Movies and TV shows set in asia
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in asia ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, exciting, stylized, epic and captivating films and TV shows about / with heroes, rivalry, escapades, danger, battles, soldier, fight, asian, violence and society plots mostly in Drama, Action and Romance genres shot in USA, Hong Kong, South Korea and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as asia: A Good Lawyer's Wife (2003), Lust, Caution (2007), Service (2008), Blissfully Yours (2002), The Naked Kitchen (2009), A Frozen Flower (2008), Aegis (2005), 47 Ronin (2013), Trade Of Innocents (2012), Nanking (2007).
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List of movies set in asia
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Bored, horny, and frustrated, a woman begins an affair with a teenage boy.
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, atmospheric, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, older woman younger man sex, sexual content, sexually dissatisfied wife, teenage sexuality, infidelity, family problems, sexually frustrated woman, voyeur, massage, passionate sex, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, korea
Is relevant?
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?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines, France, South Korea, Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A struggling family (Gina Pareño, Jaclyn Jose, Coco Martin) owns a Filipino porn theater where prostitutes conduct their business.
Style:
sexy, controversial, serious, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot:
gay, erection, unwanted pregnancy, sexual relations, extramarital affair, family relations, unsimulated sex, family business, estrangement, realism, couples, family problems ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
asia, the philippines
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The story of a love affair that begins during a picnic on the Thai-Burmese border.
Style:
sexy, contemplative, erotic drama, sensual, touching ...
Plot:
sensuality, forbidden love, picnic, real sex, countryside, on the road, immigrant, infidelity, illegal immigrant, mature woman, summer, nudity ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place:
asia, thailand, burma
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Today is Mo-rae and Sang-in’s one-year wedding anniversary. After a busy morning preparing for the celebration, Mo-rae goes to an art gallery to find a gift for Sang-in. At the gallery, she meets a complete stranger and the two unexpectedly have ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, sentimental, realistic, romantic comedy
Plot:
couple relations, food, restaurant, infidelity, couples, lifestyle, love and romance, menage a trois, divorce, pregnancy, love triangle, asian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, korea
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A historical drama set in the Koryo dynasty and focused on the relationship between a king and his bodyguard. Under the dominance of Yuan Dynasty China, the king of Goryeo Dynasty Korea is pressured to produce a successor to the throne. Unable to ...
Style:
sexy, touching, erotic, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
gays and lesbians, lgbt, gay, royal family, gay love, love triangle, love and romance, gay asian, unrequited love, gay husband, gay sex, sex ...
Time:
middle ages, 14th century, 13th century
Place:
korea, asia
Is relevant?
312
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to a platoon from the Fleet Training Group. No sooner is the Isokaze on open water, however, then the FTG reveal themselves to be terrorist stowaways ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ship, terrorism, military, danger, save the day, heroes, soldier, hijacking, confined, chases and races, national security, navy ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
asia, japan, tokyo, korea, north korea
Is relevant?
179K
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Based on the original 1941 movie from Japan, and from ancient Japan’s most enduring tale, the epic 3D fantasy-adventure 47 Ronin is born. Keanu Reeves leads the cast as Kai, an outcast who joins Oishi (Hiroyuki Sanada), the leader of the 47 ...
Style:
epic, exciting, stylized, fairy tale, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, ronin, revenge, battles, medieval, shogun, beast, half breed, sword and sorcery, samurai sword, heroes ...
Time:
middle ages, 18th century, year 2013, 2010s
Place:
japan, asia, ancient china, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In the back streets of a tourist town in present-day Southeast Asia, we find a filthy cinder block room; a bed with soiled sheets; a little girl waits for the next man. Alex (Dermot Mulroney), a human trafficking investigator, plays the role of her ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot:
human trafficking, sex trafficking, sex slavery, sex maniac, forced prostitution, innocence lost, sex with a minor, life is a bitch, fighting the system, injustice, society, investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
thailand, asia, southeast asia, cambodia
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Japanese army murdered over 200,000 and raped tens of thousands of Chinese. In the midst of this horror, a small group of Western expatriates banded ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, depressing, suspense ...
