The Patriot Yue Fei

The Patriot Yue Fei
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Also known as	The Last Hero[1]
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	精忠岳飛
Simplified Chinese	精忠岳飞
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jīng Zhōng Yuè Fēi
Genre	Historical drama
Based on	Shuo Yue Quan Zhuan by Qian Cai
Screenplay by	Ting Shan-hsi Stanley Tong
Directed by	Kuk Kwok-leung Zou Jicheng
Starring	Huang Xiaoming Ruby Lin Gallen Lo Allen Ting Cheng Pei-pei Steve Yoo Shao Bing Wu Xiubo Cecilia Liu Viann Zhang Yu Rongguang
Theme music composer	Wakin Chau
Composer	Nathan Wang
Country of origin	China
Original language	Mandarin
No. of episodes	69
Production
Producer	Stanley Tong
Production location	China
Running time	45 minutes per episode
Production companies	China Film Group Corporation Huang Xiaoming Studio
Budget	US $30 million[2]
Original release
Network	Anhui TV Zhejiang TV Tianjin TV Shandong TV
Release	4 July (2013-07-04) – 29 July 2013 (2013-07-29)
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The Patriot Yue Fei is a 2013 Chinese television series based on the life of Yue Fei, a Song dynasty general widely regarded as a patriot and culture hero in Chinese culture for his role in defending the Song empire against the Jurchen campaigns. While the plot is based on historical sources and descendants of the general served as consultants, it also includes elements of fiction and draws ideas from the novel General Yue Fei (說岳全傳) and other folktales on his life.

Huang Xiaoming stars as the title character in the biopic, which started shooting in 2011. The budget of the series exceeded ¥200 million (roughly US $30 million).^[2] The first episode premiered on 4 July 2013.^[3]