Feng sheng (2009)

Directors:

Kuo-fu Chen
Qunshu Gao

Writers:

Kuo-fu Chen (screenplay)
Jia Mai (novel)

Release Date:

22 September 2009 (China)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Thriller | War

Plot:

1942, Nanjing (Nanking). Following a series of assassination attempts on officials of the Japanese-controlled puppet government...

Plot Keywords:

Spy | Japanese Occupation | WWII | Code Breaking | Espionage

Awards:

6 nominations

Cast

Yihong Duan
Xiaoming Huang	...	Takeda / Wu Tian
Bingbing Li	...	Li Ning Yu
Weiwei Liu
Dahong Ni	...	Lao Bie
Zhaoqi Shi
Alec Su	...	Bai Xiaonian
Zhiwen Wang	...	Wang Daoxiang
Gang Wu
Da Ying	...	Jin Shenghuo
Hanyu Zhang	...	Wu Zhiguo
Yibai Zhang
Xun Zhou	...	Gu Xiaomeng
Xu Zhu

Also Known As:

The Message (International: English title)

Country:

China

Language:

Mandarin

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Singapore:NC-16 | Hong Kong:IIB

Filming Locations:

Dalian, China

Company:

Huayi Brothers & Taihe Film Investment

Chinese movie makers still don't know how to tell stories

Recommend you to read the novel written by Maijia, the movie adaption is much less cunning than the original one. Bai Xiaonian and Jin Shenghuo are too early to dead, making the answer of the puzzle too easy to guess, no challenge no surprise, that is a total failure for a suspense movie. I think to make the movie successful, it should leave the result to the last minute that out of everyone's expectation, and before that, it should make the situation as complex as possible and try to mislead the audience until reveal the truth reasonably at the end. So I still feel the adapter of the movie still does not know how to tell stories, just like many other movie writers in China. I don't know why the film company didn't invite Maijia to write the movie story?I believe he would have done a better job