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In 1978, actress Xiang Mei became famous for starring in the classic spy movie "The Gunshots of the Secret Bureau".
The success of this film laid the foundation for Xiang Mei's position in the mainland film industry.
The following year, she was invited to star in a classic spy movie, The Blue Files.
The film is another peak of spy thrillers in the 1980s, and it is also a classic film in the memory of a generation of audiences.
The Blue Files
In August 1945, an enemy-occupied area in the northeast, on the eve of the surrender of the Japanese and Kosovo.
Okada Daisa, a Japanese intelligence officer, had secretly hidden a list of long-term latent agents called the "Blue Files."
In order to save the situation, the Kuomintang specially ordered Wang Zhou and Zhao Kang, the leaders of the special agents of the Northeast Military Command, to obtain this list. The US intelligence department also coveted the "blue file", and the special commissioner Thomson secretly colluded with Zhao Kang in an attempt to steal it.
At this time, Shen Yaqi, an underground worker on our side, was appointed as a bank manager after breaking into the Central Bureau of Statistics and was ordered to investigate the blue file.
On this day, an officer walked into the bank, went to the counter and took out the approval of the Military Command Bureau and asked for a withdrawal.
The other party is Wang Zhankui, the captain of the gendarmerie of the military command, and Wang Zhou, the director of the local supervision office of the Military Command Bureau.
Wang Zhankui often came to the bank to withdraw money in the name of Wang Zhou, the father of Gan.
Shen Yaqi had long discovered the fact that Wang Zhankui had embezzled public funds, but chose to turn a blind eye.
Wang Zhankui saw that Shen Yaqi was willing to help himself cover up, and his heart was very grateful, and he immediately had some good feelings for Manager Shen.
From Wang Zhankui's mouth, Shen Yaqi set up important information that Wang Zhou of the Military Command Bureau was about to receive an American distinguished guest.
At this time, two car whistles suddenly sounded outside the window, and Shen Yaqi looked out the window.
In the jeep parked downstairs, she met Lao Fang, the driver of the Military Command Bureau.
It turned out that Shen Yaqi and Lao Fang were both underground workers.
The two are years apart husband and wife, each fighting on different stealthy fronts.
Five years ago, due to the needs of the revolutionary struggle, Shen Yaqi was transferred to Nanjing to perform undercover work. She was forced to abandon her daughter Lingling, who was still young at the time, bid farewell to her husband Lao Fang, and resolutely ran to the heart of the enemy.
Five years later, Shen Yaqi was transferred to Northeast China as a bank manager, and the couple actually reunited in a different place.
But at this time, they could not recognize each other, and could only bury their affection and thoughts about each other in their hearts.
Soon, in order to find out the situation, Shen Yaqi took the initiative to call Wang Zhou.
Blame the other party for not treating themselves as friends, there is a bank tycoon in the United States, how can you not invite yourself to know.
Wang Zhou knew that Shen Yaqi was born in the Central Unity and was a very skilled woman, but the other party was his own "cash machine" after all, and could not openly refuse, so Wang Zhou had to invite Shen Yaqi to the banquet together.
In the evening, Shen Yaqi drove alone to the local Meixing restaurant for a banquet.
Unexpectedly, Lao Fang's daughter Lingling also came from home and gave a scarf to her father who was driving.
When Ling Ling left, she bumped into Shen Yaqi who got out of the car, and Shen Yaqi wanted to hug her daughter, but reason told her that she had to pretend not to know.
In desperation, he had to pretend to be fierce and slapped his daughter fiercely.
The scene that happened at the door happened to be seen by Zhao Kang, deputy director of the Military Command Bureau.
Zhao Kang is Wang Zhou's deputy and the leader of a secret agent who is an old traitor. She had always been suspicious of Shen Yaqi, but Shen Yaqi did not leak anything, and he never found evidence.
At the banquet, Shen Yaqi danced with Wang Zhankui on the dance floor while secretly paying attention to the every move of the secret agents Zhao Kang, Wang Zhou and others. See Wang Zhou and the others leave the dance hall and go to the lounge together.
Shen Yaqi had a plan and planned to use Wang Zhankui to explore the way for himself.
Shen Yaqi told Wang Zhankui that the Americans should come to the northeast for a big deal of oil and water.
Wang Zhankui was suffering from no way to get money, and suddenly moved his greed, and immediately left the dance floor and went to the lounge to eavesdrop.
