After a series of assassinations in Nanking, a Japanese spy master gathers a group of suspects in a mansion, then a tense cat-and-mouse game erupts as the Chinese agent tries to keep his or her identity a secret.
The Message is a 2009 Chinese espionage thriller film set in 1942 Nanking, featuring a cast including Zhou Xun, Li Bingbing, Huang Xiaoming, Zhang Hanyu and Alec Su. The film was adapted from Mai Jia's 2007 novel, The Message, and was co-directed by Chen Kuo-fu and Gao Qunshu.