535 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 21st Century
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Unknown Pleasures
Shanxi Province The 2000sThree disaffected youths live in Datong in 2001, part of the new "Birth Control" generation. Fed on a steady diet of popular culture, both Western and Chinese, the characters of Unknown Pleasures represent a new breed in the People's Republic of China, one detached from reality through the screen of media and the internet.
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War
๐ท๐บ Russia The 2000sDuring the bloody war in Chechnya, a British couple and two Russian soldiers are taken hostage by Chechen rebels. Two of the hostages are then released to bring the money for the British woman who is forced to wait for the ransom.
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Spirited Away
๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 2000sA young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ท๐บ Russia The 2000sBorn into Wealth. Groomed by the Elite. Trained for Combat. โ English aristocrat Lara Croft is skilled in hand-to-hand combat and in the middle of a battle with a secret society. The shapely archaeologist moonlights as a tomb raider to recover lost antiquities and meets her match in the evil Powell, who's in search of a powerful relic.
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Ichi the Killer
๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 2000sLove really hurts โ As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
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Millennium Mambo
๐น๐ผ Taiwan The 2010sTaipei. A voice off-camera looks back ten years to 2000, when Vicky was in an on-again off-again relationship with Hao-Hao...
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Shaolin Soccer
Shanghai The 2000sGet ready to kick some grass! โ A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage.
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Freddy Got Fingered
California Oregon ๐ต๐ฐ Pakistan The 2000sThis time you can't change the channel. โ An unemployed cartoonist moves back in with his parents and younger brother Freddy. When his parents demand he leave, he begins to spread rumors that his father is sexually abusing Freddy.
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Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
Yamanashi Prefecture Shizuoka Prefecture Niigata Prefecture Kanagawa Prefecture Kagoshima Prefecture Pacific Ocean The 2000s The 1950sThe God of Destruction Godzilla lands in Japan! โ Godzilla has become a distant memory for Japan when the destruction of a US submarine raises alarms for Admiral Tachibana. His estranged daughter Yuri investigates the legend of the guardian monsters, who must rise to protect Japan against the vengeful spirits within Godzilla that seek to destroy both the nation and its people for the suffering they inflicted in the Pacific conflict.
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Road to Redemption
๐จ๐ณ China The 2000sA couple come into contact with stolen mob money, gamble it away, and end up on the run from gangsters
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I Love Beijing
Beijing The 2000sFilmmaker Ning Ying returns to her favorite theme โ the gradual decay of traditional Chinese values and culture at the dawn of the 21st century โ in this low-key drama. Desi (Yu Lei) is a cab driver who has recently broken up with his wife. Lonely, Desi is searching for a new love, and as he drifts through Beijing in search of fares and a girlfriend, he sees a city that is increasingly bending to the influence of the West, with traditional pastimes and customs forced to make way for the onslaught of the free-market economy. Xia Ri Nuan Yangyang has been screened on the international film festival circuit in two different versions; the cut shown at the 2001 Rotterdam Film Festival ran 99 minutes, while the film was only 79 minutes when it appeared at the Berlin Film Festival that same year.
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Bungee Jumping of Their Own
๐ฐ๐ท South Korea ๐ณ๐ฟ New Zealand The 1980s The 2000sA male teacher starts to suspect that one of his male students is the reincarnation of his first love.
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Body
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 2020sSerious social sci-fi film โ A jobless married man falls for a multinational company's offer to provide his family a life of luxury for the rest of their lives in exchange for body organs
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Battle Royale
๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 2000sCould you kill your best friend? โ In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
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Suzhou River
Shanghai The 2000sA tragic love story set in contemporary Shanghai. The film stars Zhou Xun in a dual role as two different women and Jia Hongsheng as a man obsessed with finding a woman from his past.
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Vertical Limit
๐ต๐ฐ Pakistan Utah The 2000sThe Mountain Will Decide. โ Trapped near the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Annie Garrett radios to base camp for help. Brother Peter hears Annie's message and assembles a team to save her and her group before they succumb to K2's unforgiving elements. But, as Annie lays injured in an icy cavern, the rescuers face several terrifying events that could end the rescue attempt -- and their lives.
