211 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The Middle Ages
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Flying Swords Of Dragon Gate
๐จ๐ณ China The 15th CenturyJet Li and Tsui Hark are back together. โ Flying Swords of Dragon Gate picks up three years after the infamous Dragon Inn was burnt down in the desert when its innkeeper Jade vanished. A new gang of marauders had taken over - innkeepers by day and treasure hunters by night. The inn is the rumoured location of a lost city buried under the desert, and its hidden treasure would only be revealed by a gigantic storm every 60 years. The gang used the inn as a front to locate the lost treasure.
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Legendary Amazons
๐จ๐ณ China The 11th CenturyThe film is set in early 11th century China during the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty. The emperor neglects state affairs and indulges in personal pleasures, while the government sinks into corruption and war continues to rage on at the borders of the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty is being invaded by the armies of the rival state of Western Xia. Yang Zongbao is the last man standing in the Yang clan, a family of generals who have dedicated their lives to defending the Song Dynasty from foreign invaders. He apparently dies in battle tragically when the treacherous Imperial Tutor Pang refuses to send reinforcements to aid him. Yang Zongbao's widowed wife Mu Guiying leads the other widows of the Yang clan into battle to continue the legacy of their husbands.
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Blades Of Blood
๐ฐ๐ท South Korea The 16th CenturyDestiny is drenched in blood. โ In the 16th century in Chosun dynasty, HWANG Jung-hak and LEE Mong-hak create the โGrand Allianceโ with the united dream of a better world. While the new leader LEE dreams of eradicating this world of all its corruption and becoming king himself, the legendary blind swordsman HWANG who had once been his comrade goes after him with the loss of his good friend at the hands of LEE. Just as the king abandoned his kingdom from Japanese invasion, the two come face-to-face inside the empty palace and begin their last battle they were destined to fight.
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Dark Relic
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 11th Century1099 A.D.: A battle-weary knight leads his men home from the Holy Land after years of fighting. But the supposedly holy relic heโs carrying bears a terrible curseโฆ
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Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
๐จ๐ณ China The 7th CenturyThe Fate of an Empire Is in His Hands โ An exiled detective is recruited to solve a series of mysterious deaths that threaten to delay the inauguration of Empress Wu.A bizarre murder mystery brings together the most powerful woman in China, the soon-to-be-Empress Wu Zetian and a formerly exiled detective, Dee Renjie at the infamous Imperial Palace. Hoping he will solve the crime before her coronation, Wu appoints Dee Chief Judge of the Empire and implores him to combine his indisputable wisdom with his unparalleled martial arts skills to save the future of her dynasty. Director Tsui Hark (Seven Swords) teams with stunt director Sammo Hung in this heart-pounding, epic thriller inspired by the incredible true story of one of the Tang Dynasty's most celebrated officials.
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The Adventure Of The King
๐จ๐ณ China The 16th CenturyFrom the director of โ72 Tenants Of Prosperityโ comes a period comedy movie about an emperor (Richie Ren) who disguises himself as a commoner and later falls in love with Phoenix (Barbie Hsu), the lady boss of an inn.
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Yaroslav. A Thousand Years Ago
๐ท๐บ Russia The 11th CenturyYoung Russian Prince Yaroslav fights the robbers, tribes and the invaders. He is the first to unite Russian lands and to create the original Russian state.
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Flirting Scholar 2
๐จ๐ณ China The 15th CenturyTang Bohu's mother sends him to study at Qingfeng Monastery, but he can't bear the austere and monotonous life at the monastery. So, his three good friends secretly take Tang Bohu out for an excursion, where they run into Qian Qian/Qiu Xiang. Tang Bo Hu immediately falls for her, but later, she gets accused as being a spider spirit and is about to be burned to death by a priest...
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Aayirathil Oruvan
๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 13th CenturyAnitha, a government official, embarks on a journey to find Chandramouli, an archaeologist, who went to Vietnam to search for any existence of the prince of the Chola dynasty.
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Sauna
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland ๐ท๐บ Russia The 16th CenturyCleanse Your Sins โ It is 1595. Brutal wars have just ended in an uneasy peace between Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia. We focus on the spiritual defeats of two conquered Finnish brothers, one a hardened near-psychopathic war hero, the other a gentle scientist in an age with no use for such men. They find themselves in the swampy interior, demarcating the new border with a unit of sadistic Russians.
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Kanthaswamy
Ciudad de Mรฉxico ๐ฎ๐ณ India England The Middle AgesA CBI officer moonlights as a modern day Robin Hood in the guise of the masked Kanthaswamy, as he helps fight corruption and aid impoverished people.
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Agora
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 4th Century The 5th Century The Middle AgesAlexandria, Egypt. 391 A.D. The World Changed Forever. โ A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.
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Zen
๐จ๐ณ China Kyoto Prefecture The 13th CenturyIn the early 1200s, Dogen brought Chinese Zen philosophy to Japan, and established the Japanese Zen school of Buddhism. He taught that a person was capable of realizing Buddhahood within himself, by way of Zazen. Zazen is extended hours of sitting and meditating to achieve a state of โMuโ (nothingness, or empty existence).
