story by Japanese dramatist Kōki Mitani. It made into a movie

Zhan Zhao is a court officer who learns of a plot to assassinate Judge Bao. While on holiday he meets a young man named Bai who turns out to be a woman. Zhan Zhao tries to recruit Bai to help him stop the assassination of Judge Bao.

2021 film by Chloé Zhao

2021 film directed by Benny Chan

In 1969, Kenji, an elementary school kid and his friends built a secret base during their summer holidays. They fantasized that they had to fight villains who were out to conquer the world and wrote them in the Book of Prophecies. Years later in 1997, Kenji becomes a convenience store manager and leads a regular life after giving up his dreams to become a rock star. His boring life is suddenly turned upside down when his old classmate dies mysteriously and an entire family in the neighbourhood disappears. At the same time, a religious cult and its mysterious leader, Friend emerges and a strange chain of events duplicating exactly the events described in the Book of Prophecies follow. Is this the beginning of the end of the world? Who is Friend?

1999 film by Hiroyuki Okiura

Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he miss the excitement of the big city, but he also has a well-meaning oaf for a partner. However, when a series of grisly accidents rocks Sandford, Angel smells something rotten in the idyllic village.

2020 film directed by Akira Tanaka

2019 film

2006 Chinese film from Ning Hao

2021 film directed by Hideaki Anno

2007 film by Richard Schenkman

1948 Chinese film

In pre-communism China, a widowed man falls in love with a young colleague who's the same age as his own children.

看不到一点绿色的荒漠中央，一辆越野车载着数名全副武装的人类疾驰而过。他们来到了那座早已成为废墟的大都市，寻找各种可以回首的有用材料，同时执行这一项极其危险的秘密任务。他们的举动很快就被对手发现，那是一辆战争时期遗留下来的智能战车，它可准确感知对手的存在，并第一时间发动毁灭性的攻击。战士们按照原定计划展开合围，可是根本抵挡不住机器战车的猛烈炮火。
死一般沉寂的都市，人和机器的战争逐渐升级。可叹的是，人类制造出如此精良的武器，却用它来毁灭了文明，毁灭了自己……

Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago. The case involved a group of people extorting several companies for money. The group sent cassette tapes to the companies. Eiji Akutsu comes across a mysterious cassette tape. Meanwhile, Toshiya Sone lives in Kyoto and runs a tailor shop. He discovers a cassette tape among his late father's possessions. He plays the cassette tape and hears his voice from his childhood days.

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.

2021 film directed by Zack Snyder

Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation.

A Japanese police unit who use giant anthropomorphic robots (called Labors) is caught up in a political struggle between the civilian authorities and the military when a terrorist act is blamed on an Air Force jet. With the aid of a government agent, the team gets close to a terrorist leader to stop things from going out of control when after the military is impelled to impose martial law.