Why are you here?
What a coincidence, Miss Rouge. We just happened to walk by.
Walk by?
Is anything going on later?
-No. it's-- -Anyways, come drink with me.
Come on.
Drink!
Miss Rouge, I'm not a good drinker. I have a low tolerance.
You two are men, and I'm a woman. Do as you can.
Drink!
Bottoms up!
Drink!
Money! Money!
-Money? -Is this for real?
-It's mine! -Give it to me!
Don't fight! It's mine!
More here!
-My money. -There's more.
Look at all of this!
-I'm rich. -It's mine. Don't fight. Give it to me.
Money!
From now on, you are secret agents.
It's a lifetime's commitment. You cannot give up halfway.
Your work will last forever.
But no one will recognize your names or actions.
People will only remember the heroes who fight on the battlefield.
Even if you save the entire country,
all you will get will be perhaps a commendation.
And you may not ever see this medal in your lifetime.
The world of spies is a world full of lies.
There are no forever friends, and no forever enemies.
The only thing you can trust are the beliefs you hold in your heart.
Song Mian.
Wan Zhichao.
Tell me.
What is all this for?
What is all this for?!
She's throwing out money.
So much money.
We're rich.
What's going on with that woman? Go take a look.
Sir.
This is my colleague, she's drunk.
Don't let them surround her.
Okay, we understand.
Go away!
Pick up the money. Bring it here!
Go, hurry.
Go away.
Stop fighting. Go away!
My beliefs...
They all collapsed.
I'm the only one left.
How should I keep going on?
Remember the place I told you?
You will find your answer there.
HOUDE BOOKSTORE
Go to Houde Bookstore on Meifei Road.
Find Boss Gu. Just say you are Mr. Zhou's friend.
He can give you a reason to go on.
May I help you find anything, Miss?
Perhaps something by Zhang Henshui or Xu Zhimo,
Shelley or Pushkin. I have them all.
Your name is Gu?
How do you know, Miss?
I am Mr. Zhou's friend.
He asked you to recommend some books to me.
Miss, come with me.
CHINESE REVOLUTION AND THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA
CHAPTER ONE: THE SOCIETY OF CHINA SECTION 1: CHINESE PEOPLE
COMMUNIST PARTY MANIFESTO
PRACTICALISM
ON PROTRACTED WAR
ON CONTRADICTION
STRATEGY TO DEFEAT JAPANESE IMPERIALISM
MAO ZEDONG
Thought it through?
I am willing to fight together with you to create a strong, happy and new China.
The first time I saw you I knew we'd stand together.
Comrade.
You can't stop here. Leave!
SPECIAL AGENT DIVISION
Open the gate.
Boss, your stuff is too heavy. You have to pay me double.
Sixth.
Pay him.
Go now.
-Hurry and leave. -I'll leave right away.
SPECIAL OPERATIONS OFFICE
Hi, everyone.
SENDOH KAEDE DIVISION DIRECTOR
I'm Sendoh Kaede. sent by the Special Agent Division.
Please look after me from now on.
You are...Division Director Sendoh?
Master, right?
You are...
You are so manly.
Chief Feng, Chief Zhou. Division Director Sendoh has arrived.
Division Director Sendoh.
You are handsome, Chief Zhou. You look much more capable in person.
Chief Feng, right? How pretty.
Everyone get busy. I'm sorry to have bothered you.
He looks evil.
You seem to be very familiar with all of us here.
We have to be colleagues soon.
Early understanding forges a good relationship later.
This homework must be done.
Room 203.
Is this Miss Rouge's office?
Miss Rouge, right?
Your work is known all through Special Agent Headquarters.
I must shake your hand quickly to thank you for your work.
This is the newly arrived Division Director Sendoh.
From tomorrow on, you'll be the Intelligence Department Chief.
I'll have to rely on you in the future.
Sixth, the present?
Sticky bean bun and rice cake. Delicacies from my hometown.
Tell me when you're done eating them. I'll get you some more.
-Thank you very much. -It's my duty.
Chief Zhou.
Zhu Cheng.
This is the Special Agent Division's Division Director Sendoh Kaede.
Oh, my! You going to jab yourself to death.
Hello, Division Director!
From tomorrow on, succeed Chen Jialun as the Captain of the Action Team.
Yes.
My mother is Chinese and my father is Japanese.
So I cannot be fully considered...
Japanese.
-You're joking. -It's not a joke.
In Harbin, only crossbreeds like me are popular.
Think about it.
Harbin has Russians,
Japanese, Chinese, and Korean people.
Everyone smiles on the surface, but stabs each other from the back.
So the most important thing is balance.
Have everyone's strength contained.
It must not cross boundaries.
It's about the same in Shanghai.
Shanghai might be much more complicated, right?
Shanghai has British, Americans,
and I have heard even Jews have come here.
Dragons and fish jumble together.
But that's alright.
You, Chief Zhou, are a dragon, and I'm just a small fish.
