Filming began on The Opium War on August 8, 1996, and it was released in mid-1997. The 74-year-old Xie Jin not only put Hengdian on the map by making his last film there, he also praised Hengdian to all his friends, and even brought heavyweight director Chen Kaige to Hengdian in person.
1996 年 8 月 8 日《鴉片戰爭》開鏡，1997 年中上映，74 歲的謝晉在此完成他過世前的最後一部作品，拍完電影後，他逢人必說橫店的好，還把重量級的導演陳凱歌請到了橫店。