China Synopsis
“Conquer your fate.”
Prince Amleth is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, who kidnaps the boy's mother. Two decades later, Amleth is now a Viking who's on a mission to save his mother, kill his uncle and avenge his father.
Audience Engagement
3,589 audience reviews — more than 97% of China films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 98th percentile among China films.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with The Northman. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
4 sharedInto the Sun
★ 4.4 · Japan
3 sharedCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
★ 7.4 · China
3 sharedLone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
★ 7.2 · Japan
2 sharedAdipurush
★ 5.5 · India
2 sharedBerserk: The Golden Age Arc I – The Egg of the King
★ 7.2 · Japan
2 sharedBerserk: The Golden Age Arc II – The Battle for Doldrey
★ 7.3 · Japan
Action + Adventure in China
135 China titles in our catalog blend the Action and Adventure genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding The Northman itself).
The 2021–2023 China Window
The Northman holds position #67 of 160 China films in the 2021–2023 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2020s China Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2020s in China, 216 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The Northman premiered alongside 41 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 2h 17m runtime, production spent $511K per minute on screen and earned $508K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 41 other China films in 2022.
The 889th China title from China we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1935).
Our China catalog contains 946 titles in total (747 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on The Northman, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- death of father · 5
- fate · 5
- fantasy · 5
- graphic violence · 5
- based on myths · 4
- legends or folklore · 4
- 10th century · 4
- iceland · 3
- father murder · 2
- northern ireland · 2
- viking · 1
- hamlet · 1
- nordic · 1
- viking age · 1
- muscular men · 1
- brutality · 15
- king · 10
- prince · 8
- revenge · 210
- sword fight · 56
- gore · 51
- sword · 36
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #298 of 946 China films indexed here (68th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.4 points above the China average of 6.7/10.
Among China Action productions specifically: #72 of 319 (top 23%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | China |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | China, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Spoken Languages | English, Icelandic |
| Production Companies | New Regency Pictures, Focus Features, Perfect World Pictures, Square Peg |
| Runtime | 2h 17m |
| Release Date | April 7, 2022 |
| IMDb | tt11138512 |
| Official Site | www.focusfeatures.com |