| Nanking (2007) | 7.7 | |
| Mother (2009) | 7.7 | |
| Haikyu!! (2014) | 8.7 | |
| Fearless (2006) | 7.6 | |
| Samsara (2001) | 7.7 |
Movies and TV shows set in asia – page 3
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List of movies set in asia
Genre: Drama
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Karaoke juxtaposes a young man's idealism with the reality of a changing Malaysia through karaoke videos.
Style:
sentimental, touching, clever, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family relations, workplace, wooing, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, artists and showbiz, filmmaking, family business, village, manipulation, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
malaysia, asia, southeast asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After his attempted robbery runs aground, a thief takes a shine to his would-be victim, a charming prostitute, who begins to tell him her life story.
Style:
talky, realistic, humorous, not serious, emotional ...
Plot:
prostitution, silly humor, fall in love, unfulfillment, love and romance, life story, sex work, resilience, survival, brothel, female protagonist, storytelling ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
hong kong, asia, china
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Tachigui retells Japan's history from 1945 to 21st century through the feats of self-proclaimed dine and dash professionals - the Fast Food Grifters are the phantoms that rise and fall with the shifting diet-styles. They are the dissenting ...
Style:
experimental, humorous, surreal, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
lifestyle, restaurant, cooking and food, society, criminal heroes, food, superhero, asian, satire, demolished city, eating
Time:
1940s, 70s, 80s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Ji-hwan is a taekwondo student with a part time job as a stunt man, who dreams of becoming Korea's answer to Jackie Chan. Dal-rae is a drama student and aspiring actress, but tends to fail auditions because of her timid personality.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, uplifting ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
ambition, love and romance, fall in love, lifestyle, friends, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, actor's life, taekwondo, young adult, coming of age, youth culture ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
asia, seoul, east asia, korea
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Six guys wacky guys, who worked together at a summer beach bar job, come across a letter from dream girl Eriko. The letter isn't addressed to anyone in particular, but asks if the recipient would meet her at the beach bar on Christmas Eve. Each ...
Style:
realistic, not serious, humorous, sitcom, situational comedy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
rivalry, mistaken identity, nothing goes right, friends, buddies, disorder, wooing, contests and competitions, beach, christmas eve, male camaraderie, summer job ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In this film, Louis Koo tries to woo a Beijing theater student (Cherry Ying), but he suffers from memory loss, and he keeps forgetting who she is.
Style:
sentimental, feel good, humorous, not serious, witty ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
memory loss, couples, couple relations, young lovers, youth, love and romance, fall in love, disorder, true love, amnesia, forgetfulness, relationships ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
asia, beijing china, hong kong
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Can a coward commit suicide?
Meet Kita Yoshio, a very unlucky man who has chosen his close friend's death anniversary as his suicide date, which is 11 days away. The number 11 has been quite significant throughout his life: he was born on ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, black comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
midlife crisis, suicidal, jazz, introspection, hopes, unfulfillment, down on your luck, life, character study, self discovery, suicide attempt, bittersweet ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
asia, japan
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
The girls of Class 1-C are starting their tenth-grade year with a new teacher: Becky Miyamoto, an 11-year-old MIT grad! She’s an intellectual titan—but can she handle the temperamental teens and idiotic aliens that await her instruction?
Style:
anime, humorous, semi serious, parody, absurd ...
Plot:
high school, high school life, youth, power relations, teachers and students, prodigy, child as adult, mischievous children, school, teacher student relationship, slice of life, satire ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Mysteries keep revolving around Tam’s life.
Style:
realistic, stylized, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
police detective, investigation, law enforcement, police investigation, private detective, murder, riddles and clues, danger, killer, serial killer, violent content, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, china, thailand
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Red Vacance A young woman and a married middle-aged man have been involved in an affair for 6 years. They plan to go on a vacation, but the man's wife learns of their affair and takes her husband to a remote place. There the wife asks the ...
