"Shadow" is by
Zhang Yimou
Directed by Li Wei and written by Zhang Yimou,
Deng Chao
,
Sun Li
,
Zheng Kai
,
Wang Qianyuan
,
Hu Jun
,
Wang Jingchun
,
Guan Xiaotong
,
Wu Lei
Such as starring in martial arts action films
[1]
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. The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 6, 2018
[2]
It was officially released in China on September 30 of the same year
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.
The film tells the human story of a small person who has been secretly imprisoned since the age of eight and is unwilling to be used as a puppet substitute, going through hardships and trying to find his freedom
[3]
.
In July 2018, the film was shortlisted
75th Venice International Film Festival
Non-competition screening unit and
43rd Toronto International Film Festival
Main screening unit, international premiere and North American premiere respectively
[4-5]
. Film win
The 55th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards
Best Director, Best Visual Effects, Best Art Design, Best Shape Design
[6]
. As of April 26, 2024, the film has grossed $91,708,374 worldwide
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.
- Chinese name
- shadow
- Foreign name
- Shadow
- Generic type
- Plot, action, martial arts
- Producing company
- Lechuang Entertainment (China)
- Production area
- Chinese mainland
- Date of shooting
- March 18, 2017 to July 16, 2017
- Shooting location
- Beijing Huairou Chinese Film Base, Zaoyang Seoul
- Issuing company
- Lechuang Entertainment (China)
- Direct performance
- Zhang Yimou
- dramatize
- Li Wei , Zhang Yimou
- Producer
-
Zhang Zhao
Cheng Wu - Main performance
- Deng Chao , Sun Li , Zheng Kai , Wang Qianyuan , Hu Jun , Wang Jingchun , Guan Xiaotong , Wu Lei
- Film length
- 115 minutes
- Release time
- September 30, 2018 (China)
- Dialogue language
- Mandarin
- chroma
- Chroma
- imdb coding
- tt6864046
This is a story about a double. Surrogates have been around since ancient times and are called "shadows." Where there is a stab, there is a shadow, and the shadow must come forward at a critical moment to save the life of its master; The shadow must be integrated with the real body, making others indistinguishable from the real and false as twins. About the shadow of the background, the real body has never been taboo Mo deep, do not want to mention and make the truth confusing
[8]
.
Pei Guo Da governor son Yu
(
Deng Chao
Play the role of)
Yang Cang, the enemy's general
(
Hu Jun
Play the role of)
Defeated, wounded and then activated the surrogate state he grew up in
(Deng Chao)
For him to walk in court and battle. At the same time, the king of Pei Liang
(
Zheng Kai
Play the role of)
And great governor Zi Yu mutual calculation. As a "shadow substitute", the border state is struggling to survive in the machique game of the aristocracy, and goes through various difficulties and struggles in order to survive
[9]
.
placard
- Wang Qianyuan 饰 Field warfare
- DUB-
- remark General Pei Guo
- Wang Jingchun 饰 Ruyan
- DUB-
- remark Minister of Peiguo
- Hu Jun 饰 Yang Cang
- DUB-
- remark The enemy God of war
- Guan Xiaotong 饰 duckweed
- DUB-
- remark Peiliang's sister
- Wu Lei 饰 Yangping
- DUB-
- remark Son of Yang Cang
- Seal cypress 饰 -
- DUB-
- Luo Jiameng 饰 samurai
- DUB-
- Zhang Yi 饰 samurai
- DUB-
- Ding Zichen 饰 -
- DUB-
- Wu Liaoliao 饰 -
- DUB-
- Fan Yupeng 饰 samurai
- DUB-
- Kan Zeng 饰 samurai
- DUB-
- Wei Fanxiang 饰 samurai
- DUB-
- Li Zhuoyang 饰 -
- DUB-
| producer | Cheng Wu |
| Production MANAGER: | Zhang Zhao(General Producer),Cheng Wu,honest,Ai Qiuxing,Zheng Zhihao,Yu Dong(Co-Executive Producer),Chen Lizhi,Chen Meijing,Pang Liwei,Qiao Qingshan |
| director | Zhang Yimou |
| Assistant Director (Assistant) | Wei Ran,Zhou Zhengfei,Ren Maocheng,Niu Xiaoning,Fu Lulu(Acting Deputy Director) |
| WRITER | Li Wei,Zhang Yimou,Zhu Sujin(Original author) |
| shoot | Zhao Xiaoding(Director of Photography),Zhao Zhao,Chen Zhufei,Chen Xiuhong,Zhang Yu,Bai Xiaoyan(stage photographer) |
| Background music | scoop,Ai Pengfei(Musician),Yangjiang(Voice guide),Zhao Nan(Voice guide),Han Junsheng(mimicist) |
| montage | Zhou Xiaolin,Gao Ziyu(Editing Assistant),Pang Han(Editing Assistant),Zhang Yongxing(Editing Assistant) |
| property | Liu Shaochun |
| Art design | Ma Guangrong,Chausson(Concept Art),Tao Wenting(Choreographer),Sun Qiyang,Wang Xiaoxiao |
| Movement instruction | Gu Xuanzhao,Feng Weilun,Seal cypress(substitute),Tang Tengfei(Martial arts),Wu Husler(Martial arts),Wei Bo(Martial arts),Ge Shuai(Martial arts) |
| Fashion design | Chen Minzheng |
| Visual effects | Li Zhaohua,Neptunea,Feying(Art Director),Zhang Tao(Special effects) |
| lamplight | Zhao Xianzhang |
| Stage management | Seo Hyo Soon(field affairs) |
Credits reference
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ACTORS
Deng Chao
DUB
-
The shadow substitute cultivated by Zi Yu has a strong appearance and stands upright in white clothes. Zi Yu's father was assassinated, and his uncle worried that he would fall to this end, searched all over the world, and finally found an eight-year-old boy, whose appearance and Zi Yu resembled, and took him back to the house for secret training, which is the later shadow - Jingzhou. The border state is struggling to survive between the intrigues of Kings and generals.
