234 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 1970s
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Late Meeting
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1970sThe film takes place in Leningrad and Sverdlovsk, in 1970 and 1979. Arriving on a business trip from Sverdlovsk in the Lenfilm, engineer catapults Sergei Gushchin meets a young actress Natasha. She invites him to show Leningrad, but Gushchin and he knows the city - he served here during the war. They are looking for an excuse for further meetings, but he always finds a reason to not to meet with the woman who is many years younger than him and with whom he has fallen in love with. Natasha understands too that she loves this man, but Gushchin leaves, and not daring to associate with her fate. In the end he leaves and only returns to Leningrad nine years later and then he tries to find Natasha again.
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Revenge of the Pink Panther
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong The 1970sJust when you thought it was safe to go back to the movies... โ Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the worldโand Charles Dreyfusโbelieve when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clouseau knows differently and, taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.
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Midnight Express
๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐น๐ท Turkey The 1970sWalk into the incredible true experience of Billy Hayes, and bring all the courage you can! โ Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
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The Deer Hunter
Pennsylvania ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1960s The 1970sOne of the most important and powerful films of all time! โ A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.
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Pink Lady's Motion Picture
New York Texas Tokyo Prefecture Shizuoka Prefecture The 1970sAn awkward attempt to build a movie around Pink Lady, the name given to a Japanese pop music duo consisting of the very pretty short-haired Mie and the long-haired Kei. Their popularity in Japan lasted from 1976 to 1979 before their attempt to break into the American market with the ill-fated TV show, "Pink Lady and Jeff" (1980), which wound up setting back the cause of J-pop in America by nearly 30 years. Pink Lady they gained a certain amount of attention from the sexy disco-inspired outfits they wore in concert, generally featuring shiny scanty tops, tight hot pants and gold or silver boots, seen to good advantage in some segments of the movie. This musical features the Pink Ladies as circus performers who show kindness toward a captured "monster," a sad, furry being (played by a man in a bulky, over-sized pink acrylic costume) who suffers acts of unusual cruelty by the keeper and ringmaster before the girls escape with the creature in a circus trailer.
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A Walk in the Sun
๐จ๐พ Cyprus The 1970sTore Andersson is a depressed 43 year old sport journalist living in Stockholm. His girlfriend has left him so he decides to take a vacation in Cyprus.
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
๐ฎ๐ณ India Indiana Wyoming The 1970sWe are not alone โ After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
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Office Romance
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1970sAnatoli Yefremovich Novoseltsev works in a statistics institution, whose director is an unattractive and bossy woman. An old friend of his, Yuri Grigorievich Samokhvalov, who gets appointed assistant director of the institution, wants to make Novoseltsev the head of the department but encounters objections from Ludmila Prokopievna Kalugina, the director. Samokhvalov then advises Novoseltsev to lightly hit on the boss. Ironically, Novoseltsev and Kalugina fall in love with each other...
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The Choirboys
California ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1970s The 1960sDon't look for these guys in church. โ A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.
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Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds
Yamanashi Prefecture The 1970sFrom appetizer to dessert - One town becomes a monster meal. โ A Japanese geologist discovers that dinosaurs still exist in caves beneath the surface of a volcanic lake.
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Hokuriku Proxy War
Shizuoka Prefecture Ishikawa Prefecture Fukui Prefecture The 1970s The 1960sIn the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in true-life yakuza film history, director Kinji Fukasaku shows battles among yakuza who value land over tradition. Hiroki Matsukata stars as Noboru Kawada, a Hokuriku yakuza who will use any measure for survival, disregarding parents, brothers, and tradition.
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The Omen
England ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ฎ๐น Italy District of Columbia The 1970sIt is the greatest mystery of all because no human being will ever solve it. โ Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesnโt know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
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King Kong
New York ๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 1970sThe most exciting original motion picture event of all time. โ In this remake of the 1933 classic, an oil company expedition disturbs the peace of a giant ape and brings him back to New York to exploit him.