Style:
naughty, realistic, serious, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
male nudity, adultery, wedding ring, female nudity, caught having sex, love affair, infidelity, older man younger woman relationship, love and romance, dishonesty, sexual relations, love triangle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, north korea, korea
Is relevant?
119
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
A film that explores the true meaning of a word by medical professionals, feelings of real people and the images that represent the word to the filmmaker. The viewer will get into a journey through true stories and feelings, chasing the true meaning ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
hip hop, misfit, social misfits, cause and meaning, friendship, rap, hip hop culture, japanese culture, friends, pop culture, musician's life, humour ...
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Singapore
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Set in the mid 1990s in Singapore, ILOILO chronicles the relationship between a family and their maid from Ilo Ilo, a province in the Philippines.
Style:
realistic, sincere, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, boy, migrant worker, financial crisis, family life, parents and children, society, youth, maid, nude bathing, father son relationship ...
Time:
20th century, year 2013, 90s
Place:
singapore, asia, the philippines
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia, a terrorist organization has stolen materials to create a dangerous chemical bomb. It is up to Captain Max Randall and his team of Marines to stop them. But when Randall's team kill the terrorist ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, terrorist, female warrior, military, soldier, jungle, confined, danger, violent content, heroes, rescue, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
southeast asia, asia, the philippines, manila philippines
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The movie is inspired by the 1979 classic sexy-comedy film Salawahan directed by Ishmael Bernal whom originally stars Rita Gomez, Mat Ranillo, Jay Ilagan, Rio Locsin, Sandy Andolong, and Bonching Miraflor.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good
Plot:
couples, love and romance, friends, buddies, womanizer, fall in love, switching roles, wooing, restaurant, lifestyle, nanny, playboy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, the philippines
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of Shikotan became part of the Sakhalin Oblast... and on the unhealed border in this remote corner of the world, friendship among children from two ...
Style:
anime, realistic, touching, emotional, serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
friendship, young heroes, social differences, forceful separation, life turned upside down, society, deportation, village, white supremacy, dancing, post war, disaster ...
Time:
20th century, post world war two, year 1946, 2010s, 1940s ...
Place:
asia, japan, soviet union, ussr
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A devout village leader prohibits an array of modern devices, but when his strict measures go too far, the locals rise up in popular rebellion.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, poignant ...
Plot:
village life, technophobia, satire, against the rules, social relations, media, rebellion, television, tradition, social change, moral dilemma, imagination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, bangladesh, india
Is relevant?
248
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Hong Sang-Soo’s Lost in the Mountains (South Korea, 32min) the visitor is the supremely self-centred Mi-Sook, who drives to Jeonju on impulse to see her classmate Jin-Young – only to discover that her friend is having an affair with their ...
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, stylized
Plot:
social relations, couple relations, haunted by the past, unlikely couple, down on your luck, professor, abduction, realism, island, illicit affair, writers, power ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, japan, korea, the philippines
Is relevant?
144
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
"Login" is a Hindi feature film about three different individuals and how the Internet and social networking sites affect their lives...
Style:
serious, realistic, tech noir, suspenseful, independent film
Plot:
couple relations, couples, love and romance, looking for love, dishonesty, adult virgin, computers and web, lust, extramarital affair, infidelity, sexual obsession, technology ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia, mumbai india
Is relevant?
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, India
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A woman cooks for clients and tries to keep her thefts of food and money from being discovered.
Style:
realistic, clever, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
cooking, food, dishonesty, power relations, cons and scams, society, master and servant, couple relations, unlikely criminals, family relations, cooking and food, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, new delhi, india
Is relevant?
108
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Former punk rocker Jonen, now a Buddhist priest, seems to have lost the meaning of his life. His manic depression handicaps him further. Music seems to be the only solution for him to exorcise his demons, against all obstacles and sound volume ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
introspection, musician's life, artists and showbiz, self discovery, society, bittersweet, unfulfillment, redemption, follow your dream, hopes, rock, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, japan
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: Thailand
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A homage and parody of 1950s and 1960s Thai romantic melodramas and action films. Dum, the son of a peasant falls in love with Rumpoey, the daughter of a wealthy and respected family. The star-crossed lovers are torn apart for years, but their ...