ACTORS
Deng Chao
DUB
-
Pei state governor, wily, ruthless very advisor. Zi Yu was defeated by the enemy's general Yang Cang in the battle, and after being wounded, he was haggard and emaciated. He hid in the cabin strategiously, not to let others find his physical problems, Zi Yu enabled the surrogate state cultivated from childhood, let the state walk for him in the court and the battlefield.
Xiao Ai
ACTORS
Sun Li
DUB
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Zi Yu's wife, wearing a fresh water ink style gauze dress, sometimes drumming, sometimes wandering between the screen hidden passage. Little Ai is in the melee of the male power struggle circle, acting as a behind-the-scenes spectator identity, unable to control their own fate, but she was given a sober side. In fact, Ai seems to be more attracted to Jingzhou than to her real husband, Zi Yu, who needs to vacillate between love and marriage.
Parion
ACTORS
Zheng Kai
DUB
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Lord of Peiguo, Duke of Ziyu. "Peiliang" talent and appearance, literary and martial, and sometimes the sword and the eyes are fierce, and sometimes if the fight wine and poetry fairy, elusive. In the face of the harem of the beauty of the show, and in the infighting between the king and the minister, seemingly crazy crazy is actually a bamboo chest, a hidden needle king image.
Yang Cang
ACTORS
Hu Jun
DUB
-
Enemy war God, proud nature, a talk about the rules of the river, the calculation of the old general. His sword skills were invincible, and Ziyu was once a defeated general under him. After Ziyu was wounded, Cultivating Jingzhou challenged him many times.
duckweed
ACTORS
Guan Xiaotong
DUB
-
Peiliang's younger sister, a pretty capricious girl image. Her head is tied in a bun, and she is dressed in a long gown made of ink and water, and her face is slightly powdered. In quiet time, she looks like a girl in a palace in an ancient Chinese painting. She does not want to participate in men's games, just want to follow their own interests and characters, looking for their own dignity, "who insulted her, she is not happy, will find who to account", is a slightly boy character of the free and easy princess.
Role Description Reference documents
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"Shadow" movie promotion song
Lyricist: Xu Shichang, Xiang Guiyan, Fang Qiangqiang
Composer: Ou Zhongjian
Singing:
Chen Jiahua
Producer: Jia Pengfang, Ou Zhongjian
Arrangements: Ou Zhongjian, Huang Zhiyuan
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The theme song of the movie Shadow
Lyricist: Yoon Yo
Composer: Gao Xiaosong
Producer: Gao Xiaosong
Arrangement: Eulogize
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The filming process was filmed as a documentary film Zhang Yimou and His Shadow ", simultaneously presented to the audience [20-21] .
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In the film, Deng Chao challenges two characters, one is strong and one is thin, and the role weight difference is 40 pounds [22-23] .
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Zheng Kai practiced calligraphy before entering the group, and also went to Shichahai, Beijing, to practice calligraphy with the old man on the ground [24] .
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According to the staff, Wang Qianyuan was very devoted to his work, and as soon as the director shouted "start shooting", he quickly entered the role. Deng Chao privately is the feeling of a sunny big boy, will wear ancient clothes, hum songs, and greet the crew [25] .
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Deng Chao lost weight to Zhang Yimou took the book, he asked Zhang guide to help him ask Christian Bale Make" machinist "When is how thin, Zhang guide really have to help him ask [26] .
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Deng Chao gave director Zhang Yimou a special finishing gift - director's chair, Zhang Yimou also gave his own chair and signed a message "Working with Deng Chao" super pleasure ". [11] .
