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Netflix
79
8.0
/241481/
81
/8107/
77
/3976/
4.0
/114213/
86
/29/
93
/2841/
59
/9/
cc age 13+

Ip Man (2008)
A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun. The film focuses on events surrounding Ip that took place in the city of Foshan between the 1930s to 1940s during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Directed by Wilson Yip, the film stars Donnie Yen in the lead role, and features fight choreography by Sammo Hung.
poster
Kanopy
75
74
7.3
/13363/
77
/351/
70
/191/
3.5
/4992/
79
/14/
86
/394/
cc age 8+

Father Goose (1964)
During World War II, South Sea beachcomber Walter Eckland is persuaded to spy on planes passing over his island. He gets more than he bargained for as schoolteacher Catherine Frenau arrives on the run from the Japanese with her pupils in tow!
poster
Netflix
71
69
7.6
/25280/
72
/299/
67
/100/
3.5
/6753/
67
/15/
78
/61/

Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015)
Byomkesh, fresh out of college, agrees to investigate the disappearance of Bhuvan, a chemist. Assisted by Bhuvan's son Ajit, Byomkesh links the case to a larger conspiracy that will unsettle Calcutta.
poster
Netflix
72
68
6.6
/6739/
69
/763/
70
/189/
3.4
/11431/
80
/10/
79
/25/
cc age 16+

Uprising (2024)
In the Joseon Dynasty, two friends who grew up together — one the master and one the servant — reunite post-war as enemies on opposing sides.
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Amazon Prime Video
62
44
5.4
/979/
56
/61/
57
/28/
3.1
/4429/
86
/37/
48
/12/
73
/8/
cc age 16+

In My Mother's Skin (2023)
Stranded in the Philippines during World War II, a young girl finds that her duty to protect her dying mother is complicated by her misplaced trust in a beguiling, flesh-eating fairy.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
69
40
7.2
/2107/
68
/35/
63
/32/
3.4
/549/
77
/46/

A Town Like Alice (1956)
In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.
poster
64
26
6.6
/1197/
64
/23/
63
/22/
3.3
/318/
62
/31/

The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)
As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Based on a true story of how Dr. Wassell saved a dozen or so wounded sailors who were left behind when able bodied men were evacuated to Australia.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
59
20
5.7
/818/
62
/56/
62
/49/
3.2
/319/
53
/3/

The Chef, The Actor, The Scoundrel (2013)
World War II: a cholera epidemic ravages the streets of Beijing. A crack team of Chinese intelligence agents kidnap a Japanese general and biochemist who may hold the antidote.
poster
65
19
6.8
/403/
65
/10/
61
/14/
3.6
/1056/

Beach of the War Gods (1973)
In the waning days of the Ming dynasty, Japanese marauders raid villages on the Chinese coast. A wandering swordsman single-handedly dispatches a group of the foreign thugs, and agrees to help defend the town. He assembles a core team of highly skilled warriors, and together they train the townsfolk to stand up to the foreign pirates, using strategy and skill. When the army launches an all-out assault on the town, a ferocious battle rages, leading to final conflict on the Beach of the War Gods.
poster
50
9
6.2
/606/
35
/6/
49
/11/
57
/5/

In a Savage Land (1999)
Two anthropologists married to each other go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research in pre-World War II. Eventually the war breaks out and many lives are disrupted and complicated.
poster
55
?
7.1
/245/
35
/2/
62
/4/

The Longest Hundred Miles (1967)
During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, an assorted group of refugees, including an American soldier, an Army nurse, a priest and a group of local children, try to make their getaway aboard a rattletrap, creaky bus.
poster
53
?
5.8
/172/
60
/3/
41
/9/

1895 in Formosa (2008)
"1895" tells the story of the resistance against the Japanese invasion in 1895.
poster
?
8.1
/38/
10
/1/
80
/1/

Stardoom (1971)
A stage mother drives her younger son to his ‘stardoom’ to make up for her downward slide from her bourgeois origins.
poster
40
?
5.2
/115/
25
/2/
45
/3/

Ghost of the China Sea (1958)
A ragtag group of survivors escape a Filipino sugar plantation overrun by Japanese soldiers during World War II, finding a small boat along the way.
poster
Kanopy
79
?
7.7
/117/
81
/6/
80
/4/

The Chinese Exclusion Act (2017)
A sweeping chronicle of the entire exclusion era - the latter part of the 1800s, when anti-Chinese agitation led to federal laws targeting Chinese abroad and those already in the country. Go far beyond the legislation with the survival and growth of Chinese American communities in the face of prejudice and outright violence, the “paper” sons and daughters who emigrated despite the seemingly impassable barriers, and the legal challenges that produced some of the most momentous decisions in Supreme Court history.
poster
?
7.1
/28/
72
/4/
70
/1/

Shanghai 1937: Where World War II Began (2018)
The Battle of Shanghai has been described as the last battle of World War I, and the first battle of World War II. It was a warning to the world, a warning that was ignored. And it was the place where the destiny of modern China was set in motion. Based on the book “Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze” by Danish author Peter Harmsen, this film introduces key figures in the conflict, chronicles how the battle unfolded over the course of three months, and explores the aftermath and years of war that followed.
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The Roku Channel
49
?
5.0
/137/
50
/1/
48
/4/

A Place In Hell (1969)
A drunken war correspondent, a prostitute and happy-go-lucky Italian GI barely escape a bombing of Manila, only to realize that the island they land on has been captured by the Japanese. They hook up with a band of Allied survivors and attempt to escape.
poster
47
?
5.2
/288/
45
/4/
50
/6/
40
/5/
50
/3/

Bombs Over Burma (1942)
The film tells the story of Chinese guerrillas fighting for the Allied cause in Burma during Early in World War II, Chungking schoolteacher Lin Yang is recruited to help with the dangerous mission of protecting the Allied supply line from Burma into China. In spite of the danger involved, her determination to help is strengthened when one of her young students is killed in a Japanese air raid. Some time later, she is part of a group of Allied representatives departing from Lashio, on a bus traveling the Burma Road back to China. A bridge outage forces them to spend the night in a monastery along the way, and during the night they watch in horror as a supply convoy of trucks is bombed by Japanese planes. The timing and accuracy of the raid brings them to realize that either one of their group, or perhaps the priest in the monastery, is really an enemy agent


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