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Raid on Entebbe
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐บ๐ฌ Uganda The 1970sBased on a true Military operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the PFLP. The plane has about 100 Jewish passengers. The plane is grounded in Uganda. Israelis would not negotiate. The movie then shows how less than 500 soldiers actually flew so far and rescued the passengers in one of the most successful Military operations in history. The only casualty for Israeli soldiers was Lt. Col. Jonathan "Yoni" Netanyahu..
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Afonya
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1970sThe 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya "Afonya" was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main character "Afonya" Borshev is a plumber, who spends his life partying with "buddies", many of whom he doesn't even remember after nights of heavy drinking. His wife leaves him, his boss places him on probation, his whole life is falling apart, but he doesn't realize it. Afonya met Katya at a dance club, yet didn't pay her much attention. But she is the one, who can save him... In this movie Daneliya achieves a perfect balance of satire and drama. Quotes from the movie gained a cult status in USSR.
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Deewaar
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1970sReflecting the tumultuous politics of the early โ70s in India, Deewar tells the story of a pair of impoverished brothers who, after their family is betrayed by the misplaced idealism of their father, struggle to survive on the streets of Mumbai. They head for a showdown when one becomes a policeman, and the other becomes a criminal.
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The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1970sA group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Years eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them (Sasha) has to go to Leningrad but another one (Zhenya) goes. Zhenya wakes up at Leningrad airport. Believing that he is still in Moscow he takes a taxi and goes home. The street name, building and even apartment number, the way an apartment complex looks the same and the key coincide completely - just typical Soviet-type 'economy' architecture. Imagine the surprise of Nadya when she enters her apartment and finds a man without trousers in her bed. What's more - Nadya's fiancรฉ also finds him there...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
Osaka Prefecture Fukuoka Prefecture The 1970s The 1960sThe seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The next stage of this continuing drama is the Kanmon Channel where the Owada and the Kyoei groups are battling for territorial rights and drug smuggling. The Owada sends their man, Tetsu, and his friend Shuji to kill the Kyoei boss. With the promise of fame and riches, Shuji takes the fall and goes to jail for 7 years. But when he's released, he discovers that he and Tetsu have been all but forgotten by the Owada. Feeling betrayed, Shuji takes natters into his own hands and becomes an unsuspecting pawn in an internal conflict and an assassination attempt on the Owada boss. And now angered, Shuji seeks revenge...
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Attila 74: The Rape of Cyprus
๐จ๐พ Cyprus The 1970sThe film that gives an answer to the questions of all the Greeks about the culprits for the Cyprus' tragedy. Junta - Turkey - America. โ An indictment of the protagonists in the Cypriot civil war.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1970s The 1960sWhile Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.
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Introduction to the Enemy
๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1970sThis film documents the journey of actress Jane Fonda and her husband โ future California state senator Tom Hayden โ through North and South Viet Nam in 1974. They travel from villages to towns talking with ordinary Vietnamese about their lives and the effects of the war on their lives, families, and communities.
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Enter the Dragon
California Henan Province ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong The 1970sTheir deadly mission: to crack the forbidden island of Han! โ A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.
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The Exorcist
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq District of Columbia The 1970sSomething almost beyond comprehension is happening to a girl on this street, in this houseโฆ and a man has been sent for as a last resort. This man is The Exorcist. โ 12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to her last hope: Father Damien Karras, a troubled priest who is struggling with his own faith.
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Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1970s The 16th CenturyShurik Timofeev builds a working model of a time machine. By accident, Ivan Bunsha, an apartment complex manager, and George Miloslavsky, a petty burglar, are transferred to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible goes into the year 1973.
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Golgo 13
๐ฎ๐ท Iran The 1970sLive-action adaptation of the hit manga. Golgo 13, also known by the pseudonym Duke Togo, is a professional assassin. His age and birthplace are unknown and there is no consensus in the worldwide intelligence community as to his true identity. Most of his jobs are completed through the use of a customized, scoped M16 rifle. Golgo 13 is contracted to kill Boss Goa, the head of a worldwide crime syndicate responsible for drugs, weapons, and human trafficking.
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