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Awards
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Prize winner
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Nomination/Award
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The year 2018
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Most watched movie of the year on Weibo
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Shadow
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Win a prize
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Sixty-second session
London International Film Festival
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Main competition unit
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Shadow
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Enter or be selected for the next round of competition
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Best director
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Zhang Yimou
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Win a prize
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Best visual effects
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Neptunea
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Best art design
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Ma Guangrong
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Best shape design
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Chen Minzheng
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Best feature film
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Shadow
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nominate
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Best actor
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Deng Chao
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Best actress
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Sun Li
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Best adapted screenplay
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Li Wei, Zhang Yimou
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Best photography
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Zhao Xiaoding
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Optimal motion design
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Gu Xuanzhao
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Best original motion picture score
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scoop
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Best sound
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Yang Jiang, Zhao Nan
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2019
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Best shape design
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Shadow
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Win a prize
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Best Art Direction
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Best sound effects
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Best viewing effect
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Shadow
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Win a prize
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Australian Academy of Film and Television Arts Award
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Best Asian Film
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Shadow
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Enter or be selected for the next round of competition
[34]
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The 32nd Chinese Film Golden Rooster Awards
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Best photography
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Zhao Xiaoding
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nominate
[35]
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Best art
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Ma Guangrong
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Zhang Yimou finished watching
Akira Kurosawa
's
Shadow warrior
After that, I wanted to make a story about the ancient Chinese "double". The original inspiration for Shadow was
Zhu Sujin
The "Three Kingdoms · Jingzhou", the story is more biased history, the original script of "shadow" has nothing to do with "double". About half a year to a year after the project, the theme of "surrogates" was determined. In the final story, the history of the "Three Kingdoms" is left empty
[9]
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In the second half of 2013, Deng Chao filmed the film in Mauritius.
Breakup guru
When Liu Tianchi called Deng Chao, he told him that there was a movie in preparation, a story based on The Three Kingdoms, not the story of surrogates and shadows, and then the matter came to an end until 2016
[26]
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Zhang Yimou began to choose actors after he had a script. Because the film finally looks like a Shakespearean tragic drama story, so the director requires actors to be sound, stage, shape, table to pass, are actors who can act, Mandarin to say standard, need to be able to absolutely perform to the actor. Zhang Yimou has seen several films of Deng Chao and thinks that he plays a drama with strong tension and shaping ability, and is very good at acting in a serious way. He chose Deng Chao according to his ability. The lead actress Ai is the final set, at the beginning is not Sun Li, the crew also wanted to find other actors, but due to schedule and other issues failed to travel, finally Zhang Yimou thought of Deng Chao's wife Sun Li, considering the complex relationship between husband and wife in the film, Zhang Yimou believes that husband and wife to play will have more advantages in tacit understanding
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On March 18, 2017, the film was officially started at Beijing Huairou China Film Base
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; The crew finished filming in Beijing in mid-May and moved to Xianning, Hubei Province for location shooting. The crew went to Bamboo Sea in Qianshan Forest Park, Suiyang Bamboo Sea in Chibi, Qujiawan Ancient Town in Honghu and Xian 'an Star Bamboo Sea in Hubei successively. On May 24, they went to Qujiawan Ancient Town in Honghu, Hubei for location shooting. On May 26, the crew finished the 11-day shooting in Xianning
[25]
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. The next day, the crew moved into the Han Palace scenic spot in Zaoyang City, China, and began shooting for half a month. Filming officially ended on June 11 in Seoul, China, before moving to Beijing
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On February 9, 2017, Deng Chao weighed only 72 kilograms, and after two months of non-stop eating hot pot, eating late night snacks and exercising to keep fit, finally reached 83 kilograms before entering the group, and the whole body is muscle. After the "Border State" scene was finished, the director Zhang Yimou gave Deng Chao 20 days, thin to a sick man, and then came back to play Zi Yu, all the two people in the same frame of the play all over again, all the actors all come back and cooperate again. Deng followed the dietitian diet every day for 15 consecutive days, only eating 800 calories a day, at least two eggs a day, on the set for many times due to hypoglycemia dizziness, Deng Chao weighed only 63 kilograms at the end of the shooting
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On July 1, 2017, Zheng Kai, Guan Xiaotong and others were cast
[45]
On July 3, Sun Li's part was finished
[46]
On July 11, Deng Chao's part was finished
[11]
Filming officially finished on July 16
[47]
. The film was edited on October 1
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"Shadow" is not an all-black and white image, but chooses to control the color. Director Zhang Yimou uses material control to replace the fading treatment in the later stage. All the costumes, props and scenes are rendered in black and white as much as possible, and finally achieve the feeling of Chinese ink painting, but not pure black and white. Most of the actual scenes in the film were shot on real rainy days, directly physically controlling the colors, and no computer was used to remove the excess color after shooting. This style of ink painting was something Zhang Yimou had wanted to try for years before "Shadow.
