Saturday Fiction (2021)
It’s 1941, and China has become a wartime intelligence battlefield. Actor Jean Yu returns to Shanghai, ostensibly to appear in the play “Saturday Fiction,” directed by her former lover. But what is her true aim? To free her ex-husband? To gather intelligence for the Allied forces? To work for her adoptive father? Or to escape from war with her lover? As she embarks on her mission, with friends ever more difficult to distinguish from undercover agents, Jean Yu starts to question whether to reveal what she has learned about the imminent Pearl Harbor attack.
Director:
Lou Ye
Writer:
Ma Yingli
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Gong Li as Jean Yu |
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Mark Chao as Tan Na |
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Joe Odagiri as Furuya Saburo |
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Pascal Greggory as Frederic Hubert |
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Tom Wlaschiha as Saul Speyer |
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Huang Xiangli as Bai Yunshang |
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Ayumu Nakajima as Kajiwara |
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Wang Chuanjun as Mo Zhiyin |
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Zhang Songwen as Ni Zeren |
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Shibuya Tenma as Lieutenant Hosoda |
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Alexandre Robillard as French Reception Manager |
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Wang Xiaoqi as Telephone Operator |
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Li Weilong as Stage Actor |
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Wang Zhengquan as Man With Cigar |
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Hideo Nakaizumi as Kajiwara's Guy #3 |
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Liu Weimin as Jean Yu's Driver |
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Yang Kaicheng as Waiter to Jean Yu |
| Writing | Hong Ying | Novel |
| Crew | Lou Ye | Presenter |
| Directing | Lou Ye | Director |
| Writing | Ma Yingli | Screenplay |
| Camera | Zeng Jian | Director of Photography |
| Production | Ma Yingli | Producer |
| Writing | Riichi Yokomitsu | Novel |
| Editing | Feng Shan Yu Lin | Editor |
| Editing | Lou Ye | Editor |
| Art | Zhong Cheng | Art Direction |
| Costume & Make-Up | Linlin Mai | Costume Designer |
| Directing | Jingxuan Chen | First Assistant Director |
| Sound | Pablo Áset | Sound Effects Editor |
| Sound | Maile Cannon | ADR Supervisor |
| Sound | Alberto Carlassare | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Fu Kang | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Gonzalo Matijas | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Steve Miller | Supervising Sound Effects Editor |
| Art | Zhong Cheng | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Linlin Mai | Hair Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Linlin Mai | Makeup Designer |
| Production | Ma Yingli | Executive Producer |
| Crew | Maile Cannon | Dialogue Coach |
| Camera | Piao Xinghai | "C" Camera Operator |
| Camera | Zeng Hui | Focus Puller |
| Lighting | Xing Hui | Gaffer |
| Lighting | Sun Yuwei | Best Boy Electric |
| Lighting | Sun Junyang | Electrician |
| Sound | Shan Jiang | Production Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Zhang Bin | Boom Operator |
| Sound | Li Ran | Sound Re-Recording Assistant |
| Directing | Jacky Yeung | Action Director |
| Production | Takashi Asai | Associate Producer |
| Sound | Olivier Dô Hùu | ADR Recordist |
| Sound | Fu Kang | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Tan Ailong | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Tan Ailong | ADR Recordist |
| Sound | Steve Miller | Sound Effects Editor |