Zhang Ziyi in a true-crime epic? The 1940s Shanghai murder case that split a nation wide open.
A sprawling true-crime case illuminating the fates of ordinary people amid the tides of changing times.
Acting
Zhang Ziyi's most ferocious work since 'Memoirs of a Geisha'.
Direction
Chan builds the case like a noose tightening, frame by frame.
Production
1940s Shanghai recreated with suffocating period detail.
Director
Peter Chan Ho-Sun
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on the 1945 'Zhan Zhou Case,' a real murder trial that sparked China's first major feminist legal debate and directly influenced post-war women's rights legislation.
Peter Chan filmed the courtroom scenes in chronological order so Zhang Ziyi could physically deteriorate as Zhan Zhou's hope eroded—her final scene was shot in one 11-minute unbroken take.
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