Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Gong Li
Jean Yu
Lead
Mark Chao You-ting
Tan Na
Joe Odagiri
Furuya Saburo
Pascal Greggory
Frederic Hubert
Tom Wlaschiha
Saul Speyer
Huang Xiangli
Bai Yunshang
Ayumu Nakajima
Kajiwara
Wang Chuanjun
Mo Zhiyin
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Lou Ye's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. Saturday Fiction is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
