Behind The Scenes Production Photos
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Filming in Shanghai
February 11, 2007
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| smoke rises from within "Japanese leased territory" | Lugang Bridge which separates British and Japanese leased territories | half-burned roadblocks | flyers for missing people - mostly missing children |
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| British guards on the south side of "Suzhou River" | David Wenham with the director | Jonathan Meyers with "soldiers" | extras |
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| a burned vehicle | a shop on "Nanking Road" that was "opened" for the filming | a boat on the "Suzhou River" | the tramcar is a symbol of the Nanking Road in old times |
Filming in Hengdian, Zhejiang Province
December 2006 - February 2007
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| Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Radha Mitchell with the children on a Hengdian set |
a set in Hengdian | |
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| Chow Yun-Fat in Xiandu | the orphanage set in Tiecheng, Xiandu | ||
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(1) children having lunch on set (2) 12 years old Zhai Xiaoguang, a student in a performing school, is from Hebei Province (3) this is not an ordinary sheep - it "acted" in Dunhuang scenes too | ||
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| Michelle at the Hengdian filming set | Michelle with director Roger Spottiswoode | ||
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| Spottiswoode, Michelle and Meyers | Michelle and Jonathan Meyers on the tea scene | |||
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1. Director Roger Spottiswoode on a Hengdian filming set
2. Michelle (right) at Hengdian filming set in a raining day, Decemebr 2006
3. Chow Yun-Fat (right) in the Gansu filming
4. "time out" for naughty children on set, Gansu
Filming in Gansu Province
November 13 - December 6, 2006
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| filming at Yadan land formations | creating "sandstorm" | ||
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| Jonathan Meyers | filming in Dunhuang desert | ||
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a trian explosion scene and fleeing civilians
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| Chow Yun-Fat and the children | |||
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| Jonathan Meyers on set | Meyers, Chow and director | actress Jin Shuyuan at interview |
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(1) Having a Chinese lunch (2) Lanzhou actor Shen Bin (left) plays the chief of police (3) filming in the mountains (4)director Roger Spottiswoode demonstrating a scene to actors (5)Spottiswoode with a special "actor" | ||||
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) Interior of the Governor's building set up for the KMT period |
) Liancheng streets decorated as in 30s |
) Film props |
) Buddha statue made to look old |
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) Dong Da Si filming set |
| Dunhuang children playing the orphans | Director Roger Spottiswoode with male lead Jonathan Meyers | ||
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the old Governor building of the Mongol Chieftain Lu Family