251 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 1990s
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Armageddon
Shanghai Florida New York Texas District of Columbia 🇫🇷 France 🇮🇳 India 🇹🇷 Turkey The 1990sThe Earth's Darkest Day Will Be Man's Finest Hour — When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter, until the mission proves otherwise.
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Rush Hour
California 🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1990sThe Fastest Hands in the East Meet the Biggest Mouth in the West. — When Hong Kong Inspector Lee is summoned to Los Angeles to investigate a kidnapping, the FBI doesn't want any outside help and assigns cocky LAPD Detective James Carter to distract Lee from the case. Not content to watch the action from the sidelines, Lee and Carter form an unlikely partnership and investigate the case themselves.
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The Red Violin
Quebec England 🇦🇹 Austria 🇮🇹 Italy Shanghai The 1990s The 1960s The 1890s The 18th Century The 17th CenturySpans 300 years in the life of one famed musical instrument that winds up in present-day Montreal on the auction block. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin derives its unusual color from the human blood mixed into the finish. With this legacy, the violin travels to Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake.
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Everest
🇳🇵 Nepal Tibet The 1990sTowering above everything you have seen before. — An international team of climbers ascends Mt. Everest in the spring of 1996. The film depicts their lengthy preparations for the climb, their trek to the summit, and their successful return to Base Camp. It also shows many of the challenges the group faced, including avalanches, lack of oxygen, treacherous ice walls, and a deadly blizzard.
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Rebirth of Mothra III
Yamanashi Prefecture Tokyo Prefecture Osaka Prefecture Kyoto Prefecture Aichi Prefecture The 1990sThe strongest enemy, the final transformation. — To save the world, Mothra goes back in time in an attempt to defeat a younger King Ghidorah.
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Blade
California 🇷🇺 Russia The 1990s The 1960sPart Man. Part Vampire. All Hero. — The Daywalker known as "Blade" - a half-vampire, half-mortal man - becomes the protector of humanity against an underground army of vampires.
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Knock Off
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1990sThere is no substitute. — Marcus Ray, a sales representative for "V SIX" jeans, and his partner, Tommy Hendricks, are about to be busted for selling "knock off" jeans. Their American contact, Karan Leigh, who by the way is not only their employer but a CIA agent sent to find the mole in their operation, is threatening them with a jail term if they do not prove their innocence.
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The Minion
New York 🇮🇱 Israel The 1990sWhen the Millenium ends... Armageddon begins! — New York, Christmas Eve, 1999 - at the dawn of the new millennium - a subway construction crew unearths an eight hundred year old Celtic skeleton and a mysterious key. Archeologist Karen Goodleaf is called in to determine the meaning of the discovery. News of the discovery reaches a Middle East monastery where the warrior monks knowns as the Knights Templer - an ancient sect entrusted with protecting holy relics - choose their best pupil, Lukas (Dolph Lundgren) to face the diabolical threat. As Lukas races to New York, an evil Minion seizes Karen and uses its body like a parasite and host. Lukas arrives just in time to rescue Karen and despatch the Minion. The Minion takes hold of another host - revealing that it is immortal. As it cuts a path of destruction through the city, decimating a parking garage and leaving a trail of death, Karen realizes that the Minion can't be killed - but only delayed from finding a new host.
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Pickpocket
Shanxi Province The 1990sA small town pickpocket whose friends have moved on to higher trades finds himself bitter and unable to adapt.
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Tale of the Mummy
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1940s The 1990sThe curse is legend. The terror is real. — Centuries ago, under the sands of ancient Egypt, a Prince was buried and his tomb eternally cursed so that no man would ever again suffer from his evil ways. But hundreds of years later on a greedy search for treasure, a group of archaeologists break the cursed seal of the tomb. Every man vanishes without a trace, leaving behind only a log book, and a deadly warning of the legend of the bloodthirsty Talos.
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Provocateur
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1990sSometimes the enemy is closer than you think... — In 1994 South Korea, a female North Korean spy integrates herself as a housekeeper for U.S. military officer to steal classified documents, but soon worries about her cover when she falls for the teenage son of the officer.
