The Best Science Fiction Asian Films

A disaster thriller that tells the story of Seoul, which has been devastated by a massive earthquake, and begins with the gathering of the only remaining survivors from Hwang Goong Apartment.

Concrete Utopia (2022)

In the year 2061, the Wandering Earth Project is a mass migration project to move Earth out of the solar system due to the aging sun is about to turn into a red giant which threatens to engulf the Earth's orbit within 100 years. The migration goal is to move to the Alpha Centauri system and needed 12,000 enormous fusion-powered Earth Engines built across the Northern Hemisphere to propel the entirety of planet Earth. Chinese astronaut Liu Peiqiang oversees the gravitational slingshot maneuver of Earth before going on his mission to the Navigation Platform International Space Station to help navigate the Earth along its interstellar journey.

As human population dies in the next few years due to cataclysmic natural disasters and as the planet distances from the sun, most of the surface becomes frozen solid forcing remaining humans to live in vast underground cities built adjacent to and under the engines. 17 years later, in 2078, Liu Peiqiang is set to return to Earth after the Chinese New Year but devastating earthquakes disabled many earth engines stopping the course of migration. Liu Peiqiang decides to embark on the journey to fix what needed to be fix for the sake of his son and humanity.

The Wandering Earth - Special Edition: Beyond 2020 (2020)

The protagonist finds himself in a time loop where he struggles to achieve a permanent relationship with his true love from his school days before the effects of memory dysfunction from time traveling stop him from remembering anything.

Love You Forever (2020)

Ching-yan lives with his young protege Tim and an inventor referred to only as The Doctor. One day they decide to embark on a quest to the Snowy Mountain in hopes of finding a special block of ice that is said to contain the life essence of immortality. The evil Devil King also wants the ice, but Ching-yan thinks that it contains the secret to meeting a woman who appears in his dreams and attempts to keep it for himself.

Saviour Of The Soul II (1992)

A kind-hearted fisherman, content with simple life, is reluctantly drawn into helping a noble emperor regain his throne from his evil brother.

Moon Warriors (1992)

A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.

Cloud Atlas (2012)

A young girl throws an 8 pool ball down a portal to outer space, where it becomes much larger and starts charging towards the Earth to destroy everything.

Happy Birthday (2012)

After an alien invasion threatens to annihilate the human race, a young Japanese girl, named Milly, travels back in time from 2084 to October 2002, and enlists the reluctant aid of skilled Tokyo gunman, named Miyamoto, to discover and prevent the start of the war. However, trouble ensues when the two protagonists are forced to deal with a Japanese mafia boss, named Mizoguchi, who is somehow involved in the start of the war by keeping the first alien spaceship and its alien pilot captive, while our two heroes race against the clock to find a way to stop the oncoming destruction from the vengeance-seeking alien invasion fleet on its way to Earth.

Returner (2002)

The interstellar exploration spacecraft "Deep Space" that mysteriously disappeared 150 years ago suddenly appeared in low Earth orbit. The Human Space Agency set up an interim committee to investigate and question the only survivor. The horror experience of "Deep Space" is slowly developing.

Invisible Alien (2021)

Andy Lau is Wesley, investigating alien existence on this earth. He works outside of the MIB-influenced FBI operation, run by Shu Qi and Roy Cheung. They're hot on the trail of the Blue-Blooded Alien (Rosamund Kwan). Two other aliens, the "Warlock Toxin Group," are gunning for her as well -- red maggoty swarming creatures that form into Mark Cheng and Almen Wong.

The Wesley's Mysterious File (2002)

An author, her reputation threatened by public humiliation, finds herself a prisoner, struggling to escape from a futuristic cult. Meanwhile, representatives of mankind debate with a time traveller to save the future of humanity.

Fallen (2020)

A young man goes to Las Vegas with his best friend to prove he can win big bucks. When he loses all of the money, he and his friend get help from a young woman who tells the man the story of some special stones that are part of a legend involving time travel and parallel universes. When the trio get in a car accident, the young gambler is the only survivor. Pursued by a female detective, the two accidentally end up back in time on Christmas Day, where the gambler decides to make the wrong things right, and he also ends up falling in love with the detective.

Second Time Around (2002)