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Shanghai Knights (2003)
★ 6.1 · 2,426 ratings on TMDB
A Royal Kick In The Arse
When a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds.
DirectorDavid Dobkin
The emergence reading
Shanghai Knights keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing family, honor, colonialism, crime.
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The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Same people
Shared director or cast.
