#无名

[zhanglinghez]

WANG YIBO as MR. YE

Hidden Blade 无名, 2023.

[hishoukoku]

WU MING!!!

无名！！

The Wu Ming reveal moment ... this art is so BEAUTIFUL.

that profound look in Hua Cheng's eyes full of love and worship !!!

The way he's kneeling....💖

Xie Lian's surprised gaze !!!

The hand,

The flowerr,

the red string,

the butterfliessss,

This art is perfect until we actually get to this moment in the donghua💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[yibocheeks]

Historical Background for 《无名》 (Hidden Blade)

A very brief summary of historical details of note for understanding the context of the film:

The film is set during the Second Sino-Japanese War and WWII. There are several powers in play at this time: the Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese Nationalist Party or Kuomintang, and Imperial Japan. Imperial Japan invaded Manchuria (located in northeastern China) in the early 1930s and established the puppet state of Manchukuo. It was here where they hoped to establish a base from where they would continue their expansion into Asia.

In 1937, after many years of conflict, Japan occupied Shanghai, Nanjing, and Beijing. The Nanjing Massacre occurred at this time. After the fall of Nanjing, which had been the capital of the Republic of China at that time, the Kuomintang moved the capital west to Chongqing, under Jiang Jieshi's leadership. During this time, the Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang formed a temporary alliance, suspending the years of civil conflict between them, although their vie for power continued. The Chinese Communist Party set up their base in Yan'an.

In 1940, Wang Jingwei, who was once a member of the Kuomintang but had always been in opposition against Jiang Jieshi, collaborated with Japan to establish the Wang Jingwei regime. They claimed to be the leadership of the Republic of China, when in fact they were a puppet government of Japan, overseeing the Japanese-occupied territory in eastern China, under Japan's control. They established their capital in Nanjing and used the Kuomintang flag. The Axis powers recognized the Wang Jingwei regime, while the Allied powers still recognized Jiang Jieshi as the leader of the Republic of China.

From 1937-1941, Japan had left a few neighbourhoods in Shanghai unoccupied, because that was where the American-British joint settlement and French Concession were located. Many people fled to this area to live at that time. After Pearl Harbor in 1941, the entirety of Shanghai became occupied by Japan. Many cities were bombed during these years, including Guangzhou, which experienced bombings for 14 months in 1937-1938.

During this era of war, which is also called the War of Resistance in China, espionage networks were established to try to undermine the enemy. Hidden Blade tells a story about these individuals.

Characters in the film (spoiler-free):

Director He (Tony Leung): Director of the Political Security Department for the Wang Jingwei regime

Mr. Ye (Wang Yibo): A subordinate under Director He, works for the Political Security Department of the Wang Jingwei regime

Captain Wang (Wang Chuanjun): A captain working for the Political Security Department of the Wang Jingwei regime, under Director He

Minister Tang (Da Peng): Minister of the Political Security Department of the Wang Jingwei regime, Director He's cousin

Officer Watanabe (Mori Hiroyuki): Head of secret service in Shanghai, claiming to be a follower of Ishiwara's faction (Japanese general who believed in the Pan-Asianism ideology)

Mr. Zhang (Huang Lei): A secretary of the Chinese Communist Party's underground network

Ms. Chen (Zhou Xun): A messenger of the Chinese Communist Party's underground network

Ms. Jiang (Jiang Shuying): Kuomintang agent assigned to assassinate Minister Tang

Ms. Fang (Zhang Jingyi): Disguised as a dancer, she worked together with other progressive youth to try to assassinate Japanese officers

[yibowang]

无名 (anonymous) trailer → ye mi

[linggluu]

woah woah woah

[ocdhuacheng]

my best friend wu ming plus a very bad mock-up of the liquid popsicle charm im putting him in <3

po's open ❗

[pretty-dianxia]

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[porcupine-girl]

Hidden Blade thoughts!

