The Message

Following a series of assassination attempts on officials of the Japanese-controlled puppet government in 1942 Nanjingn (Nanking), the Japanese spy chief gathers a group of suspects in a mansion house for questioning. A tense game of "cat and mouse" ensues as the Chinese code-breaker attempts to send out a crucial message while protecting his/her own identity.

The Message is a 2009 drama crime movie, starring Bingbing Li, Xun Zhou, Hanyu Zhang. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.4/10 from 4,523 votes and runs 1h 58m.