Lou Ye

In 1928, the Japanese translator of the puppet state of Manchukuo, ITO Hidehiko (played by Nakamura Hiroshi), left his Chinese lover Ding Hui (played by Zhang Ziyi) and returned to Japan. Several years later, when he came back to China and arrived in Shanghai, he had transformed into a senior spy. By this time, Ding Hui had become a member of the underground anti-Japanese organization and was in love with the leader of the organization, Xie Ming (played by Feng Yuanzheng). "Anti-japanese"

On the Suzhou River in Shanghai, Ma Da (played by Jia Hongsheng), who delivers goods on a motorcycle, takes on the job of picking up the innocent girl Mudan (played by Zhou Xun). While they are together, Mudan falls in love with Ma Da. But just when she decides to entrust her life to him, Ma Da, blinded by greed, joins forces with his gangster friends to kidnap her, leaving Mudan disheartened and jumping into the Suzhou River.

The film is adapted from Hong Ying's "the death of Shanghai" and Hengguang Liyi's "Shanghai". 1941. The famous actress Yu Pansy returned to Shanghai when she was on an isolated island, ostensibly to star in her old love's play "Saturday novel". But what is her real purpose? To save her ex-husband? In order to give the allies