Richard Chamberlain/Shōgun

After surviving a storm, English navigator John Blackthorn (Richard Chamberlain) and the crew of the Dutch ship Erasmus find themselves washed ashore in feudal Japan, with which the Europeans intend to trade. But things are not so simple: Blackthorne quickly realizes that the natives paradoxically combine incredible hospitality with unbearable cruelty. “This is because the Japanese have six faces and three hearts,” explains his Spanish colleague Vasco Rodriguez (John Rhys-Davies), who works for the Portuguese Jesuits, with whom the anti-clerical Blackthorne has a fierce enmity and serious competition.

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David Bowie/Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

In 1942, Major Jack Sellars (David Bowie) is sent to a Japanese camp for British prisoners of war on the island of Java, where he becomes the object of interest and desire for Captain Yonoi (Ryūichi Sakamoto), while in the background, Colonel John Lawrence (Tom Conti) and the head of security, Sergeant Hara (Takeshi Kitano), settle their differences. Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses, Empire of the Senses) in this amazingly subtle film conducts a dialogue between two island cultures — Japanese and British — as if on two semantic levels: poetic and prosaic.

Peter O’Toole/The Last Emperor

The life story of the last Chinese emperor, Pu Yi (John Lone), from his early years to his old age. But the film by the great Italian director Bertolucci is not so much a biopic as a true epic canvas in which the director, known as a master of embracing the immensity (see also his 20th Century), makes the emperor an integral part of the entire history of the past century. Peter O’Toole plays Reginald Johnston, the wise British mentor of Pu Yi, who teaches the young monarch to be a gentleman (who else but “Lawrence of Arabia” could do this?).

Brad Pitt/Seven Years in Tibet

In 1939, Austrian mountaineer and Nazi Party member Heinrich Harrer (Brad Pitt) ran away from his pregnant wife (Ingeborga Dapkunaite) to conquer the Himalayas, as he was bursting with ambition, but soon he had to forget about it — Harrer, along with other members of the expedition, was taken prisoner by the British, then escaped with his friend Peter (David Thewlis), he will suffer from the cold in the mountains and longing for his family, until he finds himself in the closed Tibetan city of Lhasa, where he befriends the young Dalai Lama (Jamyang Jamyth Wangchuk), and this friendship will change his life.

Jodie Foster/Anna and the King

In the mid-19th century, a headstrong English teacher named Anna (Jodie Foster) and her son (Tom Felton, Draco Malfoy from Harry Potter) arrives in Siam (now Thailand) to teach the eldest son of King Mongkut (Chow Yun-Fat) the language, but instead finds herself having to educate all the children of his large family, which includes 23 wives, 42 concubines, 58 offspring, and ten more on the way. “I understand your surprise,” the king tells Anne, “it’s not as many as the Chinese emperor, but he didn’t spend half his life in a monastery.” However, Chow Yun-fat’s character soon falls in love with the teacher because he sees her as his equal.