Media Entertainment What did Asians do just as good or even better in cinema, television, animations, stage, and music versus the world?

Every Asian country in the whole continent of Asia has their own rich media culture.  Unfortunately, I'm only vaguely familiar with a few of them, and I stress the word "vaguely" because I'm by no means an expert.  

The four that comes to mind are Japanese animation and large monster movies, the Hong Kong and Chinese wuxia movies, the Indian (Bollywood) cinema, and the South Korean K-pop music phenomenon.  There are of course more, but these are the ones that I'm vaguely familiar with.

Japanese animation has been very popular for quite some time.  Now there's the Japanese animation style, and then there's the early animation studios that produce non-Japanese animation styles such as the 1969 American cartoon "Frosty the Snowman" which was produced by Mushi Studios, a Tokyo based animation company.  Japanese animation evolved every decade, and in those early years they resembled a more American style of animation.  Again, I'm no expert, but some of the more early popular ones that I'm vaguely familiar with are Astro Boy, Speed Racer, Star Blazers (Battleship Yamato I), and G- Force or Battle of the Planets (Gatchaman), and they were produced in the 1960s and 1970s respectively.  But it was in the 1980s that in my opinion Japanese animation reached a golden age especially in terms of style and sheer volume of production such as Voltron, Transformers, Robotech (which combined three separate and unrelated anime series called Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross and Genesis Climber MOSPEADA), the movie Macross:  Do You Remember Love? (the movie equivalent of the first saga of Robotech), Thunder Cats, Mighty Orbots, SilverHawks, Bubblegum Crisis, Akira, Record of Loduss War, and many more which I can't think of right now.  In the 1990s you had more darker themed anime such Battle Angel Alita and Aeon Flux.  I'm not too familiar with the 1990s and up animation actually.  The Japanese animation style excelled in showcasing action (all types of action, but especially fighting sequences, flying sequences, and actions involving robots or mecha), and there is an intensity to their action that's not found in other animation.  Another quality was the use of large eyes with little circles or bubbles in them.  Robots and mechs were used often, and all types and sizes were used, but they were successful in producing large robots or mechs as in Robotech, Voltron, Transformers, and ships and robots/mechs would fly with a large after burner thrust (as seen in Astro Boy, and especially in Robotech).  They probably were the first to use robot transformation, as in Transformers, Robotech, and Voltron.  On top of that, the idea of combining separate robots or entities to form as a single unit, as in Voltron, or the Transformer character "Devastator", or the Tornado formation of the five characters in Battle of the Planets (Gatchaman).  The Japanese may have been one of the first to depict large space ships or flying ships in animation (as seen in Star Blazers, Robotech, the character "Unicron" in Transformers, the God Phoenix in G-Force or Battle of the Planets), or a large number of space ships (as in Robotech).  The largest space battle scene ever depicted in anime (or even in live action film) may have been the 27th episode of the first saga of Robotech entitled "Force of Arms", or the final battle scene of Macross:  Do You Remember Love?.  The concept of cyber punk is thought to be influenced by the Japanese anime of the 1980s and onward.  Japanese animation was often more realistic compared to the more comedic and cartoonish style of American animation, and sometimes they would depict characters dying or ships (with people in it) being destroyed and etc., but on the lighter side, they dealt with more mature themes such as love, relationships, sadness, and etc.  Japanese animation can be very poetic, and is likely influenced by their cultural and historical artistic styles and their religion, Shintoism, and East Asian art influences, and this is especially evident in the final episode of the first saga of Robotech (Episode 36 "To the Stars") where the character Minmei is walking away after being "rejected" by Rick Hunter and snow all of a sudden falls like the falling flowers of a cherry blossom tree depicting sadness and an end to their relationship and the whole story.

So far I've only discussed Japanese animation, but the large live-action monster genre and robot genre was something that the Japanese were also very successful especially with Godzilla and Gamera, but more on this later.                 

^ These are all all East Asians which we have nothing to do with. 

Koreans = KPOP 

Japanese = Anime, Ninja, Samurai. 

Chinese = Bruce lee, Jackie Chan. 

@rr , We should appreciate the arts of our neighbors.  There is some cross-over.  For example, Mothra's origin likely originates somewhere in the South Pacific.  The twin miniature fairy ladies that accompany Mothra sing in Malay.  Godzilla and Monster Island (where many other large monsters live) are in some tropical island most likely in the Pacific.  

Also, there is a type of Muay Thai and Silat wuxia with Tony Jaa and Iko Uwais respectively. 

Some of the animation studios are in the Philippines.