IT WAS SO GOOD

YIBO WAS SO GOOD

I would've followed a bit better if I understood more about the political landscape of WWII China, but it wasn't too bad. Definitely one of those movies where I want to go back and rewatch it immediately now that I know what I know from the end.

I will put the rest under a cut because very definitely spoilers.

The entire first half, I was kind of confused and disappointed because Yibo's role was barely a background character? I was like... how did he get second billing? How did he catch the critics' attention?

Then he has the scene in the bathroom with his ex-fiance, and from there suddenly he's the main character of the second half of the movie. It's like Tony Leung got half and he got half LOL And he's so damn good in his half.

I don't particularly like or care about fight scenes, but his were so good?? That first one with the bitchslap, he's just explosive. In the bathroom scene he becomes a ticking time bomb that's just waiting for an excuse to go off, and when he does it's breathtaking. But then he manages to just bottle that energy back up as soon as he's done with one fight, and spends the rest of the movie like that. Like every single scene he was in from there on I was convinced he was about to go off and kill someone or at least maim them - he only winds up doing it a few more times, but anytime he's not being violent you can just feel the violence he's bottling up inside radiating out of him. I can 100% see why the NYT chose the words "simmering" and "mesmerizing."

I will admit I might not have been as transfixed during Yibo & Tony's big fight scene (which, the bts is just a tiny clip of a very long scene) if it weren't for the fact that I'd seen the clip of the truck scene so I knew they both survived, so I spent the entire time holding my breath like how the fuck do they both survive this. Like, it just doesn't seem like the kind of fight where one is gonna let the other walk away. But speaking of that...

Two bits my husband and I did not understand by the end:

If Ye was actually on He’s side the whole time, why did they have the huge fight?? Like that seemed way more than necessary just to continue pretending to be on opposite sides. Sure, Ye couldn't have just let He go or vice-versa, but like they both nearly killed the other multiple times, and tbh the only reason Ye survived that fall is movie magic (it might not be wuxia but it did inherit just a smidge from that genre in terms of this fight scene I think). Why such a knock-down drag-out fight if they're actually on the same side? Surely they could've made less look like more.

Then the much smaller thing: Early on, He buys pastries to pass a note to… his wife? It happens so early when you don’t know who anyone is, by the time they come back to it I couldn’t quite remember what had happened. I think it turned out to be his wife. Anyhow, then later the Japanese guy asks what took him so long and he says he was buying dim sum but then produces the pastries??? Why did he say it was dim sum? Such a weird lie to tell when you've got the pastries to show him (I assume He bought two boxes). And the Japanese guy doesn't comment on it or anything. Were the subtitles just mistranslated or something? IDK my husband thought he heard them say dim sum but obviously he wasn't paying close attention to that detail as they were saying it, that was just in retrospect after he realized it wasn't dim sum, so maybe they said something else and it got mistranslated.

Edit: Mystery solved! @trickybonmot says she heard them say 点心 (dianxin), and according to purpleculture.net (whose dictionary is top-notch and I trust way more than Google), that can mean dessert/pastry OR dim sum! So it’s not exactly mistranslated, they just chose the translation that makes less sense to English-speaking audiences.

Overall, btw, the translation was great. SO much smoother and less awkward than literally any TV show I've watched. They had both Mandarin and English subs up the whole time, even when the characters were speaking Japanese or Shanghainese.

It was very violent and there were a lot of things that were highly disturbing in a "horrors of war" kind of way. Like yes some bits were gory but I think the disturbing outweighed the explicitly gory by far.

The nonlinear narrative has gotten mixed reviews; I think it's the kind of thing where if you like that type of storytelling (which I do!) you'll like it and if you don't you won't. If you're neutral idk what you'll think. There were definitely a few times when I wasn't totally sure when we were, but usually it didn't make things outright not make sense. There are also a few scenes that I'm still not sure why we went back to them, but I bet if I rewatched it those choices would make more sense.

