China Synopsis
兰心大剧院
Iconic actress Jean Yu returns to Japanese-occupied China to star in a play directed by her former lover. However, her undercover work for the Allies soon places her life in grave danger.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Saturday Fiction. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Action + Drama in China
129 China titles in our catalog blend the Action and Drama genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Saturday Fiction itself).
The 2020–2022 China Window
Saturday Fiction holds position #114 of 181 China films in the 2020–2022 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2020s China Landscape
2021 was the decade’s peak output year for China — 83 titles released, including Saturday Fiction. Bars below show how the 2020s stacked up year by year (216 total).
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 82 other China films in 2021.
The 857th China title from China we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1935).
Our China catalog contains 946 titles in total (747 films).
Audience Engagement
15 audience reviews — more than 29% of China films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 25th percentile among China films.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Saturday Fiction, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- actress · 2
- shanghai · 26
- undercover · 13
- china · 127
- spy · 46
- 1940s · 35
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #450 of 946 China films indexed here (52nd percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among China Action productions specifically: #124 of 319 (top 39%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | China |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Chinese |
| Spoken Languages | Mandarin, English, French, Japanese |
| Production Companies | Uplink, YingFilms, Achtung Panda! |
| Runtime | 2h 7m |
| Release Date | October 15, 2021 |
| IMDb | tt8499638 |