Talk:List of historical films set in Asia

Detective Dee
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame ?? in Chinese Historical Drama ???

The Historical elements are minimal to non existent .Also culturally its Bond gadgetry meets Qin Dynasty ...

Dee is as best a Wuxia Movie .. with the compelling mentality "all your bases belong to us". As all 21st century inventions are featured in that movie with an Sino Twist. (Much like Cosmetic Surgery in "Reign of Assassins")

Detective Dee being historical drama is at best calling Abe Lincoln Vamp / Zombie Hunter as dramatized history ..


 * Chill, most of these "historical" films aren't historical. Timmyshin (talk) 03:17, 18 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Godzilla is historical period drama too apparantly

"Mainland Chinese history"?
I'm uncertain behind the reasons behind naming a section "Mainland Chinese history". The term "mainland China" was invented by the Kuomintang in Taiwan during the 1950s in an "us and them" manner; that is, "mainland China", the communist regime that occupies the land that the KMT also claims, is "them", whilst the Tai-Peng-Kin-Ma Area of the ROC is "us". This was so that they did not have to name the PRC directly, a state in which they did not recognise. Later on when dealing with cross-strait relations, the term was also picked up by those within the PRC to distinguish themselves from "those others", without specifically having to refer to the names of states. Now, given that most of these films are historic in the sense of occurring in imperial times (i.e. before the PRC-ROC split), why are we using this term?

If you just want to refer to historical China, use "China" - it is in no case POV as there was no PRC/ROC, nor mainland/TPKM back in the times of the Three Kingdoms, Ming Dynasty or Qing Dynasty. If you want to refer to a film about the 228 Incident, just refer to the geographical location of Taiwan - no one is claiming Taiwan as a state, so there is no POV either. We don't have to go excessive over this China/Taiwan business so that things don't end up making sense. --  李博杰   | —Talk contribs email 03:28, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

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Hwarang
Shouldn't Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth be added to this list? It happened in the Silla kingdom. I think it should be added. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SmartPandaLover (talk • contribs) 01:46, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Japanese History columns
The Japanese History table's columns are completely inconsistent with the rest of the article, and very little attention has been given to the historical dating or providing any context to the historical setting. I propose we do away with the "Notable Cast" and "Director" columns, change the "Release Date" format to a simple year like all other tables, and change the "Notes" to "Notes on Settings." Kungjaada (talk) 01:56, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

Proper order?
Hello@Danial Bass, the summary of your recent edit was "pls follow proper ordering". Can I ask you what you meant? This wikitable orders thing according to the reader's wish (date, title, setting, etc.) so that I'd say you can insert any new row wherever you wish in the table. Did I miss something? - My, oh my! (Mushy Yank)  15:13, 10 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi there. It says right at the lead "The films on this page are divided into regions, and within each region the films are listed chronologically." But besides this, if it doesn't say (like some pages) I would try to look of there is already an order, only if there's no order I put it wherever I want. Thanks Danial Bass (talk) 15:19, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your reply@Danial Bass - My, oh my! (Mushy Yank)  16:03, 10 September 2023 (UTC)