Style:
serious, surreal, realistic, stylized, touching ...
Plot:
lovers apart, betrayal, gunfight, bandit, love triangle, rivalry, class society, social differences, destiny, vengeance, gang, gory ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place:
thailand, asia, bangkok thailand
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An overzealous soldier mentally deteriorates after killing an innocent man he thought was a spy.
Style:
psychological, realistic, bleak, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
soldier, mistaken identity, insanity, murder, military life, obsession, disorder, social relations, military, brother sister relationship, korean war, brother brother relationship ...
Place:
asia, north korea, korea, seoul, south korea ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Music, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Pop band Pink Dolls emerges to stardom after releasing a remake of “White,” written by an anonymous composer. The more popular the members become, however, the more they become torn by jealousy and rivalries. But as the girls each take turns to ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending, suspense ...
Plot:
curses spells and rituals, curse, mysterious death, showbiz, music band, music, celebrity culture, rising to stardom, ambition, danger, woman in danger, supernatural power ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, korea
Is relevant?
13K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Disowned by his father as a boy, Surya is taken in by a crime boss. When his brother Shiv is wrongly imprisoned, his father pleads for Surya's help.
Style:
sexy, exciting, realistic, semi serious, stylized ...
Plot:
cheerleader, corrupt cop, father son reunion, bully, police brutality, father figure, bad cop, corrupt politician, showdown, criminal's revenge, one man army, good versus evil ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
india, asia, delhi
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In France, the single translator Diane Siprien adopts an Asian baby named Liu-San in a foundation directed by Sybille Weber. Years later, a weird mark appears on the boy's chest and Diane and Liu share their dreadful nightmares. Diane is ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, demonic, entertaining ...
Plot:
child in peril, adoption, translator, curses spells and rituals, adopted son, scientist, murder, police, danger, bear, boy, blood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, mongolia, france, europe, siberia
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines, France, Netherlands, Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young man tries to make some money so he can marry his girlfriend. He takes a job for $2,000 and then soon realizes that this job involves killing a woman.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, captivating, serious, neorealism ...
Plot:
couples, rape, police corruption, downfall, murder, hopes, unlikely criminals, life is a bitch, kidnapping, job seeking, social decay, judge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, the philippines
Is relevant?
22K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A futuristic 'Brief Encounter', a love story in which the romance is doomed by genetic incompatibility.
Style:
futuristic, philosophical, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
dystopia, dystopian future, husband wife relationship, infidelity, distopia, cyberpunk, abortion, cloning, pregnancy, coitus, forgery, investigation ...
Time:
future, year 2003, near future
Place:
asia, shanghai, china, middle east, seattle ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action
Country: Canada, Hong Kong, UK, Thailand, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Jake and Sunti go to meet Mongkol, the leader of the Abu Karaf. Mongkol confirms that ever since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Jantapan has worked to corner the narcotics and arms markets. Jake must engage in a battle that will put ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kidnapping, black magic, skinny dipping, rescue, terrorism, tough heroes, race against time, wiretap, missing person, parents and children, lone wolves ...
Time:
90s
Place:
asia, thailand, washington d.c., hawaii
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Thailand, France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A romance between a soldier and country boy splinters into a mythical venture based on Thai folklore.
Style:
surreal, slow cinema, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
gay, shaman, jungle, friendship, mysticism, lgbt, shapeshifting, gay love, male nudity, bare chested male, love and romance, human nature ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
thailand, asia, bangkok thailand, indiana
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
This movie is based on the Butterfly Lovers, or Liang Zhu, a Chinese legend about the tragic romance between two lovers, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. Retelling the Wuxia version of the story, it was filmed in Shanghai in 2008. The story features ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, stylized ...
Plot:
martial arts, fall in love, master warrior, unfulfillment, love, kung fu, martial arts training, mentor, rivalry, clan, vengeance, hidden identity ...
Place:
asia
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