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Shanghai

provincial-level municipality in China

China · 31.2325, 121.4692

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Shanghai is recorded as a filming location for 41 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level: somewhere in Shanghai, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 30 more. 2 video games are also set here.

1 production was filmed at 8 places inside Shanghai rather than at Shanghai itself: listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“Scenes with the principal actors were not filmed on location in Shanghai, but in the UK.”
Skyfall (2012) · Wikipedia

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Shanghai
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Movies and TV series filmed in Shanghai

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Shanghai as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list, each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

And 25 more, per Wikipedia:

Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in Shanghai

1 production shot at 8 places inside Shanghai, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Shanghai itself.

Set here

Video games that take place here. A game is filmed nowhere, so this is where the story is set rather than where a camera stood: a different claim from everything above, and kept under its own heading for that reason.

Set here, per Wikipedia

Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in Shanghai, where Wikidata’s narrative-location statement stops at the country. Still a setting and not a shoot, and still a sentence rather than a statement: two steps from the strongest evidence on this atlas, and labelled at both.

And 10 more, per Wikipedia:

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Shanghai?

97 productions are recorded as filmed in Shanghai, 1 of them at places inside it, including Skyfall (2012), Her (2013) and Mission: Impossible III (2006). 55 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Shanghai?

Skyfall (2012), covered by 78 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Shanghai?

Shanghai is in China. Its coordinates are 31.2325, 121.4692.

What other filming locations are near Shanghai?

Nanjing Road (under 1 km), Shanghai International Settlement (1 km north), Majestic Theatre (2 km west), The Bund (2 km east) and 2 more, all within 40 km and listed on this page with photographs.

Where does this information come from?

Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by MasaneMiyaPA, CC BY-SA 4.0.