435 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 1940s
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Times of Joy and Sorrow
Mie Prefecture Hokkaido Prefecture The 1980s The 1940sThe story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.
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The Burmese Harp
๐ฒ๐ฒ Myanmar The 1940sIn the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.
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A Town Like Alice
England ๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia Northern Territory The 1940sA tale of survival. โ In 1941, The advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.
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The Unknown Soldier
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1940sIt is the summer of 1941. An eastern-Finnish machine gun company receives an order to turn in their surplus equipment. The company is transferred to the front lines. The next morning the soldiers wake to the sound of guns - the war has begun. The Finnish troops attack and quickly move across the border. The young, nervous rookies of the company get their baptism of fire, and the men become familiar with death and the hardships of war. Under strength and badly equipped they fight a superior enemy. The lists of heroes and of the dead seem endless. Edvin Laine's epic interpretation of Vรคinรถ Linna's war novel "Tuntematon Sotilas" is an entire chapter in the book of Finnish movie history.
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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong ๐ฐ๐ท South Korea The 1950s The 1940sThe price they pay when they come out of their secret garden and face the world in modern-day Hong Kong - makes this one of the screen's unforgettable experiences! โ A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.
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The Left Hand of God
๐จ๐ณ China The 1940sTHE STRANGEST COVENANT BETWEEN GOD AND MAN EVER MADE! โ A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Catholic mission in 1947 China. Though the man seems curiously uncomfortable with his priestly duties, his tough tactics prove very successful in the Seven Villages, as around them China disintegrates in civil war and revolution. But he has a secret, and his friendship with mission nurse Anne (an attractive war widow) seems to be taking on an unpriestly tone.
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Hill 24 Doesn't Answer
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1940sThe passionate love story of a fighting Irishman and an Israeli lass. โ First movie produced in Israel deals with the outbreak of hostilities during the war for independence in 1947.
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Twenty-Four Eyes
๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sSchoolteacher Hisako Oishi struggles to imbue her students with a positive view of the world despite the fact that war is looming.
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The Purple Plain
๐ฒ๐ฒ Myanmar The 1940sHis peak of adventure! โ A RAF airfield in Burma in 1945, during World War II. Canadian bomber pilot Bill Forrester is a bitter man who lives haunted by a tragic past. He has became a reckless warrior, and is feared by his comrades, who consider him a madman. Dr. Harris, the squadron physician, is determined to help him heal his tormented soul.
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Andha Naal
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1940sRajan, a radio engineer, is found dead under suspicious circumstances. CID officer Sivanandham unravels the mystery surrounding the murder and the suspects that include Rajan's wife and his brother.
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Above and Beyond
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1940sThe love story behind the billion dollar secret! โ The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although unaware of the full potential of this new weapon, he knows that it can do tremendously more damage than any other weapon used before, and that the death toll resulting from it will be huge. He is reluctant to be the person who will end so many lives, but as time goes on, the pressure upon him only increase.
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Destination Gobi
๐ฒ๐ณ Mongolia ๐จ๐ณ China The 1940s The 1930sADVENTURE AS FIERY AND FURIOUS AS THE FLAMING SANDS OF CHINA'S GOBI DESERT! โ A group of US Navy weathermen taking measurements in the Gobi desert in World War II are forced to seek the help of Mongol nomads to regain their ship while under attack from the Japanese.
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China Venture
๐จ๐ณ China The 1930s The 1940sAmerican soldiers undertake a mission to capture a Japanese admiral who has survived an air crash in China during WWII.
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The Juggler
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1940sThe story of a man of passions ! โ A Holocaust survivor moves to Israel and experiences difficulty adjusting to life.
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5 Fingers
England ๐น๐ท Turkey The 1940sThe true story of the most fabulous spy of all time! โ During WWII the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
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Children of Hiroshima
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1940sShows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.
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Thunder in the East
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1940sDuring India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plane in Ghandahar province hoping to get rich. Pacifist Prime Minister Singh hopes to reach an agreement with guerilla leader Khan, the maharajah is a fool, and the British residents are living in the past. Steve's love interest is Joan Willoughby, the blind daughter of a parson.
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Operation Pacific
๐ต๐ญ Philippines The 1940sHe's Skipper "Duke" Gifford Who Could Put A Torpedo Through A Needle...And Sew Up A Date With A Laugh! โ During WWII, Duke E. Gifford is second in command of the USS Thunderfish, a submarine which is firing off torpedoes that either explode too early or never explode at all. It's a dilemma that he'll eventually take up personally. Even more personal is his quest to win back his ex-wife, a nurse; but he'll have to win her back from a navy flier who also happens to be his commander's little brother.
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I Was an American Spy
๐ต๐ญ Philippines The 1940sThe startling TRUE story of America's "Mata Hari" of the South Pacific! โ An American nightclub singer in 1940's Singapore becomes a spy for America in an effort to get back at the invading Japanese army. Based on a true story.
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Francis
๐ฒ๐ฒ Myanmar The 1940sA Talking Mule....the funniest film surprise in 5 years! โ The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic and led to one after another hilarious situations, where the mule was the only one that appeared in his right mind. In the process of all this, the mule assisted in uncovering a spy, Mareen, who pretended to be lost among the jungles, but was actually...
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Three Came Home
๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia The 1940sThe true story of one woman's personal experience! โ Borneo, 1941, during World War II. When the Japanese occupy the island, American writer Agnes Newton Keith is separated from her husband and imprisoned with her son in a prison camp run by the enigmatic Colonel Suga.
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Malaya
๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia The 1940sAfter living abroad for several years, journalist John Royer returns to the United States just after the U.S. enters World War II. His boast that he could easily smuggle rubber, a key wartime natural resource, out of Malaya has him tasked with doing just that. He manages to get someone from his past, Carnaghan, sprung from Alactraz and together they head off to South East Asia posing as Irishmen. Once there, Carnaghan lines up some of his old cronies and with Royer and a few plantation owners plans to smuggle the rubber out from under the Japanese army's watchful eye.
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The Hasty Heart
๐ฒ๐ฒ Myanmar The 1940sIt's 1945, Burma, the day the war is over! For many this means they've survived and will be going home. But not for everyone. A Scottish soldier, Corporal Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan is the victim of a wound to the lower back on this day. He's moved to a M.A.S.H. unit and undergoes surgery. As time goes by he begins to recover and watches, in dismay as soldiers pack up and head for home. The doctors have told him he needs to remain "for observation".
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The Battle of Stalingrad
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1940sA 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad, directed by Vladimir Petrov. The script was written by Nikolai Virta.
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