248 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 2010s
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Honnouji Hotel
๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 16th Century The 2010sIn Kyoto, Mayuko (Haruka Ayase) stands at a crossroad in her life. She's thinking about marriage with her boyfriend Kyoichi (Hiroyuki Hirayama). By an accidental opportunity, Mayuko stays at Honnouji Hotel. There, she meets historical figure Nobunaga Oda (Shinichi Tsutsumi) who is attempting to unify Japan.
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Amiko
Nagano Prefecture The 2010sAmiko, a high school girl, adores Aomi to the point of nearly worshipping him. But one day, he runs away from home. Amiko's sometimes cynical, sometimes self-deprecating inner monologue goes off like vibrant stand-up comedy.
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Of Fathers and Sons
๐ธ๐พ Syria The 2010sTalal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His camera focuses on Osama and his younger brother Ayman, providing an extremely rare insight into what it means to grow up in an Islamic Caliphate.
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Malli Raava
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1990s The 2010sKarthik and Anjali are childhood sweethearts who fell in love when they're fourteen. Despite having immense love for each other, circumstances forced them apart many a time. Will things change when they grow older? Will their love story finally have a happy ending?
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One Cut of the Dead
๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 2010sDonโt Stop Shooting! โ "Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low-budget zombie movie in an abandoned Japanese World War II facility, when they are attacked by real zombies." Or, that's what it says on the tin, but this is the story of how it really happened...
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Independence Day: Resurgence
Nevada Colorado Virginia District of Columbia Texas England The Moon ๐ธ๐ฌ Singapore Africa - General Atlantic Ocean The 2010s The 2050sWe had twenty years to prepare. So did they. โ We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliensโ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.
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Inferno
๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐น๐ท Turkey The 2010sHis greatest challenge. Humanity's last hope. โ After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.
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London Has Fallen
England New York Nevada District of Columbia ๐ต๐ฐ Pakistan ๐พ๐ช Yemen Tokyo Prefecture ๐ต๐ญ Philippines The 2010sThe world's leaders have assembled. So have their enemies. โ In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
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A Hologram for the King
๐ธ๐ฆ Saudi Arabia The 2010sHow far will you go? To find yourself. โ Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
California Florida Wales England Tokyo Prefecture The 2000s The 2010s The 1940sStay peculiar โ A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.
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Doctor Strange
New York England ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong The 2010sOpen your mind. Change your reality. โ After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.
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Now You See Me 2
๐จ๐ณ China England New York New Jersey ๐ฒ๐ด Macao Tokyo Prefecture New South Wales The 2010s The 1980sYou haven't seen anything yet. โ One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the publicโs adulation with their mind-bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen resurface only to find themselves face to face with a new enemy who enlists them to pull off their most dangerous heist yet.
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Snowden
Virginia Maryland Georgia Hawaii ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong ๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 2000s The 2010sThe only safe place is on the run. โ CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
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Queen of Katwe
๐ท๐บ Russia ๐บ๐ฌ Uganda The 2000s The 2010sA young girl overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a Chess master.
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The Forest
Yamanashi Prefecture The 2010sEveryone comes here looking for a way out โ Set in the Aokigahara Forest, a real-life place in Japan where people go to end their lives. Against this backdrop, a young American woman comes in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared.
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Lion
๐ฎ๐ณ India Victoria Tasmania The 1980s The 2000s The 2010sThe search begins โ A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
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Army of One
๐ต๐ฐ Pakistan The 2010sOne Man's Wildly True Quest To Capture Osama Bin Laden โ Gary Faulkner is an ex-con, unemployed handyman, and modern day Don Quixote who receives a vision from God telling him to capture Osama Bin Laden. Armed with only a single sword purchased from a home-shopping network, Gary travels to Pakistan to complete his mission. While on his quest, Gary encounters old friends back home in Colorado, the new friends he makes in Pakistan, the enemies he makes at the CIA - and even God and Osama themselves.
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Jeruzalem
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1970s The 2010sOn Judgement Day, Hell Shall Inherit The Earth. โ When a couple of American young adults fly to Israel to visit the city of Jerusalem, a biblical nightmare falls upon the city
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No Land's Song
๐ฎ๐ท Iran The 2010sIn Iran, since the 1979 Islamic revolution, women are no longer allowed to sing in public as soloists - at least in front of men. Defying censorship and taboos, the young composer Sara Najafi is determined to organize an official concert for solo female singers. In order to support their fight, Sara and her friends invite three French female singers, Elise Caron, Jeanne Cherhal and Emel Mathlouthi, to join them in Tehran and collaborate on their musical project, re-opening a musical bridge between Europe and Iran. Are they going to succeed and finally be gathered in Tehran, sing together, on stage and without restrictions, and to open a door towards a new freedom of women in Iran ?
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Boyka: Undisputed IV
๐ท๐บ Russia ๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine The 2010sBoyka is back! โ In the fourth installment of the fighting franchise, Boyka is shooting for the big leagues when an accidental death in the ring makes him question everything he stands for. When he finds out the wife of the man he accidentally killed is in trouble, Boyka offers to fight in a series of impossible battles to free her from a life of servitude
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Rage
Tokyo Prefecture Okinawa Prefecture The 2010sA man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word โikariโ (โrageโ) written with their blood. The killer undergoes plastic surgery and flees. At three different locations in Japan, a male stranger appears. People suspect that the stranger might be the murderer.
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Under the Sun
๐ฐ๐ต North Korea (DPRK) The 2010sOver the course of one year, this film follows the life of an ordinary Pyongyang family whose daughter was chosen to take part in Day of the Shining Star (Kim Jong-il's birthday) celebration. While North Korean government wanted a propaganda film, the director kept on filming between the scripted scenes. The ritualized explosions of color and joy contrast sharply with pale everyday reality, which is not particularly terrible, but rather quite surreal.
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Jim: The James Foley Story
๐ธ๐พ Syria ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฑ๐พ Libya The 2010s The 2000s The 1990sIn August, 2014, a video of the public execution of American photojournalist James Foley rippled across the globe. Foley wore an orange jumpsuit as he knelt beside an ISIS militant dressed in black. That image challenged the world to deal with a new face of terror. And it tested one American family. Seen through the lens of filmmaker Brian Oakes, Foleyโs close childhood friend, Jim takes us from small-town New England to the adrenaline-fueled front lines of Libya and Syria, where Foley pushed the limits of danger to report on the plight of civilians impacted by war.
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We Are X
๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 1980s The 1990s The 2010sThe music never had to be explained. โ As glam rock's most flamboyant survivors, X Japan ignited a musical revolution in Japan during the late '80s with their melodic metal. Twenty years after their tragic dissolution, X Japanโs leader, Yoshiki, battles with physical and spiritual demons alongside prejudices of the West to bring their music to the world.
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A Silent Voice: The Movie
Gifu Prefecture The 2000s The 2010sSometimes the answer is as simple as learning to listen. โ Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?
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