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Based on the real historical background, the introduction of modern young Xiaocao's first love for grandma, tells the love story of Lin Qinglian from the famous gate of Shanghai who joined the New Fourth Army, met with local militia Li Changsheng on the battlefield, and finally separated due to war.

The Past of Huanghuatang (2019)

Kenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached with a request from the Meiji government. Makoto Shishio, a former assassin like Kenshin, was betrayed, set on fire and left for dead. He survived, and is now in Kyoto, plotting with his gathered warriors to overthrow the new government. Against Kaoru's wishes, Kenshin reluctantly agrees to go to Kyoto and help keep his country from falling back into civil war.

Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno (2014)

During the Northern Song Dynasty, the valuable Xuanwu Order was lost to the rivers and lakes, and the four martial arts families fought against each other. Leng Xuanfeng trapped Nangong Yu and his men in the dense forest of Wolong Valley. At the same time, Princess Yongning, a descendant of the Zhou Dynasty, was captured by the young master of the Green Dragon Gate, Xu Lingyun, and Nangong Yu was so furious that he sent a letter to Master Jing Yuan of the Heavenly Mountains and Snowy Range. Mok Siu Ho obeys his master's order and returns to the mountain, resolving the feuds and disputes between the four families and restoring the peace of the rivers and lakes. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Chivalrous (2020)

Towards the end of WWII, the Navy gave the Kyoto University's physics lab the secret of a bomb that makes use of nuclear fission energy. While doing research to save Japan, the researchers there wonder if they should promote the development of weapons as scientists. Research enthusiast Ishimura Osamu tries to experiment purely but is at the mercy of the time period. His brother, Hiroyuki, also has to face the truth of the war. Asakura Setsu wants only to talk about the future. A story based on historical facts about youth during the tragedy of war.

Taiyou no Ko: GIFT OF FIRE (2020)

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 tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.

City of Life and Death (2009)

A triangular relationship between Eo Woo-dong, her husband Lee Dong, and fantasy character Moo-gong, highlights on the first half of the Joseon Dynasty and portrays the contradicted life of the high class people, criticizing the modern day Korean society.

Lost Flower: Eo Woo-dong (2015)

The true story of independence fighter AHN Jung-geun, who assassinated Prince ITO Hirobumi in 1909.

Hero (2022)

In the winter of 1950, in the icy and snowy area of Changjin Lake, a bloody battle between the United States and China was about to begin. China and the United States respectively sent the most elite troop troops to fight-the 9th Corps of the Chinese People's Volunteers, the 1st US Marine Division, and the 7th Infantry Division.

The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021)

Explores the landscape and stories within the community of Krabi, Southern Thailand. A major tourist destination in Thailand, the filmmakers want to capture the town in this specific moment where the pre-historic, the more recent past and the contemporary world collide, sometimes uneasily.

Krabi, 2562 (2019)

A historical drama set in the Koryo dynasty and focused on the relationship between a king and his bodyguard. Under the dominance of Yuan Dynasty China, the king of Goryeo Dynasty Korea is pressured to produce a successor to the throne. Unable to make love to his queen because he is in love with his bodyguard, Hong Lim, the king asks the two of them to sleep together instead. This sexual contact formulates a forbidden love between Hong Lim and the Queen.

A Frozen Flower (2008)

The historical fantasy film basically revolves around the tale of an impoverished scholar and a fox demon in search of a magic pill. Chen Linong plays the guileless Wang Zijin, the scholar on the way to Beijing who inadvertently becomes fast friends with Li Xian’s fox demon Bai Shisan. Unbeknownst to him, the wily Bai Shisan actually has plans to use him to retrieve the magic pill that will turn him immortal.

Soul Snatcher (2020)

Shishio has set sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the Meiji government and return Japan to chaos, carrying Kaoru with him. In order to stop him in time, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final technique.

Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends (2014)