Hidden Man

Hidden Man
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese邪不壓正
Simplified Chinese邪不压正
Transcriptions
Directed byJiang Wen
Written byJiang Wen
He Jiping
Li Fei
Sun Yue
Based onXia Yin by Zhang Beihai
Produced byZhou Yun
StarringEddie Peng
Liao Fan
Jiang Wen
Zhou Yun
Xu Qing
CinematographyXie Zhengyu
Edited byZhang Qi
Cao Weijie
Jiang Wen
Music byNicolas Errèra
Production
companies
Wuxi Zizai Film and Television Company Limited
Distributed byWuxi Zizai Film and Television Company Limited
Release date
  • 13 July 2018 (2018-07-13) (China)
Running time
137 minutes
CountryChina
LanguageMandarin
Box office$85,170,581[1]

Hidden Man (Chinese: 邪不压正) is a 2018 Chinese action comedy film co-written and directed by Jiang Wen and starring Eddie Peng, Liao Fan, Jiang Wen, Zhou Yun, and Xu Qing.[2][3][4][5] The film is an adaptation of Zhang Beihai's wuxia novel Xia Yin. After Let the Bullets Fly and Gone with the Bullets, it completes Jiang Wen's gangster Beiyang trilogy.[6][7][8] The film was released on July 13, 2018, in China. It was selected as the Chinese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.[9][10]

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  6. ^ "姜文谈《一步之遥》 故事源自北洋阎瑞生案" [Jiang Wen talks about "One Step Away" The story is based on the Beiyang Yan Ruisheng case] (in Chinese). NetEase Entertainment. Archived from the original on 10 July 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
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  9. ^ "87 Countries In Competition for 2018 Foreign Language Film Oscar". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  10. ^ Kilday, Gregg (8 October 2018). "Oscars: 87 Countries Submit Films in Foreign-Language Category". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 8 October 2018.