Location: Tao Hua Dao Island

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Location: Tao Hua Dao Island

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The Resistance were filming in the exotic small and beautiful island of Tao Hua Dao or in english It means Peach Blossom Island that has become a tourist attraction and also nicknamed little Japan. It contains beautiful environment of small mountains, clean ocean and peach Blossom trees. Before the filming the island was uknown but afterward the films popularity Tao Hua has got many visitors and even others has start to film there including music videos TV series and recently a Hong Kong movie has been filmed there but it all started with The Resistance.

What Tao Hua Dao has that is unique is an very old village that is still intact owned by the Zhejiang province museum founder and above it is an emperors palace also owned by the museum. It's perfect for use of samurai movies, dynasty movies and fantasy or fiction stories like this. Most part of the movie was filmed here, other locations were 81 studios in Beijing, and Xianshan film studios in Ningbo at Zhejiang Province.

During the filming in Tao Hua Island, there were some concerns over the tsunami that stroke Japan on march 2011. Since the island is located between China and Japan it would be possible if the tsunami would continue to China it would reach the Island. Luckily there were no 2nd wave but it did hurried the schedule.

The film crew and cast were entirely Chinese and some were from Taiwan, there were only two foreigners casted in the movie one from USA and one from Sweden. The stunt crew were from Beijing as well, two acting veteran were cast for small roles, Li Po Lung known as the monkey king from "journey to the west" and Zhang Ming Fan known from "Red Army" and "Purple Day" and the child pop singer Qui Wu Tong appeared in a role here. After filming two months in the island, a press conference was held lead by the mayor of Tao Hua Dao and some foreign ministers from the government introduced to every tv news broadcast channel in China as they honored the first movie to be shot in the location of peach Blossom island, the forgotten isle has become now a legend and known as Resistance island. The Resistance island is now legendary stamp and a beginning of a new location of film making. As the tourist can now visit where the universe of the resistance began.