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Asian film titles in battle (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

vietnamese

'asian' is the definition.
(I know that Vietnamese is a type of asian)

'film titles in battle' is the wordplay.
'film' becomes 'ET' (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial).
'titles' becomes 'names' (I've seen this in another clue).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'battle' becomes 'vie'.
'et'+'names'='etnames'
'etnames' put into 'vie' is 'VIETNAMESE'.

(Other definitions for vietnamese that I've seen before include "oriental language" , "Asians" , "Natives of Hanoi" , "Asian language" , "People" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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