China No Man's Land returned 18.0× its production cost, earning $41.8M against a $2.3M budget — one of the highest-return China films in our catalog.
Synopsis
无人区
Pan Xiao, a young lawyer, goes to a rural small village settled in the western desert lands of China to handle the case of a falcon poacher who has ran over a policeman. Pan wins the case through sophisticated reasoning and forces the poacher to give him his car as a reward. Then, he just drives back home, but the return will not be an easy one.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 1h 58m runtime, production spent $20K per minute on screen and earned $354K per minute back.
Drama + Crime in China
56 China titles in our catalog blend the Drama and Crime genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding No Man's Land itself).
The 2012–2014 China Window
No Man's Land holds position #20 of 93 China films in the 2012–2014 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2010s China Landscape
No Man's Land premiered in 2013 — a quieter year for China cinema with only 26 titles in our catalog. The 2010s overall landed 515 films and series across 10 years of activity.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 25 other China films in 2013.
The 339th China title from China we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1935).
Our China catalog contains 946 titles in total (747 films).
Audience Engagement
72 audience reviews — more than 71% of China films in our index.
Review volume (71th percentile) outruns trending popularity (55th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on No Man's Land, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- gas station · 2
- car journey · 2
- poacher · 2
- deserted road · 1
- road movie · 16
- desert · 9
- china · 127
- lawyer · 31
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #431 of 946 China films indexed here (54th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among China Drama productions specifically: #273 of 547 (top 50%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | China |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Chinese |
| Production Companies | Beijing Guoli Changsheng Movies & TV Productions Co., China Film Group, 东阳坏猴子影视文化传播有限公司, Emperor Film and Entertainment |
| Runtime | 1h 58m |
| Release Date | December 3, 2013 |
| IMDb | tt1456660 |