21 RED LIST (21紅色名單)
Dir. Chuang Yan-chien, 1994
Taiwan. 89 min.
In Mandarin with English subtitles

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4 – 10 PM
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9 – 7:30 PM
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12 – 10 PM
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17 – 7:30 PM

In 1915 republican China, a group of bandits is tasked with stealing a Japanese-authored secret treaty that would ultimately spell doom for Chinese independence. They travel to Shanghai to intercept the document, but quickly realize that a traitor may be operating among them. What starts off as a riff on Hong Kong heist comedies quickly takes a much darker, more violent turn, with our four heroes confronted with the limits of their own loyalty, humanity, and trust in one another at a time of war.

A back-breaking, bone-crunching historical epic based on real events from World War I-era China, featuring a truly jaw dropping amount of swordplay, gunplay, room wreckage, and a few dozen more injured stuntmen.