11 Films & TV Shows Set In Shaanxi Province
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Legend of the Demon Cat
Shaanxi Province 🇯🇵 Japan The 8th CenturyLove. Death. Revenge. — During the Late Tang Dynasty, a manor is invaded by a demon cat and a sense of unrest befalls the capital of Changan. A poet is charged with investigating the case and meets up with a monk. The two work together and pull apart the thread of clues to reveal a history of truths leading to the events.
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White Vengeance
Shaanxi Province The 3rd Century BCWhite Vengeance tells the story of two brothers contending for supremacy during the fall of the Qin Dynasty, which ruled Imperial China from 221 to 206 BC. As rebels rose, the nation fell into chaos. Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, became leaders of the rebellious army, and also became sworn brothers in battle.Xiang Yu and Liu Bang are close friends who both serve King Huai of Chu. King Huai uses a plot, saying that whoever can subvert the Qin kingdom in Guanzhong would be the Lord Qin, in order to benefit from the competition between Xiang Yu and Liu Bang. Xiang Yu is over-confident. He fights against the main force of Qin army, and entrusts Liu Bang with Yu Ji, the woman he loves.Liu Bang expresses his love to Yu Ji and takes the chance to invade Guanzhong first when most of Qin army is outside fighting against Xiang Yu’s army.
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Weaving Girl
Shaanxi ProvinceDiagnosed with cancer and unable to afford treatment, a woman decides to leave her unhappy marriage search for her first love in Beijing. — Li Li, intelligent young woman is working in a mill Xian'an. The company knows the difficulties. Her husband, who worked in the same company, was among the first laid off and has launched a small business (fish). They have a little boy, Bing Bing. Tired, Li Li will visit the hospital. The verdict: acute leukemia. The bone marrow is financially out of reach. Rest chemotherapy less effective but require her husband to sell the family home. In addition, Li Li needs a little freedom to live a little for herself and get answers before ... She goes to Beijing to visit the one she was in love ten years ago, and who was not accepted by her parents.
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Night Train
Shaanxi Province The 2000sA woman employed performing state-sanctioned executions unknowingly becomes romantically involved with the husband of the last woman she executed.
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Blind Mountain
Shaanxi Province The 1990sBlind Mountain follows a young woman, Bai Xuemei, in the early 1990s who recently graduated from college and attempts to find work to help pay for her brother's education. In the process, she is drugged, kidnapped and sold as a bride to a villager in the Qinling Mountains of China's Shaanxi province. Trapped in the fiercely traditional town, the young woman finds that her avenues of escape are all blocked. As she searches for allies, including a young boy, a school teacher and a mailman, she suffers from being raped by her "husband" and continued beatings at the hands of the villagers, her husband, and her husbands' parents.
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Uniform
Shaanxi ProvinceDiao Yinan's critically acclaimed film, well-shot in DV and set against the fascinating backdrop of modern China, stars Liang Hongli as a struggling, recently unemployed young factory worker who must return to his family's laundrette, where he 'borrows' a police officer's shirt and begins successfully impersonating an officer of the law.
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Rhapsody of Spring
Beijing Shaanxi Province Xinjiang The 1960s The 1970sTracing the fascinating, real-life saga of one of China's most revered composers, master storyteller Teng Wenji sweeps us into China's intellectual and artistic coming of age during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). As a young composer, Zhao Liming (Shao Bing) struggles with a constellation of opposing forces: personal ambitions vs. communal obligation, romantic love vs. loyal friendship, modern music vs. traditional.
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Decisive Engagement: The LiaoShen Campaign
Heilongjiang Province Jilin Province Liaoning Province Shaanxi ProvinceFirst part of the Decisive Engagement trilogy. Directed by Pingfen Li et al.
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Yellow Earth
Shaanxi Province The 1930s The 1940sYellow earth focuses on the story of a Communist soldier who is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns that the happy songs he was sent to collect do not exist; the songs he finds are about hardship and suffering. He returns to the Army, but promises to come back for the young girl, Cuiqiao, who has been spellbound by his talk of the freedom women have under Communist rule and who wants to join the Communist Army.
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The Heroic Ones
Henan Province Shaanxi Province Shanxi Province The 9th CenturyA Mogul king decides to take stealthy action to help overpower his greatest rivals. He chooses nine out thirteen of his loyal generals (who he treats as sons) to embark on the mission. However, jealously amongst them sparks a treacherous family feud that could lead to catastrophic consequences for all involved.