After eavesdropping on the return, Wang Zhankui returned to the dance hall and told Shen Yaqi that Wang Zhou and the Americans did not mention the money at all, but only talked about a Japanese prisoner of war Okada Daisa, and the blue file.
Wang Zhankui returned disappointed, but Shen Yaqi successfully probed and heard important information.
After the banquet, deputy director Zhao Kang met with Thomson alone.
It turned out that Zhao Kang was uneasy with people, so he surrendered to Thomson's command. Thomson instructed Zhao Kang to let the other party avoid the eyes and ears of Director Wang Zhou and get the blue file first.
Soon, Wang Zhou and Zhao Kang came to the prisoner of war management center and met okada Daisa, who was imprisoned.
Wang Zhou helped Okada repatriate him to China on the condition that he hand over the blue file in his hand.
Under duress and inducements, Okada finally agreed to hand over the list.
But Okada made a request to get back the sword that the emperor had given him, claiming that it was his honor as a soldier. Wang Zhou felt that this request was not difficult to handle, so he quickly agreed to it.
On the other hand, Wang Zhankui, who had no money, remembered that Shen Yaqi had told him about the big deal behind the blue file.
So he went to the restaurant and met with Lao Kuo, the guard of the Prisoner of War Management Center, and asked the other party to help him, eavesdropping on Okada's conversation with Wang Zhou.
As everyone knows, the conversation between the two was heard by Yu Jian, the waitress who served the food. Waitress Yu Jian quietly joined li hua, and it turned out that both of them were underground workers lurking behind enemy lines.
Yu Jian told Li Hua the contents of the conversation between Wang Zhankui and Lao Kuo.
On this evening, the driver Lao Fang drove with the director Wang Zhou and Zhao Kang to deliver the sword to the prisoner of war management office.
When Wang Zhou and Zhao Kang saw Okada, they returned the sword to him, and Okada finally revealed the location where the blue file was hidden, which was behind a statue in the Daxiong Treasure Hall of the qingyuan temple in the local Bailongshan.
The content of the conversation between the three was recorded by the tape recorder that Wang Zhankui had placed in the room to eavesdrop.
At the same time, Li Hua quietly sneaked into the prisoner of war and took away the tape in the bugging device, and when Wang Zhankui and the two returned to get the tape, they found that there was no tape in the tape recorder, and they were shocked.
That night, after the secret agent Wang Zhou learned of the location of the blue file, he ordered his confidant Xie Dejin to go to Bailong Mountain.
As soon as Xie Dejin's front foot leader left, Zhao Kang secretly ordered his subordinate Zhu Yishan to act first.
At this time, Shen Yaqi's side, after listening to the tape, also instructed Li Hua to leave immediately and go to Bailong Mountain to get the blue file.
Xie Dejin first came to Qingyuan Temple, found the wise monks in the temple, and got the blue file hidden behind the statue.
Xie Dejin was about to leave when Zhu Yishan, who was hiding in the shadows, suddenly appeared and threatened the other party with a gun to hand over the documents.
A fierce gun battle ensued between the two sides inside the temple, and the wise monk fled in a hurry.
When Li Hua rushed to the temple, he happened to see a figure fleeing the main hall, Li Hua mistakenly thought that it was the secret agent Xie Dejin who got the document, and immediately shot him to death, but he did not expect that the deceased was a wise monk wearing a robe.
By the time Li Hua returned to the main hall, Xie Dejin had already been killed, and the blue file had long been taken away.
At this time, he remembered that during the gun battle in the main hall just now, someone exclaimed Zhu Yishan's name.
Afterwards, Zhu Yishan returned to Zhao for his life. Zhu Yishan told Zhao Kang that there was a third party force present at qingyuan temple that night, and the other party killed the wise monk.
The sinister Zhao Kang became suspicious, in addition to Wang Zhou, there were people who actually wanted the blue file——
Will the other party be related to Shen Yaqi, whom he has always suspected?
Wang Zhou learned that the blue file had been robbed, and his confidant Xie Dejin had been killed again, and he was furious.
At this time, Zhao Kang was worried that the killing of Xie Dejin would arouse Wang Zhou's suspicions. Therefore, the spearhead of suspicion was pointed at Shen Yaqi. Wang Zhou was suspicious, accepted Zhao Kang's suggestion, and decided to interrogate Shen Yaqi.
