Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- China, United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.
- shanghai
- china
- world war ii
- film noir
- female spy
- american abroad
- pacific theater
- nazi collaborationism
- spy thriller
- japanese occupation of china
- war against fascism
The bill
- Ken Watanabe — Tanaka
- Franka Potente — Leni Müller
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan — Conner
- Hugh Bonneville — Ben Sanger
- Hon Ping Tang — Chen
- Benedict Wong — Juso Kita
- Christopher Buchholz — Karl Müller
- Ronan Vibert — Mikey
- Nicholas Rowe — Ralph
- Michael Culkin — Billy
- Wolf Kahler — German Consul
- Directed
- Mikael Håfström
- Written
- Hossein Amini
Production
- Rating
- 6.1 / 10 · 198 ratings
- Studio
- Living Films, Phoenix Pictures, TWC Asian Film Fund, The Weinstein Company
If this stayed with you
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