The Deadline(2025)

movie - first aired/released 2025-04-04 - 91 min - audience 7.0

Action, History, Mystery

Directed by Tong Hui

China's first one-shot, period action drama. The story tells of a group of death row prisoners waiting for the arrival of "Autumn Queen" during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. They were given a chance to survive that was almost equivalent to "beheading" - breaking through the enemy siege to light a beacon for help. This was obviously a road of no return, but they had no choice...