980 Films & TV Shows Set In China
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Sorrows of the Forbidden City
🇨🇳 China The 19th CenturyThe film focused on a conflict between Empress Dowager Cixi, her son Guangxi (the nominal emperor) and his wife, Zhenfei.
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Far Away Love
Hubei Province Shanghai The 1930s The 1940sA college professor gives a village girl a make-over.
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Remorse at Death
🇨🇳 China The 12th CenturyThe story of two people who were forced to marry each without sincere feelings, resulting in a story of life and death.
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Intrigue
🇨🇳 ChinaHe's out to SMASH the world's dirtiest racket — Dishonorably discharged from the Army Air Corps, Brad Dunham (George Raft) disconsolately decides to try his luck with Shanghai's postwar black market. Teaming with the treacherous Tamara Baranoff (June Havoc), Dunham prospers in his newly-found illicit profession, much to the dismay of his best friend, reporter Mark Andrews (Tom Tully). When Tamara has the troublesome Andrews murdered, Dunham realizes the folly of his behavior and works overtime to squash the black market for good and all.
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The Spring River Flows East
Shanghai The 1930s The 1940s1930's China. The village of a poor family is taken over by the occupying Japanese army. One son, Zhongliang, leaves his wife and young son to join a medic group for the Chinese Army. The other son, Zhangmin goes into hiding to protect his family. The focus shifts back and forth from the brothers' parents and Zhongliang's wife and son to Zhongliang's newfound life of luxury in a town not too far away. The plight of Zhongliang's mother, his wife, Sufan and her son, Kongeson is contrasted with Zhongliang's rise in a flourishing company.
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Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon
Shanghai The 1930s The 1940sA college girl and a musician go to the front of the anti-Japanese war and fall in love.
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Dr. Kotnis Ki Amar Kahani
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sDuring the Japanese invasion of China, a young Indian doctor joins the Chinese resistance, meets and courts a Chinese girl, cures a virulent plague, and is captured by a Japanese platoon...
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China Sky
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sIn a hill city of war-torn China, the American mission hospital is run by Dr. Gray Thompson and Dr. Sara Durand, who secretly loves him. Then Gray comes back from the USA with new equipment ...and new wife Louise, who is jealous of Sara, shows herself a coward in the first Japanese air raid, and wants to take Gray back to the States. Others have similar troubles; and Japanese prisoner Colonel Yasuda manipulates them for his own ends.
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God Is My Co-Pilot
Yunnan Province The 1930s The 1940sRobert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over The Hump into China. In China, he persuades General Chennault to let him fly with the famed Flying Tigers, the heroic band of airmen who'd been fighting the Japanese long before Pearl Harbor. Scott gets his chance to fight, ultimately engaging in combat with the deadly Japanese pilot known as Tokyo Joe.
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China's Little Devils
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sOut of the raging heart of China storms the first story of these reckless young guerillas... — In this propaganda film, a courageous group of Chinese children risk their lives to assist downed American pilots escape the ruthless Japanese oppressors.
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The Keys of the Kingdom
Scotland 🇨🇳 China The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1880s The 1870sTHE PICTURE THAT TOUCHES NEW HEIGHTS OF EMOTION — A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.
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Why We Fight: The Battle of China
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sThe sixth film illustrates Japan's occupation of China, including Madame Chiang Kai-Shek's stirring address before congress, the rape of Naking, the great 2,000 mile migration, and Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers.
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Dragon Seed
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sM-G-M's immortal production of the great novel — The lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. And heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against Japanese Invaders.
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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sAs a Secret Wife...She Doesn't Do Bad! — A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
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China
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sAlan Ladd and twenty girls - trapped by the rapacious Japs! — Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil to the invading Japanese army. Cynical about the sufferings of the Chinese, Jones meets compassionate teacher Carolyn Grant while travelling cross-country to Shanghai. Sparks fly between these strong-willed characters, neither budging an inch. But when Jones witnesses a Japanese atrocity, his feelings toward his customers (and Carolyn) begin to change...
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Behind the Rising Sun
🇯🇵 Japan 🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sThe year's most timely story. — A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.
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Night Plane from Chungking
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sWithout lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border. Passengers include a European of unknown nationality, a missionary a French officer, and a White Russian. There is also an ancient Chinese lady on an important diplomatic mission to Indian and her traveling companion. The trip is halted when Japanese planes bomb the road and hit a munitions truck and kill many Chinese soldiers. The Chinese commander puts the wounded soldiers on the bus and directs it to a nearby secret airport where the officer in charge is an American attached to the Chinese Air Force.
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Flying Tigers
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sStrong Brave Men Flying in the Face of Death that We may Live ... — Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into World War II. Gordon must send his outnumbered band of fighter pilots out against overwhelming odds while juggling the disparate personalities and problems of his fellow flyers.
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Lady from Chungking
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sBLOODY REBELLION AGAINST SAVAGE CONQUERORS! — In World War II, Chinese guerrillas fight against the occupying Japanese forces. A young woman is the secret leader of the villagers, who plot to rescue two downed Flying Tigers pilots who are currently in the custody of the Japanese. The rescue mission takes on even more importance with the arrival of a Japanese general, which signals a major offensive taking place in the area.
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Destination Unknown
🇨🇳 ChinaTwo Against Jap Treachery! — Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking.
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Inside Fighting China
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sThis wartime newsreel from 1942 documents the efforts of China to deal with Japanese aggression.
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Secret Agent of Japan
Shanghai Hawaii The 1940sNow! The First, Inside Story Behind The "Stab In The Back"! — World War II espionage drama, starring Preston Foster and Lynn Bari.
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The Shanghai Gesture
ShanghaiMystery-lure of the Far East! — A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.
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Princess Iron Fan
🇨🇳 China The 7th CenturyThe story was liberally adapted from a short sequence in the popular Chinese folk tale Journey to the West. Princess Iron Fan is a main character. Specifically, the film focused on the duel between the Monkey King and a vengeful princess, whose fan is desperately needed to quench the flames that surround a peasant village.
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