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Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon (2013)
★ 6.3 · 295 ratings on TMDB
Young Dee Renjie arrives in the empire's capital to join the Supreme Court as police judge of his region. He wants to become a prosecutor. Empress Wu, who is at the beginning of her reign, has commissioned the fierce detective Yuchi to investigate a sea monster that stalks the city at night and makes it unsafe.
DirectorTsui Hark
The emergence reading
Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing politics, justice, power, myth, intrigue.
zero-distanceCNpoliticsjusticepowermythintrigue
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The Dictator (2012)E8/E12 · rare rung · politics, power
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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)E8/E12 · rare rung · myth, powerSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Same people
Shared director or cast.
