Asian Movies : History

During Second Manchu invasion of Korea, one village is attacked by Manchurian soldiers. Manchurian kidnap Ja-in on her wedding day with her childhood sweetheart Seo-Goon... See full summary >> Director: Han-min Kim Writer: Han-min Kim (scre...

Set right before the fall of Thailand's old capital, Ayuttaya, Bang Rajan draws on the legend of a village of fighters who bravely fended off the Burmese armies. With no support from the Royal army, the villagers drives the invading Burmese away many times...

A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party....

A reserved salaryman cracks one day after being left by his wife and fired from his job. He ends up teaming up with a street thug on a rampage throughout Seoul....

The story is a fictional account of an assassination attempt on revered Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen and the efforts of kung fu masters who protected him before the Chinese Revolution overthrew the Qing Dynasty in 1911. Sun Yat-sen is popularly referred to as the Father of Modern China who pla...

In the early third century, the land of Wu is invaded by the warlord Cao Cao and his million soldiers. The ruler of Wu, Sun Quan, calls on the rival warlord Liu Bei for help, but their two armies are still badly outnumbered. However, the Wu strategist Zhou Yu sees that Cao Cao's army is unused to ba...

City of Life and Death takes place in 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army has just captured the then-capital of the Republic of China, Nanjing. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a period of several weeks wherein t...

What kind of scenes in a horror film scares you the most? When a ghost appears totally unexpectedly? When the main character does not see the ghost sneaking up behind him? When at the very end you find out that the main character was actually a ghost all along? But none of this compares to the feeli...

Set against the backdrop of the Japanese occupation of Taiwan during WWII, and narrated by a scarecrow, Wang T'ung's STRAWMAN is the story of the Chan brothers, Ah-Fong and Widemouth, and their struggle to support their family. The war is going badly for the Japanese, but they are relentless in thei...

The film is about the 1943 battle of Changde, a city in central China's Hunan province. A Chinese division of about 8,000 soldiers defended the city from the attack of 30,000 Japanese invaders....