It was definitely communist propaganda, but I don't think that was heavy-handed. They just showed the communists as definitely The Good Guys of the war. Obviously Japan was The Bad Guy, but they kind of just pushed the non-communist Chinese nationalists to one side and ignored them? IDK, again I might not understand the politics or get the references well enough to know how they actually handled it, but it mostly seemed like that side was more ignored than, like, actively portrayed as bad the way the Japanese were. It doesn't actually, like, make any claims about why communism is good or anything, it's more like “communists” just happens to be the name of the good guys in this war. The ideology itself makes like one brief appearance when Ye's ex-fiance talks about laborers, and even then she says maybe I'll marry a laborer or an intellectual and I was like 😬 and how did communism work out for the intellectuals in 20-30 years? Not sure if that was actually a subtle dig on Cheng Er's part or not.

Anyhow I am very excited to talk about the movie with anyone who's seen it, or I can answer questions for anyone who hasn't!

[wyeobo]

Popular Movies magazine weibo 20231221

The official interview of the 36th Golden Rooster Awards is here! #WangYibo appeared and accepted an exclusive interview, sharing the behind-the-scenes story Hidden Blade and hear how he evaluates his performance

Full interview will be available on Popular Movies magazine first issue in 2024

((So cats will get fashion darling Yibo on Bazaar 2024 January AND movie actor Yibo on Popular Movies magazine 2024 issue 1 yippieeeeee 🥳🥳🥳))

[hishoukoku]

Xie Lian: "It wasn't long after my second demotion. My heart was uncertain, filled with discontent and that lead to a great mistake."

This scene is so powerful !

> Major novel spoilers below <

Xie Lian talks about his second banishment briefly and ... the focus instantly goes to Hua Cheng.

We see Hua Cheng go through all these emotions, as Xie Lian says that line. His reaction here is worth 1000 words.

Hua Cheng knows exactly what happened around his second banishment. He was there, as Wu Ming, serving Xie Lian and ultimately dying for him by sacrificing himself.

Xie Lian's heart being uncertain only shows how much it pained him to lose Wu Ming.

I had always hoped that in some way Hua Cheng would learn that Xie Lian asked for the second cursed shackle to remind him of Wu Ming and his sacrifice. But Xie Lian would never tell him, wouldn't wanna burden him with that knowledge. It would be a lot to handle for Hua Cheng. Xie Lian learned Wu Ming was his last believer in this world only after he died sacrificing himself back then. Wu Ming tried to tell him that maybe there are still people who worship him, referring to himself, but Xie Lian resolutely refused to believe that, given it was the most traumatic and painful moment of his life.

So, of course, his heart was shattered in a million pieces learning it was in fact true true and he lost his only true believer.

Little does Xie Lian know (yet) that his most devoted believer is still standing next to him, hearing him speak about that painful time and hoping Wu Ming is someone Xie Lian remembers fondly.

[hqwn97]

“I swear to die following your Highness.”

I MISS WU MING😭😭😭😭

[odilecheng]

Wang Yibo CHANEL Cruise Show

#WangYibo_CHANELCruise24

#CHANELCruise

CHANEL House Ambassador's Wang Yibo attended CHANEL Cruise 2024 show on 10th May, 2023

[linggluu]

留下来，或者我跟你走。

[ocdhuacheng]

Old design but I've restocked my little wu Ming for Saturday! (Again, cat not included :3 sorry)

The deal with this was I actually ordered more wu Mings for a con in early November, bc I had xie lians (bwx version) but I was sold out on Wu Mings. And you have to have both. Do not separate etc. but the charms didn't arrive on time ( and then xie lian sold out during the con So now I have wu mings but no xie lians..... so I might have xie lian available for preorder as well during the shOp reopening bc I don't like having one but not the other :') they are meant to b together

[pretty-dianxia]

We got Official Wu Ming art!!