{"id":194885,"date":"2025-12-16T15:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/194885\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:33:08","slug":"nangong-cheng-iffr-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/194885\/","title":{"rendered":"Nangong Cheng &#8211; IFFR EN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#main-content-sidebar\" class=\"text-lg underline border-2 sr-only rounded-2xl focus:not-sr-only focus:absolute focus:p-4 focus:z-50 bg-base-50 hover:no-underline border-base-900 text-base-900 hidden lg:block\"><br \/>\n\t\tSkip to sidebar<br \/>\n\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steelworker Nangong Cheng is dying from an infected wound when he encounters Zhuang, a stranger with a similar affliction seeking vengeance for his murdered wife. Cheng, a disciple of a traditional martial-healing sect, must use his final strength to help him.<\/p>\n<p>Is there still room for heroic chivalry in our lives? Can Jianghu, the mythical realm of China\u2019s knight-errants, exist in the midst of our modern world? Filmmaker Shao Pan believes so, and makes his case with his debut fiction feature Nangong Cheng. Cheng works in a steel mill and is dying from a poisoned wound that has been festering for far too long. His fate seems sealed. Then a stranger named Zhuang enters his life, suffering from a mysterious ailment of his own, one for which Cheng appears to know the cure, as a disciple of a secret martial-healing sect.<\/p>\n<p>The plot expands into a tale of revenge, atonement and grace, of confronting the past as much as battling the undying forces of corruption. In doing so, the film raises one of the most fundamental questions of our time: is it still possible to live according to principle when the world around us seems to have surrendered to the corrosive pull of transactional relativism?<\/p>\n<p>The answer offered by Shao\u2019s astonishing debut is clear: how could we live otherwise?<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Vanja Kaludjercic<\/p>\n<p>\tFilm details<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tCountry of production<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tChina\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tYear<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tFestival edition<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tIFFR 2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Length<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t197&#8242;\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMedium\/Format<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tDCP\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tLanguage<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tChinese\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tPremiere status<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tWorld premiere\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tPrincipal cast<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tShao Pan, Yu Bolai, Li Yue\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tDirector<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tShao Pan\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tProducer<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tShao Pan\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tScreenplay<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tShao Pan\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tCinematography<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tXiaohan Dong\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tEditing<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tShao Pan\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tProduction design<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tRuoran Zhang\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSound design<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tShao Pan\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMusic<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tShao Pan\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tProduction company<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tTaijixia Films\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSales \/ World rights holder<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tTaijixia Films\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tView more details<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skip to sidebar Steelworker Nangong Cheng is dying from an infected wound when he encounters Zhuang, a stranger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-194885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}