Director Cheng Er's espionage noir film set in Japanese-occupied Shanghai in the 1940s about a group of daring Chinese who set up an underground network to undermine the puppet regime. Starring Tony Leung, Wang Yibo, Zhou Xun, and Huang Lei ** Deep Dive Movie Reviews contain spoilers **

3:10 - Complex layers of loyalties & secrets

11:28 - The Hidden Blade's "long con"

12:55 - Shanghai as a setting

19:45 - Tony Leung

22:19 - Final score for Hidden Blade