China Synopsis
“Sometimes the greatest journey is the distance between two people.”
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
Audience Engagement
1,060 audience reviews — more than 94% of China films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 83th percentile among China films.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with The Painted Veil. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Romance + Drama in China
85 China titles in our catalog blend the Romance and Drama genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding The Painted Veil itself).
The 2005–2007 China Window
Among 58 China films we catalog from this window, The Painted Veil places #9 — near the top of its class.
The 2000s China Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in China, 142 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The Painted Veil premiered alongside 16 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 2h 5m runtime, production spent $155K per minute on screen and earned $215K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 16 other China films in 2006.
The 150th 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 Painted Veil, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- nun · 3
- convent (nunnery) · 3
- cholera · 2
- loveless marriage · 2
- foreign aid · 1
- bacteriologist · 1
- shanghai · 26
- doctor · 25
- infidelity · 22
- 1920s · 18
- epidemic · 7
- based on novel or book · 288
- china · 127
- china · 127
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #237 of 946 China films indexed here (75th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.6 points above the China average of 6.7/10.
Among China Romance productions specifically: #23 of 125 (top 18%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | China |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Canada, China, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Spoken Languages | French, Mandarin, English |
| Production Companies | Yari Film Group, Emotion Pictures, The Mark Gordon Company, Class 5 Films, Warner China Film HG Corporation |
| Runtime | 2h 5m |
| Release Date | December 9, 2006 |
| IMDb | tt0446755 |