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Drama, War  •  2025  •  122 min

Gezhi Town (2025)

Gezhi Town poster

Gezhi Town (2025)

Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Traditional
Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Low
Family Values: Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
6.9

Overview

Gezhi Town follows a Chinese machinist who leads refugees and straggler soldiers in defending their remote mountain settlement against Japanese forces during the Sino-Japanese War. The premise is built on civilian ingenuity, collective determination, and protection of home and family. Those values drive a Traditional label more than any political ideology does. The story presents multigenerational family bonds, homeland defense, and community solidarity as natural goods worth fighting for. There is no Western-style identity commentary, no ideological reframing of the resistance, and no religious thread pulling the story in another direction. The patriotic war drama genre in Chinese cinema tends to land here, and this one fits the pattern cleanly.

Starring Cast

Zhan Xiao  •   Yuchang Peng  •   Yiran Zhou

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Traditional

Primary

Political: Leans Right
Confidence: High

The film's core subject of ordinary Chinese civilians and stragglers defending a remote mountain town against Japanese forces during the Sino-Japanese War anchors it in patriotic resistance to external aggression. The narrative solution—refusing retreat and using civilian skills and collective determination to fight—emphasizes individual responsibility, homeland defense, and national survival over revolutionary or ideological reframing.

Diversity: Low
Confidence: High

The film features an entirely Chinese cast portraying Chinese characters in a historical wartime setting focused on civilian resistance against Japanese forces. The story emphasizes ordinary people's survival and defense of their community through humor and ingenuity, presenting traditional Chinese identities in a neutral-to-positive light without any Western-style identity critiques or recastings.

Secondary

Family Values: Leans Traditional
Confidence: High

The film centers on a craftsman who flees wartime destruction with his wife, young son, and great-grandfather, settling into a multigenerational household that forms the core of a peaceful refugee community before external threats arise; family bonds and the drive to protect home and elders are portrayed positively as sources of stability and motivation.

LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Low

The film centers on a heterosexual family and civilian community defending their home during the Sino-Japanese War, with no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes present.

Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low

No transgender characters or themes appear in this war drama centered on a machinist and refugees defending their mountain town against Japanese forces during the Sino-Japanese War.

Female Combat: N/R

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Low

Original fictional war drama with no source material featuring canon characters of established gender. All named roles align with actors' genders and story context; no swaps from prior adaptations, history, or legacy characters.

Race Swap: No
Confidence: High

Original fictional Chinese war drama set during the Sino-Japanese War with all major Chinese characters portrayed by Chinese actors; no adaptations or historical figures with mismatched racial casting.

Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: Low

Not depicted in the film.

Viewer Rating Breakdown

6.9

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

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7.0
The Movie Database logo
6.9

Critic Ratings

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N/A
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N/A

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