Asian Movies: Reviews and Watch Guides
Reviews and recommendations for Korean, Chinese and Japanese movies, from action and crime to romance, with picks on Amasian TV.
From Street Fights to Wuxia: 5 Chinese Martial Arts Movies to Watch
Chinese martial arts cinema can move between grounded street fighting, elaborate wuxia fantasy, historical drama, and stories about the rules…
Detective Dee: The Chinese Mystery Movies Where History Meets Fantasy
What do you get when a historical detective story meets wuxia action, imperial intrigue, and giant sea monsters? The Detective…
4 Japanese Samurai Movies That Take the Genre in Different Directions
The samurai movie has never been limited to one kind of story. It can be a brutal war film, a…
Ransomed: The Korean Action Thriller Inspired by a Real 1986 Kidnapping
Some Korean action movies are built around elaborate fictional conspiracies. Ransomed starts with something much closer to history: the 1986…
What Makes The Moon One of Korea’s Most Ambitious Sci-Fi Films
What happens when a country’s second attempt to send astronauts to the Moon goes wrong? That is the setup for…
Swing Kids Turns a Korean War POW Camp Into an Unlikely Dance Floor
Set in 1951, during the Korean War, Swing Kids follows Ro Ki-soo (Doh Kyung-soo), a North Korean prisoner at the…
The Pirates: Korea’s Wild Treasure Hunt on the High Seas
Forget buried treasure. In The Pirates, the treasure is inside a whale. What happens when a priceless state seal disappears…
Harbin: The Korean Historical Thriller About a Daring Mission for Independence
History can make for some of the most gripping thrillers, especially when the outcome is already known but the journey…
Hi-Five: Five Strangers, Five Superpowers, and One Very Unlikely Team
What if your superpower came from an organ transplant? That’s the bizarre question at the center of Hi-Five, a Korean…
Escape: A Korean Thriller About One Man’s Fight for Freedom
What would you risk for the chance to decide your own future? That’s the question at the center of Escape,…