A detective begins to lose his grip on reality while investigating the murder of an old woman in Wei Shujun’s ’90s-set Sino-noir.
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The Ebbs and Flows of Content
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Review: One and Only (2023)
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A bumbling corporal is swept into intrigue when charged with retrieving a compromising document in Zhang Yimou’s Song Dynasty mystery.
Father of the Milky Way Railroad (銀河鉄道の父, Izuru Narushima, 2023)
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Review: River of Salvation (2020)
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