Eastern movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant eastern movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, exciting and rough films and TV shows about / with eastern, danger, martial arts, revenge, rivalry, fight, murder, heroes, shot to death and asian plots mostly in Drama, Action and Thriller genres shot in Japan, Hong Kong, China and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as eastern: A Scene at the Sea (1991), In the Mood for Love (2000), Dolls (2002), A Moment to Remember (2004), Three Times (2005), Samurai Spy (1965), Samurai Rebellion (1967), Double Suicide (1969), Shogun Assassin (1980), Blood Brothers (2007).

List of eastern movies

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A Scene at the Sea (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When deaf garbage man Shigeru (Kurôdo Maki) finds a broken surfboard on one of his runs, it piques his curiosity, even though he has no experience with surfing. So he repairs the board and, with loyal girlfriend Takako (Hiroko Oshima), who also is ...
Style: light hearted, contemplative, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: deaf, surfing, mute or deaf, beach, thoughtful, love, teenager, mental disorder, love letter, outsider, reconciliation, disability ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: japan, asia
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In the Mood for Love (2000)
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: art house, atmospheric, melancholic, visually stunning, artsy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: loneliness, adultery, infidelity, forbidden love, marriage, love affair, unrequited love, love, newspaper, food, tragedy, betrayal ...
Time: 60s, 2000s, y2k, year 2000, 20th century ...
Place: hong kong, japan, china, east asia, shanghai ...
Is relevant ?
 7.5
 17K
Dolls (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif -- specifically, the kind practiced in Bunraku doll theater performances -- opening each section of his film with a story provided by the puppets and their masters, which relates thematically to the ...
Style: surreal, emotional, lyrical, melancholic, romantic ...
Plot: obsession, regret, love, culture clash, philosophy, suicide attempt, disfigurement, love and romance, renewed love, blind character, mental illness, melancholy ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: japan, east asia, asia
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A Moment to Remember (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A young couple's love is tested when Sun-jin is diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.
Style: touching, realistic, romantic, sincere, sad ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: love affair, memory loss, alzheimer's disease, love story, couple relations, love, love and romance, asian, class differences, memory, father daughter relationship, resentment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, east asia, asia
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 6.9
 6K
Three Times (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Taiwan
Duration: 139 min.
Story: There are three stories of women and men: in "A Time for Love" set in 1966, a soldier searches for a young woman he met one afternoon playing pool; "A Time for Freedom," set in a bordello in 1911, revolves around a singer's ...
Style: anthology, thought provoking, touching, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Plot: longing, love affair, tragic love, social differences, couples, fall in love, wartime life, love triangle, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, time, minimalism, asian ...
Time: 60s, 1910s, 2000s, year 2005, 20th century ...
Place: taiwan, taipei, tokyo, shanghai
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 7.0
 2K
Samurai Spy (1965)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama defects from the shogun to a rival clan, however, the world of ...
Style: suspenseful, stylized, serious, realistic, exciting
Plot: samurai, ninja, japanese history, medieval, clan, swordplay, martial arts, spy, espionage, heroic mission, hitman, gang ...
Time: 17th century
Place: japan
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Samurai Rebellion (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her back.
Style: tense, emotional, stylized, black and white, sincere ...
Plot: samurai, father son relationship, rebellion, revenge, medieval, martial arts, violence, vengeance, kidnapping, family relations, injustice, master warrior ...
Time: 18th century, year 1967
Place: japan, asia
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Double Suicide (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, mind bending, romantic, spiritual ...
Plot: suicide, female nudity, sex, prostitution, existentialism, love letter, spirituality, prostitute, samurai, couples, power relations, rebellion ...
Time: year 1969, 18th century
Place: japan, asia
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Shogun Assassin (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A Shogun who grew paranoid as he became senile sent his ninjas to kill his samurai. They failed but did kill the samurai’s wife. The samurai swore to avenge the death of his wife and roams the countryside with his toddler son in search of ...
Style: bloody, grindhouse, visual, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ninja, martial arts, samurai, kung fu, female nudity, female ninja, violence, yakuza, exploitation, violent, gory, shogun ...
