Blade in the Shadows (2025)
- Directed by
- Zhang Wen
- Cast
- Wang Lei Fang, Yang Sheng Ye, Deng Li, Li Hao Nan, Zhang Zhuo Yi
- Length
- 16 episodes
How it feels
In 1920s Shanghai, a communist spy inherits a coded brooch from a dead colleague. He teams with a vigilante to decode the object while evading double agents and traps set by enemies of the revolution.
tensegrittyslow-burnsuspensefulatmosphericnoir-ishmelancholicperilous
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