Top Rated Asian Movies 2024

Last month, September movies list was packed with Asian movies. A good number of Asian movies provide excellent content and food for thought. I have selected one each from different language zones to fill the September movies list. Though a late post, do add a few of the September movies list into your view catalogue.

Kottukkaali

Year: 2024
Duration: 1h 33m
Language: Tamil
Director: Vinothraj
Cast: Anna Ben, Soori and others
Imdb: 7.00

When Meena is possessed by evil spirit, she is taken to the family goddess by her family and by her would-be husband’s family members. Apparently, Meena has turned mute and devoid of any emotions ever since the marriage is fixed by the family. Everyone around her, including her would-be, Pandi assumes she is possessed. Set in a village in Tamil Nadu, the story lulls along shedding light on castism, superstition, prejudices and violence in the name of pride of the family. Pandi is portrayed as someone violent and sticking adamantly to the so-called family values. While, Meena happened to be in love with a boy from a different cast. One wonders if it is Meena who is possessed or Pandi! The story ends at an interesting juncture leaving the audience to guess the rest. One of the intriguing Asian movies to watch.

The Great Phuket

Year: 2024
Duration: 1h 37m
Language: Mandarin
Director: Xiao Ban Jie
Cast: You Junfen, Hang Kang, Li Rongkun and others
Imdb: 7.5

Young Li Xing lives with his mother and stepfather at his hometown of Great Phuket. It is a city that doesn’t give him any happy thoughts. Amidst the construction sites and unfriendly school life, Li always wants to move away from the place. Since his mother doesn’t want to leave the city, he is left with no choices but to go on. Song is his only friend and source of comfort. While being chased by security guards, Song is injured and that is enough for his mother to keep him away from Li. Meanwhile, Li discovers an underground tunnel. Since he now is alone, he enters the tunnel to explore it. The rest of the movie is about the stranger things happening inside the tunnel.

All The Long Nights

Year: 2024
Duration: 1h 59m
Language: Japanese
Director: Shô Miyake
Cast: Shô Miyake, Maiko Seo, Kiyohito Wada and others
Imdb: 7.3

Misa is facing terrible episodes of PMS. Her condition is so bad that she cannot even have a steady job or a normal life. Yamazoe on the other hand has panic attacks. Coincidently both of them end up working in the same firm. However, neither of them knows about each other’s conditions. As the story slowly unwraps, the viewers get a brief idea of both these conditions. Two different conditions with different symptoms and levels of severity. Yet, both Misa and Yamazoe after an unpleasant and annoying initial interaction, begin to get along well. They begin to learn about each other’s conditions and in the process get even more closer. And together they work smarter. It is one of the fascinating Asian movies to be added to your list.

Citizen of a Kind

Year: 2024
Duration: 1h 53m
Language: Korean
Director: Park Yong-ju
Cast: Ra Mi-ran, Gong Myoung, Yeom Hye-ran and others
Imdb: 6.6

Hwaseong, 2016. After being badly cheated by a phone call scammer and losing $32000, Mrs. Kim is desperate to get her money back. Without much suspense, who the scammers are and how they function are seen in the beginning itself. Once she learns from the police that they closed the case even before they hardly opened it, she is on her own. However, she gets another call from the scammer, this time, someone to help her. An informer from the gang, requests her help to expose the gang. She is back to the detective with the first tip, but the officer doesn’t bother to listen to her. By the time, the detective realizes his mistake, it is a bit late. Mrs. Kim and her friends are already on the case.

Ipar Adalah Maut

Year: 2024
Duration: 2h 11m
Language: Indonesian
Director: Hanung Bramantyo
Cast: Michelle Ziudith,Deva Mahenra and Davina Karamoy
Imdb: 7.5

When Nisa married a handsome and brilliant professor like Aris, she might have only thought of a beautiful life ahead. And she is not wrong. Their happiness only doubled after the birth of their daughter, Raya. Nisa’s younger sister is Rani whom their mother sends to Nisa’s care. Although Nisa is busy looking after the household and a small cake business, she accepts Rani to the household. Even Aris raises no objection to her staying with them. Rani is a college going teenager. Initially the four got along well. A while later, an unexpected incident occurs between Aris and Rani that sinks them into guilt. However, neither of them reveals the same to Nisa who is always occupied with something or other. As for Rani and Aris, they are now guilt free to do the forbidden. Soon, Nisa discovers what goes on behind her back and the tune of the story changes.

The Paradise of Thorns

Year: 2024
Duration: 2h 11m
Language: Thai
Director: Naruebet Kuno
Cast:  Jeff Satur, Engfa Waraha, Srida Puapimol and others
Imdb: 7.8

Two Thai gay couple, Thongkam and Sek live a happy life together. They have worked hard to build a house and a durian orchid. Sek’s accidental fall from a tree and subsequent death leaves Thongkam in a spot of bother. As long as they were together, questions of ownership or property never arose. Now that Sek is no more. Unfortunately for Thongkam, the property was registered in Sek’s name. as per the inheritance law in the land, the property now could be inherited by Sek’s mother and family. Life of Thongkam becomes miserable when the mother of Sek and her adopted daughter come over to his house to stay and claim the property. The two women know well how to exploit the sympathetic character of Thongkam. Will he be able to save everything that he and his partner labored hard to put together?