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1. Ip Man (2008)

R | 106 min | Action, Biography, Drama

During the Japanese invasion of China, a wealthy martial artist is forced to leave his home when his city is occupied. With little means of providing for themselves, Ip Man and the remaining members of the city must find a way to survive.

Director: Wilson Yip | Stars: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam, Siu-Wong Fan, Ka-Tung Lam

Votes: 234,001

2. Man Behind the Sun (1988)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, History, Horror

Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to unit 731, where they're horribly tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons.

Director: Tun-Fei Mou | Stars: Gang Wang, Dai Yao Wu, Runshen Wang, Zhe Quan

Votes: 7,317

3. Crying Freeman (1995)

102 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A woman sees an assassin outside San Francisco killing yakuza men and later in Vancouver. She's been told that he leaves no witness. Will she be his next victim or...?

Director: Christophe Gans | Stars: Julie Condra, Kevan Ohtsji, Mark Dacascos, Debbie Podowski

Votes: 13,649

4. Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen (2010)

R | 106 min | Action, Drama, History

The year is 1917 and Chen Zhen, believed to be dead, returns to Shanghai under a false name. He joins a mob boss for info on the Japanese incl. a long kill list and at night fights the Japanese masked.

Director: Andrew Lau | Stars: Donnie Yen, Alex Ahlstrom, Shu Qi, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong

Votes: 11,090 | Gross: $0.05M

5. Maruta 2: Laboratory of the Devil (1992)

96 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

In the spring of 1935, Japan established a secret base, Unit 731 in Manchuria, where many innocent Chinese, Korean and Mongolian people were killed in grotesque experiments. An idealistic ... See full summary »

Director: Godfrey Ho | Stars: Yishou Jiang, Yuen-Ching Leung, Xingqiang Li, Dingyao Liu

Votes: 668

6. The Children of Huang Shi (2008)

R | 125 min | Drama, War

About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.

Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh

Votes: 9,989 | Gross: $1.03M

7. China Girl (1942)

Approved | 95 min | Drama, War

With America still neutral, an American news photographer on assignment in Burma is courted by both the Japanese and The Flying Tiger volunteers fighting for China to film the strategic Burma Road.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Gene Tierney, George Montgomery, Lynn Bari, Victor McLaglen

Votes: 686 | Gross: $1.40M

8. MDMA (2017)

Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama

In 1984, the most powerful drug dealer on the west coast was a 19 year old coed. Based on actual events.

Director: Angie Wang | Stars: Annie Q. Riegel, Francesca Eastwood, Pierson Fode, Scott Keiji Takeda

Votes: 762

9. Duel to the Death (1983)

R | 86 min | Action, Drama

The best sword master from China vs the best sword master from Japan. Who will win?

Director: Siu-Tung Ching | Stars: Norman Chu, Damian Lau, Flora Chong-Leen, Paul Chang Chung

Votes: 2,374

10. Bloody Fists (1972)

Not Rated | 94 min | Action

A band of evil Japanese martial artists want to possess all the dragon herb in a small Chinese village. It's up to fugitive loner and ace karate fighter Jang Wu-dip to stop these nefarious marauders.

Director: See-Yuen Ng | Stars: Sing Chen, Kuan Tai Chen, Ta-Chuan Liu, Yung Henry Yu

Votes: 246

11. Shinjuku Triad Society (1995)

Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Amidst a Chinese and Japanese mafia war, a lawyer for the Chinese mob finds a rift forming between him and his corrupt police office brother.

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Kippei Shîna, Tomorô Taguchi, Takeshi Caesar, Ren Ôsugi

Votes: 2,469

12. Purple Butterfly (2003)

R | 127 min | Drama, History, War

Cynthia is a young Chinese woman in love with Itami, a Japanese man about to be sent home for military service.

Director: Ye Lou | Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Tôru Nakamura, Ye Liu, Yuanzheng Feng

Votes: 1,346 | Gross: $0.02M

13. Holy Weapon (1993)

R | 98 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

The story of Seven Maidens who are recruited to challenge the threat posed by a Japanese swordsman of supernatural power.

Directors: Jing Wong, Dennis Chan | Stars: Michelle Yeoh, Carol 'Do Do' Cheng, Maggie Cheung, Sandra Kwan Yue Ng

Votes: 304

14. Unit 731: Nightmare in Manchuria (1998 TV Movie)

Documentary, War

Features the terrible story behind WWII "Unit 731", a japanese military base located in the puppet state of Manchuria, China.

Votes: 108

15. Little Superman (1974)

101 min | Action, Drama

World War II Japan...the Japanese military learn that the Chinese government has stolen some secret military plans and that they will attempt to send them to Hong Kong via Macau. When a ... See full summary »

Director: See-Yuen Ng | Stars: Siu-Lung Leung, Yuan-Shen Huang, Chin Hu, Seok-hoon Nam

Votes: 96

16. Fung lau yuen gwai (1984)

84 min | Horror

A woman is raped and murdered during World War 2. Forty years later she returns to haunt her persecutors from the Tao Tao Mansion. A professor and his family move into the house, only to have the spirits take their son.

Directors: Chun Keung Chiu, Tai-Heng Li | Stars: Tony Liu, Wai Yee Chin, Mabel Kwong, Kuan-Chung Ku

Votes: 64

17. Da che fu (1974)

98 min | Action, Adventure

A rickshaw puller is forced to take revenge against a group called the invincible four, and their Japanese backers after they murder his uncle, mother and girlfriend.

Director: Joseph Kuo | Stars: Chiang-Lung Wen, Yan-Yung Tso, Ping Lu, Chiang Han

Votes: 26

18. Great Rescue (2012)

90 min | Drama, Thriller

In 1932, as Korea is occupied by Japan, Chu Fucheng, an important figure in the city of Jiaxing, China, is asked to help in hiding exiled Korean nationalist Kim Gu.

Directors: Jian Mao, Bo Xu | Stars: Winston Chao, Shuangbao Wang, Yanlin Dong, Chengxun Cui

Votes: 13

19. Jia wu feng yun (1962)

95 min | History, War

In 1894 the Japanese Imperial Navy provokes the Chinese navy to test defenses. Some Chinese want to make concessions while others want to fight. When Japan invades, some naval officers put up a heroic resistance.

Director: Nong Lin | Stars: Jie Li, Moran Li, Xueqin Pang, Ke Pu

Votes: 86

20. Burning Harbor (1998)

104 min | Drama, War

At the end of WWII, Japanese realize the failure will come and decide to build a secret submarine base in Hong Kong for last resistance. A China cargo boat is imposed and mariners are ... See full summary »

Director: Xiepu Li | Stars: Winston Chao, Lin He, Irene Wan, John Currie Slade

21. The Adventures of Tintin (1991–1992)
Episode: The Blue Lotus: Part 1 (1991)

TV-G | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

After the arrest of most of the members of the drug syndicate, the leader behind the organization was never found and is still at large. Tintin, who is enjoying his stay at the palace of ... See full summary »

Director: Stéphane Bernasconi | Stars: Colin O'Meara, Thierry Wermuth, Christian Pelissier, Henri Labussière

Votes: 418

22. The Adventures of Tintin (1991–1992)
Episode: The Blue Lotus: Part 2 (1991)

TV-G | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The only way to save those who have been injected with the madness poison is by finding a doctor who can provide an antidote to cure them. However the doctor was kidnapped by the syndicate ... See full summary »

Director: Stéphane Bernasconi | Stars: Colin O'Meara, Thierry Wermuth, Christian Pelissier, Henri Labussière

Votes: 395