How's this for a streak: Mainland Chinese film producers The Huayi Brothers are very likely the only production house in the world that can claim - at least claim honestly - that they've never had a film lost money. And that trend looks likely to continue with The Message, a darkly slick espionage thriller from Chen Kuo-Fu (Double Vision) and Gao Qunshu (Tokyo Trial) with Zhou Xun heading up and all star cast.
1942, Nanking. Following a series of assassination attempts on officials of the Japanese-controlled puppet government, the Japanese spy chief gathers a group of suspects in a mansion house for questioning. A tense game of cat and mouse ensues as the Chinese code-breaker attempts to send out a crucial message while protecting his/her own identity.
We've run early teasers for this one in the past but the full trailer has recently arrived, is very impressive, and lurks below the break.
ill second that comment for sure!
Hopefully the trailer doesn't do the film justice.
It makes it look like just another exploitation film set during the Japanese occupation and I for one have seen enough of those.
Maybe the next trailer will show a bit more of the plot.
Look's nice.
Could still go either way, to my mind. As with all the other media they've released the money is obviously there on screen, but I didn't think that was an especially great [i]trailer[/i] and if the film's essentially two hours of 'Tell us the truth, Chinese worm!' / 'Never, Japanese pig!' / *dzzzzzzt* etc., etc. I'll be somewhat disappointed. Could be the snippets of dialogue would clear that up, could be not. The talent and the production values mean I'm still very much interested, I just have misgivings regardless.
The trailer was something like "Brourne: the Chinese Identity". i think this is going to turn out to be a glorified proapaganda propaganda movie. Like the awful 3ip-man". guessing from this trailer, the movie doesn't even pretend to be at the same level of "lust, Caution"
dang, never noticed before that zhou xun's the only one who doesn't automatically go into that academy-trained, arch theatrical diction & manner of speaking. and (my fella countryfolks) love to call korean actors "overacting hams"? (stroking chin...)
Billy is that you?
Actually Zhou Xun attended Zhejiang Arts Academy.