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Mulan: Rise of a Warrior
๐จ๐ณ China The 6th CenturyWarrior. Princess. Legend. โ When barbarian hordes threaten her homeland, the brave and cunning Mulan disguises herself as a male soldier to swell the ranks in her aging father's stead. The warrior's remarkable courage drives her through powerful battle scenes and brutal wartime strategy. Mulan loses dear friends to the enemy's blade as she rises to become one of her country's most valuable leaders โ but can she win the war before her secret is exposed?
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Tsar
๐ท๐บ Russia The 16th CenturyIn 16th-century Russia in the grip of chaos, Ivan the Terrible strongly believes he is vested with a holy mission. Believing he can understand and interpret the signs, he sees the Last Judgment approaching. He establishes absolute power, cruelly destroying anyone who gets in his way. During this reign of terror, Philip, the superior of the monastery on the Solovetsky Islands, a great scholar and Ivan's close friend, dares to oppose the sovereign's mystical tyranny. What follows is a clash between two completely opposite visions of the world, smashing morality and justice, God and men. A grand-scale film with excellent leading roles by Mamonov and Yankovsky. An allegory of Stalinist Russia
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Mai Mai Miracle
Yamaguchi Prefecture The 1950s The 10th CenturyIn 1955 in western Japan, nine-year-old Shinko knows she comes from a family that dates back to over a thousand years. This long genealogy and stories about it feed her daydreams: she invents an imaginary friendship with a young girl in the Japan of a thousand years ago. One day, Kiiko, a timid child from Tokyo, is transferred into Shinko's class at school. Struggling to fit in, she finds a friend in Shinko. They set off together on a magical adventure into a story from ancient history.Adapted from the Takagi Nobuko novel Mai Mai Shinko โ winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize โ, this animated feature film portrays the relationship of two children linked not only by friendship, but also by that power that transcends eras: imagination. And perhaps it might become reality?
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Journey to Mecca
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt ๐ธ๐ฆ Saudi Arabia ๐ธ๐พ Syria The 14th CenturyIn the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta โ The 20 year old Muslim religious law student Ibn Battuta (1304โ1368), whose full name was Abu Abdullah Muhammed Ibn Abdullah Al Lawati Al Tanji Ibn Battuta, set out from Tangier, a city in northern Morocco, in 1325, on a pilgrimage to Mecca, some 3,000 miles (over 4,800 km) to the East. The journey took him 18 months to complete and along the way he met with misfortune and adversity, including attack by bandits, rescue by Bedouins, fierce sand storms and dehydration.
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The Forbidden Kingdom
Massachusetts ๐จ๐ณ China The 7th CenturyThe battle for eternity is the fantasy of a lifetime. โ An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, the teenager unexpectedly finds himself travelling back to ancient China to join a crew of warriors from martial arts lore on a dangerous quest to free the imprisoned Monkey King.
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Arn: The Kingdom at Road's End
๐ธ๐ช Sweden ๐ธ๐พ Syria The 13th Century The 12th CenturyArn has served his term in the Holy land and returns home to be reunited with his beloved Cecilia. When he returns home, he discovers that political forces tries to separate him and Cecilia - but thanks to queen Blanka they can finally get married. Arn knows that war is looming and with his martial knowledge he starts to build an army at his new home at Forsvik.
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Dasavatharam
Nevada ๐ฎ๐ณ India Tokyo Prefecture The 12th CenturyBio-technologist Govind K Somaiyya sets about on a precarious journey to India to retrieve a vial containing a deadly virus and prevent it from reaching the wrong hands of an ex-CIA agent and deadly assassins.
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A Frozen Flower
๐ฐ๐ท South Korea The 14th CenturyFor His Last Love, Fate Led Him To Betray His First Love. โ A historical drama set in the Koryo dynasty and focused on the relationship between a king and his bodyguard. Under the dominance of Yuan Dynasty China, the king of Goryeo Dynasty Korea is pressured to produce a successor to the throne. Unable to make love to his queen because he is in love with his bodyguard, Hong Lim, the king asks the two of them to sleep together instead. This sexual contact formulates a forbidden love between Hong Lim and the Queen.
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Milarepa
Tibet The 12th Century The 11th CenturyMilarepa depicts the humble beginnings of the man who was to become Tibet's greatest saint. A true story based on centuries-old oral traditions, a youthful Milarepa is propelled into a world of sorrow and betrayal after his father's sudden death. Destitute and hopeless, he sets out to learn black magic - and exact revenge on his enemies - encountering magicians, demons, an enigmatic teacher and unexpected mystical power along the way. But it is in confrontation with the consequences of his anger that he learns the most. Photographed in the stunning Lahaul-Spiti region of Northern India, Milarepa offers a provocative parallel to the cycle of violence and retribution consuming today's world.
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A Viking Saga: Son of Thor
๐ท๐บ Russia The Middle AgesDrama set in the viking age, Helgi witnesses the destruction of his village and narrowly escapes to his uncle Rurik who raises him like his son. Many years later he meets the people responsible for his parents death and someone he never expected to see again.
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Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
๐ฒ๐ณ Mongolia The 13th Century The 12th CenturyGreatness comes to those who take it. โ The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan, a slave who went on to conquer half the world in the 11th century.
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Arn: The Knight Templar
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 12th CenturyA Knight in the Holy Land. A Woman in the Frozen North. A War that Kept Them Apart. โ Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.
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