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Jade Goddess of Mercy (2003)

Where Jade Goddess of Mercy says it takes place, and where it was really shot.

A Beijing love story whose real secret lives in a Yunnan border town that exists only in the film

Scenes and places

Yang Rui falls for the mysterious woman

Yang Rui, a Beijing executive bored with easy conquests, becomes obsessed with the reclusive He Yanhong. She rejects him, then nurses him back to health after she kicks him in the head, and the two become friends.

Set in Beijing — The city where Yang Rui works and where He Yanhong lives under a new name. Google Maps · Apple Maps

The jealous boss springs the trap

Yang Rui's scorned boss has her spies reveal that He Yanhong has a child, costs her the job and frames him for a kickback that briefly puts him in prison. He Yanhong arranges a lawyer to free him, and he tracks her down to learn her real name is An Xin.

Set in Beijing — Still the Beijing setting; the plot summary names no specific site. Google Maps · Apple Maps

An Xin's other life in Yunnan

As a rising police officer engaged to a journalist, An Xin has a brief, intense affair with Mao Jie, neither knowing the other's real profession. A drug sting reveals he belongs to a drug-dealing family, and she must testify against him.

Set in Nande (fictional Yunnan border town) — A fictional small town in Yunnan Province, southern China, where An Xin served as a police officer.

Filmed at Tengchong, Yunnan — The crew filmed in Tengchong in spring 2003; the exact streets and buildings are not recorded in the sources found. Google Maps · Apple Maps

How to get there:

Filmed at Tengchong stilt-house lodging — An Xin's lodging (stilt house) Google Maps · Apple Maps

Characters

• An Xin — A woman hiding in Beijing under another name, with a child and a past in Yunnan.
• Yang Rui — A bored Beijing executive who falls for the reclusive woman and is pulled into her story.
• Mao Jie — The man from a drug-dealing family whose fling with An Xin changes both their lives.

Questions answered on the map

• Where was the film's fictional Yunnan border town really filmed?