Mutiny 1938
It is a suspenseful spy drama directed by Zhang Yuzhong and Zhu Jianghua, starring Mei Ting, Liu Lei, Heizi, Yao Jude, Zhang Zhijian, Li Junfeng, Wang Moxi and Li Yang.
This is a behind-the-scenes contest between the two armies of the Kuomintang and the Japanese invaders for their respective goals, li Wancheng, commander of the Taihang Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Column, was suddenly abducted by the Japanese army, and it was reported that he then secretly reached an agreement with the Japanese to defect to the enemy, led a mutiny, and formed the First Army of the Japanese and pseudo-armed Imperial Allied Forces, while at the same time coercing Guan Zhenyu, Lin Dafei and other generals. In order to save this team, several spies launched a process of fighting wits and courage, which is the first military suspense film in China to describe the spy in the background of the war, the plot, love and wrong love, the storyline is hanging in the balance, known as the military version of "Black Hole".
There don't seem to be many viewers who have seen the show, also because there is also a spy drama called "Mutiny 1929", the names of the two episodes are easy to confuse, and the other drama was filmed in 2007 and premiered on the Nanjing Film and Television Channel, which is relatively old. Featuring famous actors Kuroko and Mei Ting as male and female protagonists, the drama is based on real events that took place in Henan in the 1930s.
Actor Kuroko played the male number one in the play this time - guan Zhenyu, deputy commander of the Kuomintang, he is in the core position of the national, communist and Japanese spy forces, is a character with a very complex heart and position, but Kuroko's performance is very in line with the character's intricate psychological performance, his quite manly image is also unique, whether it is a director or a cooperative actor, his acting skills are greatly praised. One of the scenes is when Guan Zhenyu sees his love dying in the water, the original design is that he stands at the water's edge and shouts, but he is too involved in the shooting and jumps into the water desperately. "It was the cold winter of December, the water temperature was very low, and I was terrified of the director and the cinematographers with this jump, but they still stopped the staff and let me improvise, and when they came ashore, the two of them also came up and hugged me excitedly, thinking it was very exciting", this passage is also the last version that the audience saw.
Mei Ting put on a military uniform for the first time in the play, and participated in many dangerous gunfight scenes, and the shooting scene was buried everywhere with explosion points, so that Mei Ting, who was personally in the battle, sometimes breathless under a shot, but she felt a sense of accomplishment. In the play, Mei Ting portrayed a Kuomintang female spy Xiao Ya lurking in the Japanese army, she was ruthless to the enemy at work, exuding a cold charm temperament, and in her emotional life, she transformed into a gentle woman, showing a tender and watery side, especially when she met her lover seven years ago in the bustling crowd - Lin Dafei (played by Liu Lei), who is an underground party, but due to the different beliefs of the two, the tasks performed are different, can only pretend to turn a blind eye, but the heart is full of pain... Mei Ting frankly said that playing such a multi-faceted role is not easy at all, when figuring out the heart of the character, she has endured all kinds of invisible pressures, that kind of struggle and entanglement, so that her nerves are always tense, it is difficult to let go.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that several actors who play Japanese people in the play are very consistent with both temperament and image. Moreover, in terms of performance, perhaps the deliberate setting of the choreographer, they are completely different from the Japanese officers we have seen before, no longer blindly highlighting the fierce and cunning, but more humane and layered. This kind of unconventional performance makes several Chinese actors look like Japanese, which is also an artistic performance that makes the audience applaud.
The drama currently has no rating on Douban (the main reason is that there are too few people who have watched it), but the evaluation given by many viewers is still good, as a spy drama, in addition to the interlocking, wit and courage of the spy war scene, there are also underworld battles and hot-blooded anti-Japanese plots, with a certain degree of ornamentation, interested friends can enjoy it.