135 Films & TV Shows Set In China During The 1940s
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The Eight Hundred
Shanghai The 1930s The 1940sBased on the true story of one of the greatest battles of WWII — In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.
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Midway
Hawaii 🇨🇳 China Tokyo Prefecture 🇲🇭 Marshall Islands Pacific Ocean The 1940s The 1930sOne battle turned the tide of war. — The story of the Battle of Midway, and the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome massive odds.
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Ip Man: Kung Fu Master
Guangdong Province The 1940sIp Man’s promising career as a Policeman is ruined after he is framed for murder and targeted by a mob boss’s daughter.
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Air Strike
Chongqing Municipality The 1940s The 1930sThey fought World War II's greatest battle. — An American pilot is sent to a Chinese province to teach a crew of would-be pilots how to fly war planes against the Japanese during World War II.
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Hidden Man
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sA martial arts-infused spy thriller set in 1937 Beijing. A time when China was lurching between revolution, prosperity, and chaos.
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Mr. No Problem
Chongqing Municipality The 1940sShot in stylish black-and-white, this three-act fable, set in wartime Chongqing, focuses on the indifferent rich, the head clerk on a farm, and some young intruders. Based on a 1943 short story, the film was directed by noted screenwriter Mei Feng.
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Our Time Will Come
🇨🇳 China The 1940s The 1930sIn Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to freedom.
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Fist & Faith
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sChina, 1930s. After the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, several high school boys face the new harsh situation day after day. When a beautiful teacher begins her new job at the Cheonghwa school, things start to change.
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The Hidden Sword
🇨🇳 China The 1940s The 1930sThe widow of a famed general teams up with an impostor posing as her late husband and schemes to steal the secrets of an elderly master swordsman. Their plans are complicated by the master's grandson, who is himself torn between his filial duty and the affections of his adopted sister.
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The Chinese Widow
Zhejiang Province Tokyo Prefecture The 1940s The 1930sIt’s 1941 and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has destroyed America’s morale. The US President Franklin D. Roosevelt then decides to risk it all by bombing Tokyo and raise more hope for his citizens. After completing its mission, a unit of the US Air Force is forced to make an emergency landing in China. Its commander Jack Turner (Emilie Hirsch) barely survives but gets rescued by Ying (Crystal Liu), a local widow who will stop at nothing to hide him from the Japanese occupant.
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Railroad Tigers
🇨🇳 China The 1940s The 1930sRoaring soon — A railroad worker in China in 1941 leads a team of freedom fighters against the Japanese in order to get food for the poor.
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The Wasted Times
Shanghai The 1930s The 1940sSet against a chaotic, war torn Shanghai, “The Wasted Times” follows a local crime boss at the receiving end of the Japanese army’s attempt to forge a dubious alliance. Spanning three separate times during the period, the story details mindsets from various perspectives, all culminating in a suspenseful and tense finale.
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Where the Wind Settles
🇨🇳 China 🇹🇼 Taiwan The 1970s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sThree men and an adopted son struggle in Taiwan after escaping China in 1949.
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A Tale of Three Cities
Anhui Province Shanghai 🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sA former spy in the Chinese Nationalist Party falls for an opium-dealing widow, as China is ravaged by war and revolution.
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The Taking of Tiger Mountain
🇨🇳 China The 1940sBased on the real life story of an incident in 1946 during the Chinese Civil War, the film involves a communist reconnaissance team soldier Yang Zirong who disguised himself as a bandit to infiltrate a local gang of bandits, eventually helping the main communist force to destroy the bandits. Based on the novel "Tracks in the Snowy Forest" by Qu Bo.
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The Grandmaster
🇨🇳 China 🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1930s The 1940sIn Martial Arts there is no right or wrong, only the last man standing. — Ip Man's peaceful life in Foshan changes after Gong Yutian seeks an heir for his family in Southern China. Ip Man then meets Gong Er who challenges him for the sake of regaining her family's honor. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man moves to Hong Kong and struggles to provide for his family. In the mean time, Gong Er chooses the path of vengeance after her father was killed by Ma San.
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The Chef, The Actor, The Scoundrel
🇨🇳 China The 1940s The 1930sThe.Chef.the.Actor.and.the.Scoundrel — During Second Sino-Japanese War, China suffered from cholera outbreak because Japanese uses it as an biological weapon. Four Chinese agents captures a Japanese scientist and his bodyguard and interrogate them by Chinese opera in order to get the vaccine formula. Written by tom0902000
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The Wrath Of Vajra
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sIn the 1930s , a Japanese cult called The Temple of Hades was ordered to cooperate with the Japanese military to destroy China. They buy so many young children from poor family , who will be trained as a lethal killing machine and serve the Empire of Japan. One of them is Vajra , who was forced by his captors to fight for the food , and accidentally causing the death of his brother. Several years later , Vajra grown up and become one of the biggest killer in the Hades sect. Vajra escapes to China and joins Shaolin , where he receives spiritual enlightenment and determined to support China against Japan.
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Back to 1942
Henan Province The 1940s The 1930sHistory should never be forgotten — In 1942, Henan Province was devastated by the most tragic famine in modern Chinese history, resulting in the deaths of at least three million men, women and children. Although the primary cause of the famine was a severe drought, it was exacerbated by locusts, windstorms, earthquakes, epidemic disease and the corruption of the ruling Kuomintang government.
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The Flowers of War
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sFighting for freedom — A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
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The Resistance
🇨🇳 China The 1940sIn a time of war, when an invasion turns to genocide, a peasant girl must choose between death or The Resistance — In 1937, Japan began their invasion of China by murdering over 300,000 people in the capital of Nanjing. The atrocities committed against women and their daughters are especially barbaric. One of them is Xiaoyun, a peasant girl who fights with the Chinese resistance group. On her way to freedom she must fight against Japanese soldiers, ninjas, a killer geisha, Nazis, and the evil General of the Japanese imperial army.
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Shanghai
Shanghai 🇹🇭 Thailand The 1940s The 1930sAn American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.
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