In a world filled with secrets, solving a mystery can be murder.
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and plot-driven.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
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Cast
- John CusackPaul Soames
- Gong LiAnna Lan-Ting
- Chow Yun-FatAnthony Lan-Ting
- David MorseRichard Astor
- Ken WatanabeTanaka
- Franka PotenteLeni Müller
- Jeffrey Dean MorganConner
- Hugh BonnevilleBen Sanger
- Hon Ping TangChen
- Benedict WongJuso Kita
Crew
- Mikael HåfströmDirector
- Hossein AminiWriter
- Benoît DelhommeDirector of Photography
- Klaus BadeltOriginal Music Composer
- Peter BoyleEditor
- Kevin TentEditor
- Donna GigliottiProducer
- Barry MendelProducer
- Jake MyersProducer
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