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Contact
Florida New Mexico District of Columbia Wisconsin 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico Hokkaido Prefecture The 1990sIf it's just us, it seems like an awful waste of space. — Contact is a science fiction film about an encounter with alien intelligence. Based on the novel by Carl Sagan the film starred Jodie Foster as the one chosen scientist who must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
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Tomorrow Never Dies
England 🇩🇪 Germany Okinawa Prefecture 🇷🇺 Russia 🇻🇳 Vietnam 🇨🇳 China The 1990sYesterday is a memory. Today is history. Tomorrow is in the hands of one man. — A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.
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The Jackal
Quebec 🇫🇮 Finland 🇷🇺 Russia District of Columbia The 1990sHow do you stop an assassin who has no identity? — Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI director, a Russian MVK Major, and a jailed IRA terrorist who can recognize him.
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The Peacemaker
New York 🇦🇹 Austria 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇷🇸 Serbia 🇷🇺 Russia The 1990sHow do you get the world's attention? — When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, a nuclear specialist discovers the accident is really part of a plot to cover up the theft of the weapons. Assigned to help her recover the missing bombs is a crack Special Forces Colonel.
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Beverly Hills Ninja
California 🇯🇵 Japan The 1990sHe puts the Mortal back in Kombat. — Haru, an orphaned American who washes ashore in Japan and is mistaken for the great White Ninja of legend. Raised among the finest Ninjas, Haru grows strong and big - very big. With the grace of all Three Stooges rolled into one body, Haru is an embarrassment to his clan. But when a beautiful blonde pleads for his help, Haru is given one dangerous, disastrously funny chance to prove himself.
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Air Force One
🇩🇪 Germany 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan 🇷🇺 Russia District of Columbia The 1990sFive miles up, The President of the United States is waging war on terrorism. Face to face. — Russian terrorists conspire to hijack the aircraft with the president and his family on board. The commander in chief finds himself facing an impossible predicament: give in to the terrorists and sacrifice his family, or risk everything to uphold his principles - and the integrity of the nation.
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The Saint
England 🇷🇺 Russia The 1990sNever reveal your name. Never turn your back. Never surrender your heart. — Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.
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Brother
🇷🇺 Russia The 1990sDanila goes to his successful brother, Victor, in Petersburg to start a new life. Unknown to Danila, Victor is an contract killer, but is in hiding after asking for too much money to assassinate a Chechen mob boss. To avoid exposure, Victor convinces Danila to kill him instead.
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Chinese Box
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1990sThe story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
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Into Thin Air: Death on Everest
Tibet The 1990sAn adaptation of Jon Krakauer's best selling book, "Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster". This movie attempts to re-create the disastrous events that took place during the Mount Everest climb on May 10, 1996. It also follows Jon Krakauer throughout the movie, and portrays what he was going through while climbing this mountain.
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Rebirth of Mothra II
Okinawa Prefecture The 1990sA transforming miracle! — Mothra's twin nymphs and children from the city find a lost city, as well as a giant monster that is attracted to environmental calamities.
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Keep Cool
Beijing The 1990sChina, the 1990s. A young bookseller is in love with a woman. The woman is now with another guy, a rich man. The rich man sends his people to beat the bookseller. In the fight, the laptop computer from a man looking at the scene gets broken. Who will pay for the computer? The bookseller wants revenge. Will it be useful? The bookseller and the laptop owner are from different ages and classes. They are two different points of view, two different Chinas. How will they fight for justice?
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The Thief
🇷🇺 Russia The 1990s The 1950sHe'll steal your heart! — Katya and her 6-year-old son Sanya, who, in 1952, meet a veteran Soviet officer named Tolyan. Katya falls in love with Tolyan, who turns out to be a small time criminal, but who also becomes a father figure to Sanya ...
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Goodbye America
🇵🇭 Philippines The 1990sFor love, For honour, For country, There is Love — It is November 1992 and the US Navy is preparing to surrender its largest overseas facility at Subic Bay, Philippines, after almost a century. For both countries, and for the navy, it is a time of change. Violence erupts shortly after the U.S. Navy announces plans to withdraw from a Philippine base in 1992.
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