Plot:
world war two, japanese occupation of china, atrocity, against humanity, japanese history, rescue, rape, testimony, daring rescue, life is a bitch, danger, survival ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1938, year 1937
Place:
china, asia, japan, shanghai
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Khoi, a naive twenty-year-old, travels to Ho Chi Minh City from the countryside to begin a new life. It's his first time in the big city and he's looking for a place to live. He befriends Dong, a handsome extrovert who offers to share his ...
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
gay, gay asian, gay sex, gays and lesbians, love affair, prostitute, gay hustler, male prostitution, gay relationship, gay love, theft, naivete ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, saigon, vietnam
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?
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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?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Young monster kids try to make peace between the world of humans and the world of the monsters.
Style:
entertaining, humorous, captivating, exciting, scenic ...
Plot:
half breed, monster, pregnant man, creature, martial arts, battles, sword and sorcery, heroes, exile, imaginary, escapades, legend ...
Place:
asia, china, ancient china
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Spanning four centuries in Korea, this epic action-adventure concerns a powerful pipe and a trio of wizards who will do anything to protect it.
Style:
epic, exciting, humorous, stylized, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
martial arts, wizards and magicians, imaginary, supernatural, escapades, disorder, misfit, fish out of water, kung fu, wuxia, kung fu master, fight ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
1920s. Vietnam under colonial French ruling. Anti-French rebellions emerge all over the country to disrupt the foreign occupiers. In respond, the colonialist employed units of Vietnamese agents to track and destroy these rebels. The film follows the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, touching
Plot:
martial arts, assassination attempt, social decay, vengeance, undercover, secret agent, wartime life, working undercover, heroic mission, political unrest, political intrigue, genocide ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
asia, southeast asia, vietnam
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After World War II, some Tokyo prostitutes band together with a strict code: no pimps, attack any street walker who comes into our territory, defend the abandoned building we call home, and punish whomever gives away sex (who falls in love). Maya, a ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, erotic drama, sexual, grindhouse ...
Plot:
prostitute, sex, yakuza, female nudity, world war two veteran, pimp, fugitive, torture, rape, brothel, call girl, nude girl ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Place:
asia, tokyo, japan, iceland
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: North Korea, Japan, China
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In feudal Korea, the evil King becomes aware that there is a peasant rebellion being planned in the country. He steals all the iron farming tools and cooking pots from the people so that he may make weapons to fend off the peasant army. After he ...
Style:
daikaiju, allegory, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
giant monster, ancient korea, kaiju, propaganda, battles, monster, priestess, tourism, wizards and magicians, living dead, creature, dinosaur ...
Time:
80s
Place:
asia, korea, north korea
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 135 min.
TV show
Story:
War and Remembrance is an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Herman Wouk. It is the sequel to highly successful The Winds of War.
Style:
historical drama, saga, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, war, nazi germany, military, world war, submarine, dictatorship, nazi, winston churchill, hitler, u.s. president ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
asia, pearl harbor, pacific ocean, japan, europe ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: China
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
The story of the Opium War between China, in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty, and the British Empire, in the 1830s, and the subsequent takeover of Hong Kong by Britain; through the eyes of the key figures, fiercely nationalistic Lin Zexu, and ...
Style:
epic, realistic, serious, thought provoking, captivating
Plot:
qing dynasty, british empire, battles, chinese emperor, chinese history, last stand, fort, fortress, colonialism, diplomacy, opium, historical epic ...
Time:
19th century, 1830s, 1840s, victorian era
Place:
asia, china, hong kong, east asia, united kingdom ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
TV show
Story:
Assigned to accompany two priests on a mission to convert the court of Kublai Khan to Christianity, Marco Polo is abandoned in the mountains when the priests, doubting the very existence of China, turn back. Polo eventually pushes bravely forth ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, atmospheric, epic, realistic ...
