helicopter crash, survival, border crossing, hostage situation, soldier, us military, teamwork, evacuation, rescue mission, moral ambiguity, collaboration, ruse ...
Time:
near future
Place:
east asia, north korea
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A melancholy story about the love between a woman and a man who live in the same building and one day find out that their husband and wife had an affair with each other. More and more the two meet during their daily lives as they determine that they ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, sexy, art house, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
loneliness, adultery, infidelity, forbidden love, lovers, love affair, marriage, unrequited love, newspaper, true love, love story, relationships ...
Time:
2000s, year 2000, y2k, 60s, 20th century ...
Place:
hong kong, japan, china, east asia, shanghai ...
Is relevant?
23K
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two begin a series of adventures which soon turns out to be a whimsical journey of laughter and tears with a ...
Style:
road movie, sad, surreal, touching, stylized ...
Plot:
boy, on the road, summer, violence, friendship, child, children, road trip, yakuza, bittersweet, youth, coming of age ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
Is relevant?
65K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, China, France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life, over the course of a few years, after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
Style:
sexy, emotional, atmospheric, visually stunning, philosophical ...
Plot:
writers, love, writer's life, destiny, road not taken, androids, sensuality, haunted by the past, old friend, coincidence, memory, introspection ...
Time:
future, year 2004, 2040s, 2000s, y2k ...
Place:
hong kong, china, singapore, east asia, asia
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206K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Style:
bloody, disturbing, cult classic, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
game of death, survival, death, dystopia, violence, gory, desperation, jungle, cruelty, contests and competitions, satire, social commentary ...
Time:
future, year 2000, distant future, 2000s, near future
Place:
japan, asia, east asia, india, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Based on a series of true stories posted by Ho-sik Kim on the Internet describing his relationship with his girlfriend. These were later transformed into a best-selling book and the movie follows the book closely. It describes the meeting of ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, romantic comedy, sweet, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
love, destiny, love story, young love, opposites attract, unlikely couple, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage life, disorder, couple relations, nothing goes right, boyfriend ...
Time:
2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, east asia, asia, korea, seoul ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Style:
captivating, sentimental, dramatic, serious, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
love story, geisha, women, age difference, japanese culture, older man younger woman relationship, brothel, beauty, orphan, love and romance, mentor, femininity ...
Time:
1920s, 1940s, 1930s, ancient times, 20th century ...
Place:
japan, asia, china, east asia, america ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-Woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shadow his young mistress, Heesoo, for fear that she may be cheating on ...
Style:
suspense, tense, bleak, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
revenge, gangster, asian gangster, hitman, gunfight, fall in love, organized crime, brutality, vengeance, violent, betrayal, character study ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, east asia, korea, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, bloody, brutal, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, police investigation, revenge, race against time, police detective, investigation, pursuit, violent, murder, missing person, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, y2k, 21st century
Place:
south korea, east asia, seoul, korea, asia
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242K
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun. The film focuses on events surrounding Ip that took place in the city of Foshan between the 1930s to 1940s during the Second ...
Style:
tense, captivating, heroic, epic, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
martial arts, wing chun, human spirit, master warrior, kung fu, warrior, courage, bravery, training, martial artist, fistfight, sino japanese war ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 1940s, year 1937 ...
Place:
china, east asia, seattle, asia, ancient china ...
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116K
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Having defeated the best fighters of the Imperial Japanese army in occupied Shanghai, Ip Man and his family settle in post-war Hong Kong.Struggling to make a living, Master Ip opens a kung fu school to bring his celebrated art of Wing Chun to the ...
Style:
heroic, exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, wing chun, master warrior, warrior, contests and competitions, fight, fistfight, medieval, pride and honor, mentor, wuxia ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, 1950s, 50s, 1940s ...
Place:
hong kong, china, east asia, asia, tokyo ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
His only friend called him 'the man from nowhere'... Taesik, a former special agent becomes a loner after losing his wife in a miserable accident and lives a bitter life running a pawnshop. He only has a few customers and a friend named ...
Style:
brutal, bloody, touching, emotional, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, girls' night, teens
Plot:
revenge, one man army, violent, martial arts, lone hero, kidnapping, gang, rivalry, child in peril, assassin, master warrior, drug lord ...
Time:
year 2010, y2k, 21st century
Place:
korea, south korea, east asia, asia, seoul
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Set in China during the Warlords Period of the1920s, notorious bandit chief Zhang descends upon a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor, an identity that he had hijacked from Old Tang, himself a small-time imposter. Hell-bent on making a ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, stylized ...
Plot:
gang, dishonesty, strong violent content, cons and scams, heroes, mayor, uninhibited rivalry, criminal heroes, fight, making love, wench, samurai ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s, year 2010
Place:
china, east asia, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, ...
Style:
disturbing, bloody, dark, twist ending, psychological ...
Audience:
date night, manly, adult
Plot:
revenge, serial killer, vengeance, murder, violence, psychopath, violent, extreme violence, gory, mercilessness, murderer, brutality ...
Time:
year 2010, year 2000, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, asia, korea, east asia
Is relevant?
16K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A sinful martial arts expert wants to start a new tranquil life, only to be hunted by a determined detective and his former master.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, surreal, serious, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, wuxia, violence, culture clash, danger, heroes, starting over, gangster, asian history, kung fu master, twists and turns, society ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, year 1917
Place:
china, east asia, asia, hong kong
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the ...
Style:
independent film, sexy, sexual, art house, cerebral ...
Audience:
date night, teens, adult
Plot:
poverty, shoplifting, father son relationship, social realism, poor family, beach, supermarket, child abduction, shoplifter, family drama, husband wife relationship, orphan ...
Time:
near future, 2010s
Place:
tokyo, east asia, japan, sarajevo, nebraska ...
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