Time: 19th century, 16th century, 15th century
Place: japan, asia
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Blood Brothers (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan, China
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Fung (Daniel Wu) and his best friends, brothers Kang (Liu Ye) and Hu (Tony Yang), leave the countryside together to make it big in Shanghai. Things aren't so easy in the city, however, and the brothers stumble and toil until opportunity brings ...
Style: rough, stylized, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot: innocence lost, friendship, betrayal, rise and fall, village life, best friend, starting over, lifestyle, city life, triad, heroic bloodshed, nightclub ...
Time: 1930s
Place: china, shanghai, ancient china, asia
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 6.9
 5K
Breath (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A love story involving a convicted prisoner who "slowly falls for a woman who decorates his prison cell".
Style: contemplative, atmospheric, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: confined, love affair, estrangement, unfulfillment, prison, suicide attempt, surveillance camera, prison guard, passion, mission, moving, prison life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, seoul, korea, asia
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 6.4
 17K
CJ7 (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Ti, a really poor construction worker that struggles to keep his son, Dicky, in private school, mistakes an orb he finds in a junkjard for a toy which proves to be much, much more once the young boy starts to play with it.
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, funny ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: benign alien, extraterrestrial, toys, youth, little boy, adaptation, transformation, alien, family relations, martial arts, goofy hero, pets ...
Time: year 2008, y2k
Place: china
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 6.8
 142K
Green Zone (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Spain, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped ...
Style: political thriller, suspense, tense, exciting, political ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: cia, iraq war, military, war, soldier, spy, army, deception, pow, chase, investigation, politics ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: iraq, middle east, baghdad iraq
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Forest of Death (2007)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In a mysterious forest in Thailand, many suicidal youths disappear and rescue teams can not find the way out even with compass. The ambitious reporter May is making sensationalist journalism exploring the deaths in the forest. Her boyfriend and ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: investigation, murder, police detective, death, suicide, forest, journalism, supernatural, danger, who done it, reporter, woods ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
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 6.7
 14K
Flash Point (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Detective Sergeant Ma Jun, known for dispensing his own brand of justice during arrests, teams up with an undercover cop, Wilson, to try and bring down three merciless Vietnamese brothers running a smuggling ring in the months before mainland ...
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, non stop action ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, drug lord, kung fu, fighting crime, fight, police investigation, gang, danger, rivalry, working undercover, vigilantism, arrest ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 90s
Place: hong kong, china, asia
Is relevant ?
 7.5
 305K
Lone Survivor (2013)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find ...
Style: rough, tense, captivating, emotional, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, survival, soldier, war, terrorism, gunfight, courage, military life, selflessness, war on terror, squad, army ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east, usa
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 5.7
 1K
Triad Wars (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In the midst of a violent gang war, a series of misfortunes threaten the fate of a gang boss and his mob.
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, betrayal, kidnapping, police investigation, hitman, gangster, vigilantism, vengeance, dishonesty, criminal heroes, danger, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Is relevant ?
 7.4
 4K
Suspect X (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A male corpse is discovered with a smashed face and burned hands. Strangely, the cause of death is determined to be strangulation. When Detective Kaoru Utsumi attempts to corroborate the victim’s ex-wife’s alibi she discovers the mysterious ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, psychological thriller, suspenseful, twisted ...
Plot: investigation, mathematics, suspicion, rivals, justice, mind game, murder, fighting crime, police detective, secret identity, battle of wits, hidden identity ...
Place: tokyo
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 8.0
 233K
Ip Man (2008)
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: heroic, epic, exciting, tense, uplifting ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, wing chun, human spirit, master warrior, courage, bravery, training, warrior, martial artist, ambition, fight scenes ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 1940s, year 1937 ...
Place: china, east asia, seattle, asia, ancient china
Is relevant ?
 6.2
 854
Open City (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Jo Dae-yeong is a police officer investigating a pickpocket ring with ties to the Yakuza. One day he rescues Baek Jang-mi from danger, only to discover that she is the boss of the gang he has been tracking.