Plot:
adventurer, medieval, heroes, heroic mission, dishonesty, rivalry, danger, hopes, political unrest, culture clash, society, priest ...
Time:
middle ages, 13th century
Place:
asia, china, venice, italy
Is relevant?
81K
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Huo Yuan Jia became the most famous martial arts fighter in all of China at the turn of the 20th Century. Huo faced personal tragedy but ultimately fought his way out of darkness, defining the true spirit of martial arts and also inspiring his ...
Style:
inspirational, intense, captivating, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, wuxia, master warrior, redemption, qing dynasty, childhood, medieval, friendship, mentor, biopic, exile ...
Time:
year 2006, ancient times, 1800s, 1910s, 19th century ...
Place:
asia, china, japan, shanghai, east asia ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Episodic saga from the first half of the 20th century follows Hero Hua from an ill-omened June day in his youth to a showdown 17 years later with a disaffected member of his martial-arts school, a Japanese named Invincible. Tensions between Chinese ...
Style:
epic, serious, exciting, stylized
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, wuxia, ninja, curse, kung fu, swashbuckler, superhero, racism, destiny, wiretap, battles, escapades ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
asia, china, usa, new york, hong kong
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Modern day soldiers travel back in time and meet Admiral Lee, the greatest soldier of all time, and motivate him to drive out invaders.
Style:
semi serious, exciting, stylized, humorous, rough ...
Plot:
time travel, military, destiny, heroic mission, korean army, save the kingdom, battles, chaos, imaginary, rivalry, soldier, escapades ...
Time:
16th century, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
asia, japan, korea, china
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore, China
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In this prequel to Mou gaan dou (2002), Chan Wing Yan has just become an undercover cop in the triads while Lau Kin Ming joins the police force. Both the triads and the police find an enemy in a rival crime boss.
Style:
neo noir, suspense, tense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
chinese mafia, triad, gangster, police, organized crime, spy, vengeance, murder, police investigation, survival, asian gangster, recruit ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1991, year 1997, year 1995 ...
Place:
hong kong, asia, china, thailand
Is relevant?
21K
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
China is plunged into strife as feuding warlords try to expand their power by warring over neighboring lands. Fuelled by his success on the battlefield, young and arrogant Hao Jie sneers at Shaolin's masters when he beats one of them in a duel. ...
Style:
serious, stylized, captivating, exciting, realistic ...
Plot:
martial arts, shaolin monk, shaolin, shaolin kung fu, monk, martial artist, wu shu, dictatorship, conquering, kung fu, political unrest, hopes ...
Time:
2010s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
china, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History, Horror, War
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The film is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Japanese at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The film details the various cruel medical experiments ...
Style:
extreme horror, controversial, bleak, brutal, rough ...
Plot:
world war two, gory, torture, japanese history, dehumanization, extreme, violence, violent, experiment, hardcore, chinese history, sino japanese war ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
china, asia, japan, korea, russia ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, cerebral, intellectual, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
loneliness, midlife crisis, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, friendship, character study, alienation, fish out of water, melancholy, unlikely couple, actor, hotel room ...
Time:
2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, yale university, america ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Based loosely on the 16th century historical document entitled ‘The Malay Annals’, ’The Chronicles of Merong Mahawangsa’ is an action-packed epic feature film, with mythical characters, magical moments and dazzling visual-effects sequences. ...
Style:
epic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ancient history, roman, destiny, master warrior, heroes, martial arts, battles, state affairs, heroic mission, tough heroes, wizards and magicians, danger ...
Place:
asia, malaysia, arabia, china
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka "Merrill's Marauders", behind Japanese lines across Burma to Myitkyina, pushing beyond their limits and fighting ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, bleak, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, great war, war, military, swamp, world war, conflict, battles, soldier, jungle warfare, pacific war, chaos ...
Time:
1940s, year 1962, year 1944
Place:
asia, burma, japan, pacific ocean, southeast asia
Is relevant?
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