The Mermaid

A real estate project encroaches on mermaid real estate. Xuan’s bulldozers spur mermaid envoy Shan into a land-based courtship that soon collides with deeper environmental stakes. A fairy-tale romance finds pragmatic teeth in a final act that sets fish against fracking.

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Stephen Chow directed The Mermaid in 2016. See Stephen Chow's full filmography, where to start with Stephen Chow, or where to go after you've seen everything by Stephen Chow.

The Mermaid was released in 2016 (ZH original-language production), with a runtime of 94 minutes.