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It is Shanghai, 1942. The World War II. Japanese occupation of this Chinese city continues in force. Mrs. Mak, a woman of sophistication and means, walks into a café, places a call, and then sits and waits. She remembers...how her story began several years earlier, in 1938 China. She is not in fact Mrs. Mak, but shy Wong Chia Chi. With WWII underway, Wong has been left behind by her father, who has escaped to England. As a freshman at university, she meets fellow student Kuang Yu Min. Kuang has started a drama society to shore up patriotism. As the theater troupe's new leading lady, Wong realizes that she has found her calling, able to move and inspire audiences -- and Kuang. He convenes a core group of students to carry out a radical and ambitious plan to assassinate a top Japanese collaborator, Mr. Yee. Each student has a part to play; Wong will be Mrs. Mak, who will gain Yee's trust by befriending his wife and then draw the man into an affair. Wong transforms herself utterly inside and out, and the scenario proceeds as scripted -- until an unexpectedly fatal twist spurs her to flee. Shanghai, 1941. With no end in sight for the occupation, Wong -- having emigrated from Hong Kong -- goes through the motions of her existence. Much to her surprise, Kuang re-enters her life. Now part of the organized resistance, he enlists her to again become Mrs. Mak in a revival of the plot to kill Yee, who as head of the collaborationist secret service has become even more a key part of the puppet government. As Wong reprises her earlier role, and is drawn ever closer to her dangerous prey, she finds her very identity being pushed to the limit...

Cast

Tony Leung Chiu Wai		Mr. Yee
Joan Chen		Mrs. Yee
Wei Tang		Chih-ying Chu
Wang Lee-Hom		Kuang Yu-Min
Anupam Kher		Indian Jeweler

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Weekend Chart Record

Date	Rank		Gross	% Change	Theaters	Per Theater	Total Gross	Days
9/28/2007	48		$63,918		1	$63,918	$63,918	3
10/5/2007	29		$362,808	+467.61%	17	$21,342	$471,158	10
10/12/2007	22		$609,623	+68.03%	77	$7,917	$1,259,026	17
10/19/2007	20		$579,908	-4.87%	125	$4,639	$2,097,595	24
10/26/2007	21		$475,480	-18.01%	143	$3,325	$2,825,183	31
11/2/2007	24		$333,532	-29.85%	122	$2,734	$3,358,197	38
11/9/2007	28		$241,130	-27.70%	111	$2,172	$3,748,872	45
11/16/2007	28		$154,415	-35.96%	77	$2,005	$4,022,842	52
11/23/2007	34		$96,128	-37.75%	49	$1,962	$4,209,806	59
11/30/2007	34		$61,753	-35.76%	49	$1,260	$4,310,473	66
12/7/2007	47		$40,092	-35.08%	39	$1,028	$4,378,107	73
12/14/2007	41		$35,355	-11.82%	34	$1,040	$4,436,160	80
12/28/2007	50		$20,626		19	$1,086	$4,523,146	94
1/4/2008	53		$19,873	-3.65%	12	$1,656	$4,563,185	101
1/11/2008	57		$10,988	-44.71%	9	$1,221	$4,586,070	108
1/18/2008	72		$7,926	-27.87%	8	$991	$4,600,579	115

Daily Chart Record

Date	Rank		Gross	% Change	Theaters	Per Theater	Total Gross	Days
1/21/2008	61		$1,933		8	$242	$4,602,512	116

Worldwide Weekly Chart Record

Date	Rank		Gross	% Change	Theaters	Per Theater	Total Gross
2007-10-04	16		$5,968,315		112	$53,289	$5,968,315
2007-10-11	28		$3,350,515	-43.86%	149	$22,487	$9,318,830
2007-10-18	32		$2,368,587	-29.31%	182	$13,014	$11,687,417
2007-10-25	37		$1,966,083	-16.99%	341	$5,766	$13,653,500

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