

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.
Directed by Lou Ye, Ma Yingli
User score
32 votes

Released
October 15, 2021
2h 8m
Japanese, French, Mandarin, English

Gong Li
Jean Yu

Mark Chao
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

Zhang Songwen
Ni Zeren

Shibuya Tenma
Lieutenant Hosoda
Alexandre Robillard
French Reception Manager

Wang Xiaoqi
Telephone Operator

Li Weilong
Stage Actor

Wang Zhengquan
Man With Cigar

Hideo Nakaizumi
Kajiwara's Guy #3
Liu Weimin
Jean Yu's Driver

Yang Kaicheng
Waiter to Jean Yu