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Once Upon a Time in China II (1992)

Where Once Upon a Time in China II says it takes place, and where it was really shot.

A 1895 Canton story in which the film's own places went unrecorded: nine story sites, no documented filming locations

Scenes and places

The train from Foshan (1895)

Wong Fei-hung boards a train from Foshan to Canton to attend a medical seminar, with 13th Aunt and his apprentice Leung Foon at his side.

Set in Foshan — The starting point of Wong Fei-hung's train trip to Canton. Google Maps · Apple Maps

Foshan is Wong Fei-hung's home town in Guangdong.

Protests in the streets of Canton (1895)

Wong arrives in a city on edge: crowds protest the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki while a xenophobic cult attacks Westerners.

Set in Canton (Guangzhou) — The city streets where protesters object to the Treaty of Shimonoseki. Google Maps · Apple Maps

Canton is the Guangdong provincial capital, a major treaty-era trading port.

The White Lotus attack on 13th Aunt (1895)

13th Aunt tries to take a photo of the cult and is nearly captured. Wong arrives, fights the cult members and saves her.

Set in Unnamed location — A Canton street where the White Lotus Sect almost captures 13th Aunt.

The film does not name this street; the photo shows Qing-era Canton's Thirteen Hongs district for period feel only.

The medical seminar (1895)

Wong lectures on acupuncture while the Western-trained Dr. Sun Wen translates, until flaming arrows crash through the walls and he escapes with Leung and Sun.

Set in Unnamed location — The building where Wong lectures on acupuncture to a mostly foreign audience.

The film does not name the building, and no filming record was found.

Rescuing the children at Tongwen Guan (1895)

Just as Wong is about to leave for Foshan, he learns the cult is attacking the Tongwen Guan school. He rushes over and saves the children.

Set in Tongwen Guan — A school where Chinese children study foreign languages, attacked by the White Lotus Sect.

The Tongwen Guan was a real language school in Qing China (Wikidata Q6143296, no coordinates).

The inn that turns the children away (1895)

The innkeeper will not let the children stay, afraid the White Lotus Sect will make trouble for him. Wong has to find them shelter elsewhere.

Set in Unnamed location — An inn whose keeper refuses to shelter the rescued children.

The film does not name the inn.

Wong and the officer at the government office (1895)

Wong asks the officials to shelter the children. The military officer Nap-lan tests Wong's staff skill in a spar and is impressed, but refuses.

Set in Unnamed location — The local government office where Wong asks for shelter for the children.

The yamen was the office of a Qing local official; the film's own is unnamed.

The besieged British consulate (1895)

Leung and 13th Aunt hide the children inside. There Wong meets Sun Wen and Lu Haodong, and learns they plan to overthrow the Qing government. Nap-lan's soldiers press at the gate.

Set in British consulate, Canton — The British consulate, under siege by the White Lotus Sect, where the children hide.

A foreign consulate in Canton, the film's refuge from the cult.

The White Lotus base and the pier (1895)

Wong and Lu are forced to the cult's base to confront Priest Gao. Later the story ends toward a pier at dawn, where Sun Wen waits.

Set in Unnamed location — The White Lotus Sect's base, then the pier where Sun Wen waits.

The film does not name the base; the photo shows Canton's harbor of the same era for period feel only.

Characters

• Wong Fei-hung — A Foshan martial arts master and doctor who travels to Canton for a medical seminar.
• 13th Aunt — Wong's romantic interest, who travels with him and tries to photograph the cult.
• Sun Wen (Sun Yat-sen) — A Western-trained Chinese doctor who translates for Wong and belongs to an underground movement.
• Nap-lan Yun-seut — A military officer who spars with Wong and hunts the revolutionaries.