Full River Red (2023)
Director: Zhang Yimou · Writers: Zhang Yimou, Chen Yu
During China's Song Dynasty, a mysterious murder occurs at Chancellor Quin Hui's palace after meeting delegates from the neighboring Jin Dynasty. The members become embroiled not just in a murder mystery, but a larger conspiracy concerning the fate of the empire.
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Director
Zhang Yimou
Cast
Shen Teng
Zhang Da 
Jackson Yee
Sun Jun 
Zhang Yi
He Li 
Lei Jiayin
Qin Hui 
Yue Yunpeng
Wu Yichun 
Pan Binlong
Ding Sanwang 
Yu Ailei
Liu Xi 
Guo Jingfei
Wang Biao 
Ou Hao
Zheng Wan 
Wei Xiang
Ha Den 
Zhang Chi
Chen Liang 
Huang Yan
Hu Yong User Reviews (3)
When an ambassador is found stabbed to death, the Prime Minister "Qin Hui" (Jiayin Lei) orders an immediate investigation to be headed by his director "He Li" (Yi Zhang) and his deputy "Wu Yichun" (the quite charismatic Yunpeng Yue). Pretty quickly, this investigation has seen the killing of the Captain of the guard and his replacement by the young "Sun Jun" (Jackson Lee) who has alighted on a potential culprit in "Zhang Da" (Teng Shen). The Prime Minister has given the young man and his prisoner just two hours to get to the bottom of the killing and to retrieve a letter thought to have been contained in an ornate leather purse. For much of the first ninety minutes, this is quite a cleverly interwoven and characterful whodunit. Who to trust, who is behind the plot - what is contained in the letter? Who has read the letter? What might the beautiful courtesans know of the mystery? It's qui…
You know, while the mixed reviews had me a little worried this wouldn't live up to my hype, my faith never wavered. It seems my conviction was justified, because my goodness is this a masterpiece! So good in fact, that I missed the last direct bus back home because I was so engrossed in discussing it afterwards - if my misfortune is not an endorsement, then I don't know what is! If you've seen Hero and House of Flying Daggers, then you can know what to expect from the plot here: a semi-historical account of a band of usurpers, plotting with wild abandon against tyrannical authority, inside a twisty plot as loyalties shift in constant flux, amounting to a grand political stance as reality reveals itself to be far too complicated for any one person to fully grasp. Yet Zhang no longer seems to care as much for spectacle as he used to, because while there's for sure still action here - an…
Utter junk, don't watch. Not funny, not dramatic, boring, freak. I had to stop watching it after 20 min because it caused me a headache. The other day I tried continuing but didn't reach hald of the movie and gave up. It's just terrible.
