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Hidden Blade
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[Available July 18 on various digital platforms.] Striking cinematography, choreography, sets, and costumes dominate Cheng Er's thrilling, award-winning, factually inspired, well-acted, multilayered, superbly written, complex, thought-provoking, stylized, nonlinear, violent, 132-minute thriller that begins in 1937 with the intense bombings of Guangzhou that lasted for about a year and then moves to 1941 through 1945 in Shanghai after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the Wang Jingwei regime declared war against the U.S. and Britain and follows a secret espionage network of spies and double agents (Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Yibo Wang, Chengpeng Dong, Chuanjun Wang, et al.) and their paramours (Shuying Jiang, Jingyi Zhang, and Xun Zhou) who gather classified data and kill traitors during WWII while most of the world was preoccupied with the Depression and largely ignored what was happening in China.

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2023
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