Asian Films Like Mickey 17

Sam-soon, a 30-year-old pastry chef dumped on Christmas Eve, enters a fake-dating contract with the arrogant CEO of a restaurant chain while both are nursing heartbreak — and slowl…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

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Five mothers whose children attend the same elite elementary school form a reluctant friendship, as their picture-perfect lives begin unraveling to reveal jealousy, ambition, and b…

Like Mickey 17, it leans hard into dark comedy. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

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Four generations of a Korean family navigate survival, sacrifice, and identity across Japanese colonial Korea, post-war Japan, and modern-day America — a sweeping saga built on one…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

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A woman fakes her own death to escape a manipulative first husband and create a new life for herself and her daughter, until a chance encounter with a kind man threatens to expose …

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

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Yook Dong-shik is a mild-mannered office worker who accidentally witnesses a murder — and then accidentally picks up the killer's diary. Upon reading it, he becomes convinced he IS…

Like Mickey 17, it leans hard into identity crisis. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be.

Hanna is a plus-size woman who provides the voice for a shallow pop star's lip-synced performances — and who goes through a full head-to-toe plastic surgery transformation to becom…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same satirical energy throughout.

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Set during the Manchu invasion of 1636, Gil Chae is a noblewoman obsessed with marrying well — until she crosses paths with Jang Hyun, an enigmatic man of mysterious origins who sa…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

A meticulous 2018 detective is hit by a car and wakes up in 1988 as a young cop in a rural city. Trapped between a time he knows nothing about and a case he can't solve, he must fi…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

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Five members of a K-pop group are unexpectedly disbanded by their label. With nothing but the music they made together and the determination not to be discarded quietly, they decid…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

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you watch

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2071. A catastrophic meteor strike has turned Korea into a near-uninhabitable wasteland. Less than 1% of the population has clean air; everyone else depends on deliverymen called '…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. You'll recognize the corporate villain immediately.