Style: exciting, tense, suspenseful, rough, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, police detective, rescue, femme fatale, police investigation, dishonesty, master criminal, heroes, redemption, law enforcement, going straight, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
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Legendary Assassin (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An assassin who is fresh from his latest kill becomes stranded in an island, when he inadvertently befriends a female police officer. As the night progresses, the unspoken truth honored by the two sides of the law is broken. After the remains of a ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, police investigation, mysterious character, on the run, gang, friendship, law enforcement, moral dilemma, rivalry, medieval, hitman, gangster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, asia
Is relevant ?
 7.5
 902
All Around Us (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure the tragedy of their first child’s death, hope slowly unfolds and their love story flickers to ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, psychological, serious ...
Plot: family problems, couple relations, estrangement, society, pregnancy, death in the family, social decay, dysfunctional family, unfulfillment, love and romance, painter, painting ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
Is relevant ?
 6.3
 12K
Norwegian Wood (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Set in the 1960's, high school student Toru Watanabe loses his only friend Kizuki after he commits suicide. Toru, now looking for a new life, enters a university in Tokyo. By chance, Toru meets Kizuki's ex-girlfriend Naoko in the ...
Style: romantic, artsy, visually appealing, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot: suicide, teenager, japanese school, love story, coming of age, young man, young lovers, love triangle, introspection, self discovery, haunted by the past, sex ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: tokyo, east asia, asia, japan
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 6.5
 91K
12 Strong (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A team of CIA agents and special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.
Style: touching, historical drama, anamorphic, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: adult
Plot: soldier, cia, military, taliban, special forces, war on terror, heroism, behind enemy lines, us military, war in afghanistan, machismo, commando mission ...
Time: september 11 2001, 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east, usa
Is relevant ?
 6.3
 8K
14 Blades (2010)
Genre: Action, History, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China, Singapore
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Trained in clandestine combat from childhood, the Jinyiwei were masters of the 14 Blades; eight being for torture, five for killing, and the last blade reserved for suicide when a mission failed. An elite force of secret agents with a license to ...
Style: exciting, stylized, suspenseful, serious, epic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, wuxia, kung fu, betrayal, rebellion, female killer, rivalry, danger, dishonesty, state affairs, emperor, medieval ...
Time: year 2010, 17th century, medieval times
Place: china, east asia, asia, ancient china
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Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Seven years after the apparent death of Chen Zhen, who was shot after discovering who was responsible for his teacher's death (Huo Yuanjia) in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. A mysterious stranger arrives from overseas and befriends a local mafia ...
Style: exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, resistance, kung fu, undercover, assassination, fight, master warrior, spy, vengeance, state affairs, dishonesty, kung fu classic ...
Time: 20th century, year 2010, 2010s, 1930s, 1940s ...
Place: china, shanghai, asia
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Raging Phoenix (2009)
Genre: Action, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A violent gang is abducting and killing women around Thailand. Sanim and his friends, having had loved ones abducted, have joined together to break the gang of kidnappers. In a botched kidnap attempt, Deu is saved by Sanim's crew. After ...
Style: serious, captivating, exciting, tense, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, female wrestler, fight, rivalry, gang, danger, kidnapping, righting the wronged, vengeance, confined, kung fu, kickass women ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
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The Incite Mill (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Ten people gather together at a complex named “Ankikan” after hearing of a short term job paying 112,000 Yen ($1,236 USD) per hour. The ten people are informed that they will be monitored 24 hours a day for 7 days straight in a psychological ...
Style: psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: prisoner, game of death, murder, fight, vengeance, chase, blood, paranoia, rage, revenge, secret, killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 16K
Dragon (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 115 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: stylized, melancholic, surreal, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, wuxia, kung fu, culture clash, violence, danger, heroes, starting over, gangster, twists and turns, society, mafia ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, year 1917
Place: china, east asia, asia
Is relevant ?
 6.4
 801
Cut (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, France, USA, South Korea, Turkey
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Shuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that his loan shark brother, who had helped to finance his films, has been executed by his own yakuza gang for failing to repay his debts. Described as a ...
Style: rough, tense, psychological, serious, art house ...
Plot: filmmaking, gangster, life is a bitch, obsession, estrangement, violence spree, asian, strong violent content, yakuza, eastern
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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