[16]
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.
Fashion design
Chen Minzheng
It took him and his team nine months just to draw the characters. Initially, the film was intended to be in color, but the director wanted to experiment with a variety of people. So, he drew some color, saturation in 30%, 50% of the figure, and then with the director to discuss, finally the director wanted to try colorless, and made a number of black and white gray patterns, the director finally put forward to add some Chinese wind, there is a feeling of Chinese painting dizzy. Because the ready-made black, white and gray patterns and textures on the Internet are too low, Chen Minzheng had to make his own water painting. They made hundreds, nearly thousands of water drawings, which were used as some of the texture and copywriting of the clothing.
The clothes in "Shadow" are based on the design of Hanfu. The clothes are soft and elegant. The collar type is the simplest cross-collar top of the Han Dynasty, without any collar type adaptation and the injection of fashion elements, it is a typical Hanfu style, but the whole fabric is dyed, the size and position of Chinese painting splash-ink, which is designed. In the film, there are many scenes in the wind and rain, in the choice of materials, see the wind energy flowing up, but see the rain can not collapse. Clothes are to do plate printing alone, everyone's clothes have a different rhythm of some splashy ink, like Chinese painting, there is a particularly non-concrete kind of pattern, diagram
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The poster designer for "Shadow" was Huang Hai, who collaborated with Zhang Yimou for the first time. Huang's "Yin Yang" and "Black and White" posters took six months to produce, during which many drafts were revised. Huang himself is particularly fond of the Chinese philosophy of Yin and Yang, so he put elements of tai chi into the "Yin and Yang" poster, which also echoes the setting of the protagonist playing two parts. In the "Yin Yang" poster, the floor is all bamboo
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"Yin and Yang" poster
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"Black and white" poster
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"Shadow" poster
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"Dance" poster
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"Bureau" poster
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IMAX poster
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"Toronto" poster
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The "Venice" poster
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pre-publicity
On June 19, 2017, the film released the first four stills of the lead actors
[51]
. On November 5 of the same year, Zheng Kai posted a set of stilts on Weibo
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On March 1, 2018, the film released a "Binary" poster
[1]
. On June 1 of the same year, the film released the first Ziyu perspective "The authorities are not fans" version of the trailer
[12]
. On June 17, the film released three ink style posters, "Shadow", "Bureau" and "dance"
[22]
. On July 18, the studio released a customized trailer and a "double-sided" character poster
[3]
. On August 6, the film released Wu Lei's character special
[53]
. On August 17, the film released a special featuring Guan Xiaotong
[15]
. On August 28, the film released Sun Li's "Super Can Li" character special
[54]
. On September 10, the film released Deng Chao's "Extreme Slimming" special
[44]
. On September 14, the film released Zhang Yimou's "original intention" director creation special
[55]
. On September 19, the final trailer was released
[56]
. On September 27, the film held the "Ink Painting Killing Field" premiere conference in Beijing
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nation
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Release date
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Italy
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6 September 2018 (Venice Film Festival)
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China
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September 30, 2018
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Production company
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1. Lechuang Entertainment (China)
2. Tencent Pictures Culture Communication Co., LTD. (China)
3, Perfect Show Entertainment (Hong Kong) Co., LTD. (China)
4. Bona Film Group Co., LTD (China)
5. Hong Kong Tencent Pictures Limited
6, Tianjin Cat Eye Micro Film Culture Media Co., LTD. (China)
7, Zhejiang Bodi Film and Television Co., LTD
8. Beijing Perfect World Film & Television Co., LTD. (China)
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Issuing company
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1. Lechuang Entertainment (China)
2. Horgosten Film and Television Distribution Co., LTD
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Broadcast time
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Broadcast platform
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April 6, 2019
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CCTV6 Movie Channel (Premiere)
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May 2, 2019
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CCTV6 Movie Channel (Replay)
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May 15, 2022
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February 11, 2023
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October 15, 2023
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February 9, 2024
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Shadow is a Zen-like martial arts film that explores personal consciousness. "Shadow" is watery, as if it is growing out of water, with a strong texture of Jiangnan water town. The film's narrative is simple and explicit, but it also has a relatively profound ethical expression. The narrative has both the genes of Eastern opera and the methods of Western drama, the first half and the second half are a quiet move, the quieter the front, the more intense the back. The hazy beauty created by Zhang Yimou with the screen frames the whole story in the gray scale of the shadow, forming a clearly empty, but very narrow closed space
[16]
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The two characters, Deng Chao, play the age difference, as well as the sense of wily and manipulative, and it is hard not to appreciate his performance. Hu Jun's performance, as a whole show the tolerance. Sun Li's performance too need to internalize things, or lack some level. Guan Xiaotong started from a modest base, so although not particularly good, the role will bring recognition to the young actor
[17]
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(Sina Entertainment review)