Zhao Kang fanned the flames on the side, threatening Shen Yaqi to explain Li Hua's whereabouts.
Shen Yaqi had already made preparations, and she took out an account book and handed it to Wang Zhou.
After Wang Zhou saw the account book, his expression was very embarrassed, and he quickly took Zhao Kang away, saying that he wanted to talk to Shen Yaqi alone.
Originally, the account books recorded That Wang Zhou had embezzled funds from the Military Command bureau and stolen gold.
Shen Yaqi excused himself by saying that Li Hua left last night to collect money for Director Wang.
Wang Zhou expressed his appreciation for Shen Yaqi's ability to do things, and the doubt in his heart was immediately dispelled by a few points, saying that he would send Shen Yaqi back.
Zhao Kang insisted that Li Hua was suspicious. Shen Yaqi saw the situation and also reported to Director Wang, claiming that he had heard about Deputy Director Zhao and had been in close contact with Thomson, a distinguished guest of the United States.
Zhao Kang was poked to the core by Shen Yaqi and did not dare to argue any longer.
Afterwards, in order to deal with Zhao Kang, Shen Yaqi was determined to take advantage of the contradictions between the agents.
On the mahjong table, Shen Yaqi revealed to Wang Zhou. She heard that Zhu Yishan, who was originally in the casino last night, was suddenly temporarily called away by Zhao Kang's people. This sentence aroused Wang Zhou's suspicions, and he quietly ordered his son Wang Zhankui to investigate Zhu Yishan.
When leaving the Wang family, Shen Yaqi said that his car was broken and the driver could not come to pick her up, so Director Wang asked his driver Lao Fang to send Shen Yaqi.
Shen Yaqi took lao Fang's car to leave, and on the way, the couple finally had the opportunity to chat alone.
Shen Yaqi told Lao Fang that the blue file may have fallen into Zhao Kang's hands.
Shen Yaqi asked Lao Fang to drive to the department store in the city.
She remembered that it would soon be her daughter Lingling's birthday, and she specially bought a rag doll, planning to let her husband pass it on to her daughter.
This scene happened to be seen by a spy who was watching nearby.
When Zhao Kang heard that Wang Zhankui was pursuing Shen Yaqi, he immediately had a poisonous plan in his heart.
He privately found Wang Zhankui and asked the other party to take Shen Yaqi to the Meixing Restaurant for dinner, and there would be a good drama at that time.
At the same time, Zhao Kang secretly ordered his subordinates to quietly bring Lingling, who was at home alone, to the Meixing Restaurant.
At the appointed time, Shen Yaqi, accompanied by Wang Zhankui, entered the lobby of Meixing Restaurant.
At this time, Zhao Kang took Lingling to sit nearby, saw Shen Yaqi enter the door, and persuaded Lingling to recognize her mother.
Shen Yaqi couldn't help but be stunned when she saw Lingling coming over, but she quickly regained her composure.
Ling Ling remembered what her father had told her, and the bad guys hated their mothers, and they stopped after taking a few steps, and didn't shout out that mother.
Shen Yaqi knew that this was again a conspiracy of secret agent Zhao Kang.
Zhao Kang asked Shen Yaqi why he gave this little girl a rag doll?
Shen Yaqi explained that he was at Meixing Restaurant before and did not know that Lingling was the daughter of the driver Lao Fang, so he beat her. Hearing the driver Lao Fang say that his daughter was about to celebrate her birthday, he bought a rag doll to apologize.
Shen Yaqi's explanation was reasonable, and Zhao Kang's plot failed.
The vicious Zhao Kang saw the situation and slapped Ling Ling fiercely, and the corners of Ling Ling's mouth instantly bled.
Zhao Kang's brutal behavior stung Shen Yaqi's heart, but she could only pretend to be very indifferent and left the Meixing Restaurant.
Later, Zhao Kang learned that Wang Zhou had begun to doubt himself, and he was eager to find someone to carry the pot.
He came to the prisoner of war station, interrogated the guard of the day, Lao Kuo, and saw that Lao Ku was in a state of limbs, and Zhao Kang became suspicious of him and arrested Lao Kuo and put him in the torture room.
Unable to resist the torture to extract a confession, Lao Ku confessed the facts and revealed that he had been instructed by Wang Zhankui to eavesdrop on Okada's conversation. Zhao Kang pushed the boat along the water and informed Wang Zhou of the results of the interrogation.
