15 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 15th Century
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Masquerade
🇰🇷 South Korea The 15th CenturyA look-alike commoner is secretly hired to take the place of a poisoned king to save his country from falling into chaos.
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Flying Swords Of Dragon Gate
🇨🇳 China The 15th CenturyJet Li and Tsui Hark are back together. — Flying Swords of Dragon Gate picks up three years after the infamous Dragon Inn was burnt down in the desert when its innkeeper Jade vanished. A new gang of marauders had taken over - innkeepers by day and treasure hunters by night. The inn is the rumoured location of a lost city buried under the desert, and its hidden treasure would only be revealed by a gigantic storm every 60 years. The gang used the inn as a front to locate the lost treasure.
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Flirting Scholar 2
🇨🇳 China The 15th CenturyTang Bohu's mother sends him to study at Qingfeng Monastery, but he can't bear the austere and monotonous life at the monastery. So, his three good friends secretly take Tang Bohu out for an excursion, where they run into Qian Qian/Qiu Xiang. Tang Bo Hu immediately falls for her, but later, she gets accused as being a spider spirit and is about to be burned to death by a priest...
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The Maidens' Conspiracy
🇹🇷 Turkey The 15th Century The 14th CenturyConstantinople, XV century. The ladies' complot — Constantinople, 1401. The emperor of Byzantium asks the famous knight Tirant lo Blanc to free the city from the siege of the Turks. After his victory, Tirant will have to face a more difficult task: to overcome the natural opposition of Carmesina, heiress to the Ottoman Empire, to surrender her most precious treasure.
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King and the Clown
🇰🇷 South Korea The 15th CenturySet in the late 15th century during the reign of King Yeonsan, two male street clowns and tightrope walkers, Jangsaeng (Gam Wu-seong) and Gong-gil (Lee Joon-gi), are part of an entertainer troupe. Their manager prostitutes the beautiful Gong-gil to rich customers, and Jangsaeng is sickened by this practice. After Gong-gil kills the manager in defense of Jangsaeng, the pair flee to Seoul, where they form a new group with three other street performers...
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A Legendary Love
🇲🇾 Malaysia The 15th CenturyKisah cinta agung [A legendary love] — In the late 15th century, a forbidden romance blossoms between Gusti Putri, a Javanese Hindu princess and Hang Tuah, a Malay Muslim warrior from Melaka, against a backdrop of war and mysticism.
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Princess Mononoke
🇯🇵 Japan The 16th Century The 15th Century The 14th CenturyThe Fate Of The World Rests On The Courage Of One Warrior. — Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.
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Flirting Scholar
🇨🇳 China The 15th CenturyA scholar in search of true love. Disguising himself as a houseboy, he indentures himself to a rich family in order to pursue the ravishing servant girl who has stolen his heart.
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New Dragon Gate Inn
🇨🇳 China The 15th CenturyIn the desert, only the strong survive. — During the Ming Dynasty, Tsao Siu-yan, a power-crazed eunuch who rules his desert region of China as if he were the Emperor, ruthlessly thwarts plots against him and sets a trap for one of his enemies at the Dragon Gate Inn.
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The Diary of King Yonsan
🇰🇷 South Korea The 15th CenturyA historical drama about the life of Prince Yeonsan of Joseon,.
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Secret Service of the Imperial Court
🇨🇳 China The 15th CenturySecret Service of the Imperial Court was one of the last kung fu/swordplay films to be made at Hong Kong's Shaw Bros. studio. Set in the Ming Dynasty, it makes excellent use of the studio's vast array of sprawling sets and colorful costumes to give a real period flavor. It has a good cast, lots of large-scale fight action and an exciting storyline about a conflict between an honorable officer and a corrupt Eunuch.
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The Three Smiles
🇨🇳 China The 15th CenturyThe film tells the story of Tang Bohu, a famous scholar who spends most of his time wandering around the countryside.
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Dragon Inn
🇨🇳 China The 15th CenturyAfter having the emperor’s minister of defense executed, a power-grabbing eunuch sends assassins to trail the victim’s children to a remote point on the northern Chinese border. But that bloodthirsty mission is confounded by a mysterious group of fighters who arrive on the scene, intent on delivering justice and defending the innocent.
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Black Cat Mansion
🇯🇵 Japan The 20th Century The 16th Century The 15th CenturyThe descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to find that a cat who is possessed by the spirits of those murdered by the samurai is trying to kill her.
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Nilachaley Mahaprabhu
🇮🇳 India The 15th CenturyNilachaley Mahaprabhu was a 1957 Indian Bengali biographical film directed by Kartik Chattopadhyay, based on the life of 15th-century mystic Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, who started his spiritual journey and Hindu reform movement, part of the Bhakti movement during his years at Nilachal, the shrine of Jagannath at Puri. It stars Asim Kumar in the titular role with Dipti Roy, Sumitra Devi, Ahindra Choudhury, Bhanu Bandyopadhyay, Nripati Chattopadhyay and Chhabi Biswas in supporting roles.
