It’s blue-grey. It’s techy-forward. It’s bloody paranoid. It’s Zhang Yimou banging the drum in Scare Out.

Is Dongji Rescue maybe Die Hard in the Pacific War?

The Chinese noir boom chugs along, this time with Wei Shujun’s Only The River Flows. It’s less bonkers than some.

Oh, you came so close to nutty perfection, Lost in the Stars. So close…