After Wang Zhou heard the news, he was furious and immediately sent a message from Wang Zhankui, asking him to hand over the blue file.
At this time, Li Hua of the bank suddenly came to visit.
Li Hua handed over an account book and a batch of gold cash to Wang Zhou, which was the proceeds obtained from Wang Zhou's previous entrustment to Shen Yaqi to embezzle funds from the Military Command bureau to resell gold.
Li Hua looked at Wang Zhankui beside Wang Zhou and said that every time Captain Wang came to the bank to withdraw money, he used director Wang's name.
Wang Zhou instantly understood that the money he earned had been secretly embezzled by the defeated son Wang Zhankui.
Wang Zhankui saw that the matter had been revealed, planned to preemptively attack, and immediately pulled out his pistol, intending to snatch the money from the table.
Wang Zhou was furious when he saw this, and when Wang Zhankui took the money, he threw his fist and knocked out the gun in Wang Zhankui's hand.
The two wrestled together, and Li Hua saw the opportunity to act, suddenly flew up and kicked down Wang Zhankui.
Wang Zhou took the opportunity to pick up the pistol on the ground and killed Wang Zhankui.
Afterwards, Wang Zhou announced that Wang Zhankui had committed suicide in fear of his crime, and Li Hua gained Wang Zhou's trust and took over the position of captain of Wang Zhankui's special agents.
After Li Hua took office, the first task Wang Zhou gave him was to step up the pursuit of Zhu Yishan's whereabouts.
On the other hand, Zhao Kang was afraid of showing his horse's feet, and quietly tricked Zhu Yishan, who was hiding in his family's secret room, to the outskirts.
Li Hua discovered Zhao Kang's suspicious behavior and immediately called Shen Yaqi.
Shen Yaqi informed Lao Fang and Yu Jian to borrow a vehicle from the Military Command Bureau and track it outside the city.
At this time, Zhao Kang took Zhu Yishan to the woods outside the city, pretending to let the other party leave to avoid the wind. When Zhu Yishan got out of the car, Zhao Kang suddenly shot him and knocked him to the ground.
However, Zhao Kang was in a hurry and did not hit Zhu Yishan's key point.
Lao Fang and Yu Jian followed the gunshots to the woods and found Zhu Yishan, who was injured and unconscious.
The two took the people to the car and secretly transferred them to the garage of Shen Yaqi's family.
Shen Yaqi now has the card of Zhu Yishan in her hand, and she proposes to meet Zhao Kang, hoping to force Zhao Kang to obey and hand over the blue file.
This meeting was not happy and dispersed, Zhao Kang looked at Shen Yaqi who left, and his heart was killed.
He secretly contacted the female secret agent Lei Sister-in-law, who was lurking in the Shen family, and asked her to lead the people to assassinate Shen Yaqi.
However, Shen Yaqi had already taken precautions and escaped the assassination of the enemy.
At this time, Wang Zhou learned that the blue file was hidden in the safe in the secret room of Zhu Yishan's home, and immediately ordered Li Hua to lead the team to Zhao Kang's residence.
Zhao Kang did not have time to take away the documents, so he fled from the secret passage in a hurry.
Wang Zhou got the blue file and decided to send the blue file to Nanjing to ask for merit and reward. On the way to the airport, Wang Zhou sat in the car driven by Lao Fang, triumphantly dreaming of being promoted to a higher rank and getting rich.
Suddenly, Lao Fang turned and drew his gun at Wang Zhou, handed over his gun, and took away the blue file.
After Li Hua and Lao Fang completed their tasks, they came to the forest outside the city and handed the blue file to Shen Yaqi.
However, when Shen Yaqi looked at it carefully, he found that this file was actually fake.
Shen Yaqi guessed that this was probably a ghost trick made by Okada, and he had prepared two files from the beginning.
In order to get the real file, Shen Yaqi and they immediately made a decision, turned the front of the car back to the city, and came to the prisoner of war management office. Under the pretext of his superior's order, Li Hua claimed to escort Okada back to Japan on a special plane.
Before leaving, Okada did not take anything with him, but just clutched the emperor's sword.
All this was seen by Li Hua.
On the other hand, Zhao Kang fled to Thomson's residence and received a call from the Prisoner of War Management Office.
