Initially takes its time with lots of artsy wide-angle shots of men in suits eating dim sum in restaurants and dry conversations about military strategy but is soon interspersed with some brutal action and compelling subterfuge.

Best counter-espionage movie ever? Chess, not checkers; Go (wéiqí) not chess.

In World War two there were many moving pieces from so many countries in every single way. This movie is an addition to the significance of how things developed from the side of politics and its diplomacy through the eyes of the east and how these actions conquered and failed. The movie is so rich in its elegant way of presenting this cinematography equally with how such story composition was presented.