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In the final installment of actor-director Jiang Wen film trilogy, Eddie Peng stars as Li Tianran, a Chinese-American spy who returns to interwar China in the 1930s seeking revenge on the men who murdered his martial arts master 15 years before. With a Japanese invasion looming, Li attempts to ensnare police chief Zhu Qianlong (Liao) and Japanese spiritual guru Nemoto (Kenya Sawada), but a double-dealing businessman (Jiang) and a pair of gorgeous women (Zhou Yun and Xu Qing) complicate his plans. Based on Zhang Beihai's novel Xia Yin (The Reclusive Hero).