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Hidden Man (2018)

Hidden Man poster
Original title
邪不压正
Directed by
Jiang Wen
Genre
spy film
Country
People's Republic of China
Runtime
2h 17m
Rated
IIB
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 89 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man returns to his hometown in 1930s Beijing to investigate a crime. He gets caught up in a web of martial arts, gangsters, and government conspiracies.

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What happens

Hidden Man (Chinese: 邪不压正) is a 2018 action comedy film co-written and directed by Jiang Wen and starring Eddie Peng, Liao Fan, Jiang Wen, Zhou Yun, and Xu Qing. A Chinese-Hong Kong co-production, the film is an adaptation of Zhang Beihai's wuxia novel Xia Yin. After Let the Bullets Fly and Gone with the Bullets, it completes Jiang Wen's gangster Beiyang trilogy. The film was released on July 13, 2018, in China. It was selected as the Chinese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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