Sep 22, 2009
118 min
Full-HD

The Message (2009)

After a series of assassinations in Nanking, a Japanese spy master gathers a group of suspects in a mansion, then a tense cat-and-mouse game erupts as the Chinese agent tries to keep his or her identity a secret.

Category

Drama Thriller

Country

China

Companies

Huayi Brothers Media Corporation

Zhou Xun

Gu Xiaomeng

Zhang Hanyu

Wu Zhiguo

Li Bingbing

Li Ningyu

Huang Xiaoming

Takeda / Wutian

Zhiwen Wang

Wang Daoxiang

Alec Su

Bai Xiaonian

Ying Da

Jin Shenghuo

Shi Zhaoqi

Commander Zhao

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