Decades ago, Hollywood crews came here when they needed the filth and corruption of the exotic East, as seen in the thriller Wit's End (1975) and the crime drama Saint Jack (1979).
Recently, thanks to incentives from the Government, teams from overseas came here again to find Future Asia, as seen in the science-fiction romance Equals (2015) and the action thriller Agent 47 (2015).
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