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The Circle
๐ฎ๐ท Iran The 2000sVarious women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.
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Digimon: The Movie
New York Colorado ๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 1990s The 2000sNew Monsters. New Battles. Now on the Big Screen. โ The first story focused on Tai and Kari Kamiya four years before their adventure in the Digital World. It shows their first encounter with Digimon and what happened to them (as well as the other children). Tai and Kari wake one morning to find a Digi-Egg that came out of their computer the night before and the egg soon hatches, revealing a Botamon. The Digimon then evolves into Koromon and then Agumon (not the same one that became friends with Tai in the series, and yet, somehow, both Koromon and Kari remember each other), who then goes out and unintentionally destroys a good part of the neighborhood with Kari riding on his back. A second Digi-Egg appears in the sky to reveal an evil digimon, Parrotmon. Agumon then Digivolves to Greymon but isn't strong enough to beat Parrotmon and is knocked out. Tai grabs Kari's whistle and wakes up Greymon, who defeats Parrotmon and disappears with him.
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Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
Yamanashi Prefecture Tokyo Prefecture Osaka Prefecture Ibaraki Prefecture Pacific Ocean The 1990s The 1960s The 1950s The 2000sGodzilla disappears. โ In an alternate timeline the original Godzilla is never defeated and repeatedly reemerges to feed on Japan's energy sources. A new inter-dimensional weapon called the Dimension Tide is created with the intent of eliminating Godzilla. However, the new weapon might also serve as a gateway to something far more sinister.
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Ditto
๐ฐ๐ท South Korea The 1970s The 2000sIn this endearing supernatural love story spanning two decades, a university student finds himself communicating with a female classmate from the same school through an antique ham radio...
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Entrapment
๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia New York Scotland England The 1990s The 2000sThe trap is set. โ Two thieves, who travel in elegant circles, try to outsmart each other and, in the process, end up falling in love.
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Godzilla 2000: Millennium
Tokyo Prefecture Ibaraki Prefecture Hokkaido Prefecture Pacific Ocean The 2000sWitness! A new era of Godzilla! โ An independent group of researchers called the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN) actively track Godzilla as he makes landfall in Nemuro. Matters are further complicated when a giant meteor is discovered in the Ibaragi Prefecture. The mysterious rock begins to levitate as it's true intentions for the world and Godzilla are revealed.
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The Mirror
Shanghai ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong ๐น๐ผ Taiwan ๐ธ๐ฌ Singapore The 1980s The 1990s The 1920s The 2000sThe grandson of a rich widow returns to Hong Kong with his girlfriend. They are charmed by an antique mirror at the grandmother's home. The mirror used to belonged to a famous courtesan in ...
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Crackers
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 2000sJust your average bunch of biscuits! โ Larceny, adultery, sabotage and treachery. Yes, just your typical Christmas with the Dredge family! Twelve-year-old Joey Dredge is in trouble again. Expelled for jumping off the school roof, he's haunted by his father's death and hates his mother's new boyfriend and his bullying son. Compounding his misery is the knowledge he has to spend Christmas with them at the family beach house. Things look grim until the unexpected arrival of great-grandfather Albert, fresh from a stint in prison. Forced to share the back shed with this swearing, farting and devious octogenarian, Joey's life changes. Between barbecuing the family dog, performing a self-burial and causing his intended step-father to consume a startling amount of hash, Joey learns a few life lessons from Albert, who despite his many vices may give Joey the strength to accept the past and embrace the future.
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Johnny Mnemonic
Beijing New Jersey The 2020sThe hottest data on earth. In the coolest head in town. โ In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks. On one delivery run, he accepts a package that not only exceeds the implant's safety limitsโand will kill him if the data is not removed in timeโbut also contains information far more important and valuable than he had ever imagined. On a race against time, he must avoid the assassins sent to kill him and remove the data before it, too, ends his life.
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