6 Films & TV Shows Set In Zhejiang Province

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  White Snake II: The Tribulation of the Green Snake

  Zhejiang Province The 12th Century

  Dependence arises from the previous life. — Endless abyss, ruins, foreign objects, entanglement, everything indicates that this catastrophe about Xiaoqing is coming. The sequel to Light Chaser's animated film about the legend of the White Snake.

  Released in 2021 • 131 minutes
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  The Chinese Widow

  Zhejiang Province Tokyo Prefecture The 1940s The 1930s

  It’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.

  Released in 2017 • 97 minutes
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  Avalokitesvara

  Shanxi Province Zhejiang Province The 9th Century

  In the time of the Tang Dynasty, Yu Xiufeng, a porcelain maker from Mount Meicen, makes a ceramic statue of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara to consecrate at Mount Wutai to protect the princeling Li Yi.

  Released in 2013 • 117 minutes
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  The Great Military March Forward: Fight for Nanjing, Shanghai and Hangzhou

  Jiangsu Province Shanghai Zhejiang Province The 1940s

  Released in 1999 • 114 minutes
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  Qiu Jin

  Beijing Zhejiang Province Tokyo Prefecture The 1890s The 1900s

  Biopic of Qiu Jin (1877-1907), early Chinese feminist and martyred revolutionary.

  Released in 1983 • 136 minutes
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  Spring Silkworms

  Zhejiang Province

  This early classic of Golden Age Shanghai cinema echoes Visconti's classic La Terra Trema in its beautifully rendered story of a humble silk-farming family struggling to be free of debt to exploitative middlemen.

  Released in 1933 • 100 minutes