Zhao Kang, who answered the phone, angrily ordered Li Hua to be captured.
But by this time, the vehicle carrying Okada had driven out of the gate and rushed all the way out of the checkpoint outside the city.
In the car, Shen Yaqi exposed Okada's ruse and asked him to hand over the sword in his hand.
Okada saw that the matter was revealed and committed suicide by taking poison in despair.
Shen Yaqi picked up the sword in Okada's hand and took out a miniature film from the hilt of the sword.
After confirmation, the contents of the film are the real blue files.
After several twists and turns, they finally got the blue file, and Shen Yaqi, Li Hua and Lao Fang couldn't help but smile with victory on their faces.
At this moment, Zhao Kang led a large group of people and horses to track all the way, catching up with Lao Fang and Shen Yaqi who were about to evacuate.
The two sides engaged in a chase and gun battle on the mountain road, in which Shen Yaqi and Li Hua were shot one after another.
The injured Shen Yaqi gave the blue file to her husband Lao Fang, and asked Lao Fang to jump out of the car with Li Hua.
The injured Shen Yaqi continued to drive in the direction of the mountain path until she ran out of gasoline before she got out of the car and fled into the woods.
On the occasion of his death, Shen Yaqi recalled two meetings with his daughter Lingling, but he could not recognize his daughter and felt infinite regret.
At this time, Zhao Kang had already led the team to surround him and ordered his gendarmes to capture them alive.
Shen Yaqi was not afraid, but instead showed a faint smile.
She pulled out a grenade, pulled off the fuse, and died with the enemy's secret service chief.
The Blue Files was filmed in 1979 and produced by the Shanghai Film Studio.
The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by writer Hua Yongzheng, and another screenwriter, Meng Senhui, has created the classic anti-special film "Donggang Spy Movie".
In terms of actors, Xiang Mei's performance in this film, compared with the previous "Gunshots of the Secret Bureau", the complexity of the character design and the difficulty of the performance have increased unabated, although there are many male actors in "Blue Files", strictly speaking, the whole movie is the one-man play of the heroine Shen Yaqi.
Shen Yaqi, played by Xiang Mei, is not only an underground worker who broke into the enemy's back, but also a graceful woman, or a mother who misses her daughter. Xiang Mei's performance in this film supports the whole movie.
According to Xiang Mei's own recollection, in order to play this role well, she conducted a deep speculation on the shape and demeanor of the role. In the dance hall dance scene, the costumer of the crew originally planned to let her wear a red cheongsam, but Xiang Mei asked to wear a black qipao.
In her opinion, the character of Shen Yaqi is beautiful and vulgar, glamorous and not demon, so at her insistence, she appeared in the film with a black velvet cheongsam full of dignity and mystery, which made this role more stunning.
In terms of actors, Li Hua's actor Liang Boluo has starred in the classic spy war film "Soldier Station 51" in the 60s.
The villains Zhao Kang and Wang Zhou, played by two old drama bones Li Wei and Tang Ke, it is worth mentioning that Yu Fei, an actor who played the American Thomson, was a professional foreign actor on the screen at that time, and he often appeared on the screen as a foreign priest and secret agent.
"Blue Files" was a more classic genre in anti-espionage war movies at that time, and the film used a list of latent agents left behind by the Japanese army as a MacGuffin that ran through the whole film, and many forces of the enemy and us launched a struggle against me and deceit around this list.
The whole film is only 90 minutes long, but there is no waste scene, the character portrayal of the enemy and us is very distinct, the plot is very compact and ups and downs, and even at the end there is a relatively large car chase gun battle scene, the whole film is shot with ups and downs.
What is more novel is that this film designs the mother-daughter relationship that rarely appears in spy movies, and Shen Yaqi, as an underground worker, not only has to face cunning agents, but also suppresses the inner maternal love and emotions, showing the sacrifice and dedication of an underground worker.
After the release of the film, the commercial response was quite good, in large part because this movie was a rare spy thriller film on the screen at that time that could be emotionally moving.
In 2007, Shanghai Film Group remade this classic movie into a spy war drama of the same name, starring Zeng Li and Liu Xiaofeng, but the TV series changed greatly, the story line was transformed from a female agent into a pair of sister flowers, the two personalities were very different, the fate was entangled in an intricate way, and the plot was more in line with the characteristics of the domestic spy war plot at that time.