I just need to hold onto your tail,
then you can take me flying along with you.
You look so highly upon me. I'm not sure what I should do.
Actually...
what I want to do is the same as what you want to do.
It is to have the Northeastern people eat rice soon.
If you want it to come true, we must end this war soon.
If rice isn't used by the military, then everyone can eat it, right?
Huaide Road is the next street.
And after that is Longjiang Road, right?
I have lived in Shanghai for over 20 years,
but you know these roads better than I do.
I'm about to work and live in this city.
I’m very passionate about my new job. so I must do my homework well.
My mother is from Harbin.
My father is Japanese royalty.
I am an illegitimate child.
The Chinese say we are traitors.
The Japanese treat us like Chinese people.
So in this war, we don't belong to either side.
If you want to survive in chaotic times,
you must become stronger.
Isn't that right?
Division Director Sendoh, where would you like to go next?
SUGI
Mr. Wang from Nanjing
sees the New Fourth Army's Jiangnan Brigade as a serious problem.
He has suggested that the village be cleansed.
Headquarters has decided to destroy
the Communist troops and their base,
which is a threat to Nanjing, Shanghai and Hangzhou.
But the Communist troops are difficult to deal with.
Every time we go into battle with them, we suffer great casualties.
I know what you always advocate. The simplest and most effective way
to destroy the Communist troops is to use poison gas bombs and chemical weapons.
The Sugi Institute has just developed a new type of poison gas bomb.
The village is the ideal place to do a large scale test.
Manna, please send an order to Wild Goose immediately.
Activate Black Rose Operation. The most important thing is to work
in tandem and co-operate with the Imperial Army to occupy the Communist base.
Yes, sir.
This is the steel plate engraved by Zhang Qi.
PENG, ZHABEI DISTRICT COMMANDER SHANGHAI UNDERGROUND PARTY
CODENAME: HOUZE
This is the photo of the letter mailed out.
It's correct. Commander Xu...
I brought something from Shanghai. Take a look.
Beacon?
Wasn't this the journal of the Progress Youth Student in those days?
Zhang Qi was the editor of this journal.
And he used to engrave the steel plates himself.
Come, Commander Xu. Look.
Come.
The three handwriting samples...
Look, they are exactly the same.
This is just one of our evidences.
Most importantly, from our surveillance on Zhang Qi,
is that we discovered he has a contact point in town.
Cholera is breaking out in town.
Businesses owners are busy running away.
But there is a grocery store that came from Shanghai to here.
This is very unusual.
Through following Zhang Qi, we discovered
he bought two bottles of wine from that grocery store.
The first step of Black Rose Operation is successful.
Cholera is breaking out in the Communist Party base.
Logistics support is severely compromised.
This is all your credit.
Chief Feng praised your effort.
And is prepared to move on to the second step.
Still cholera?
This is the enhanced version. It's even more contagious.
You will pour it into their water wells to contaminate the water.
-Don't move! -Who's there?
-Freeze! -I'm Zhang. What are you doing?
Let go of me.
We're looking for you, Deputy Chief of Staff Zhang.
Zhang Qi...
you're a spy with Special Operations. Your code name is Wild Goose.
Peng knows my situation best.
Peng is my past superior.
Peng, you must prove my innocence.
It looks like you won't give in easily.
Take a look.
This is the letter you wrote to Feng Manna.
Take a look.
We've already compared the handwriting.
Tungsten Wire...
is the spy you put in the Special Operations Office.
What do you know about Tungsten Wire?
And about the details of the Black Rose Operation,
and the village cleansing by the Japanese?
How much do you know? You must tell everything.
Let me...
Let me think about it.
I'll think about it...
Chief Feng asked to give you this pen.
Inside the pen is nerve poison.
When the tip of the pen penetrates the skin,
the person will pass out within 20 seconds.
Even though Zhang Qi didn't tell us a lot,
we got a lot of valuable intel
from the grocery store owner.
First, Black Rose Operation mission is to contaminate our base with cholera,
disrupting the logistics support for our troops.
Then, they'll put poison in the Headquarters area
to destroy the combat capacity of our troops there.
Once the Japanese know that Black Rose Operation has failed,
their Army still can surround us.
The enemy is strong, we are weak.
This confrontation is inevitable.
Commander, if this is inevitable,
instead of passively waiting for the Japanese to surround us,
why don't we attack them first?
Good.
We'll break through the iron wall of the enemy
and catch them off guard.
Then let's do it today, at 0300 hours.
-How should we handle Zhang Qi? -Let him retreat with the main troops.
If an emergency occurs, execute him right there.
Comrade, what is going on out there?
It has nothing to do with you. Write your crime confession.
The sudden sounds of guns outside made Zhang Qi panic.
Because he knew that the Japanese Army's sweeping operation
should start in the next afternoon after he had carried out Black Rose Operation.
But now, it's early morning.
Did the Japanese find out that his mission failed and decided to strike first?
The New Fourth Army suddenly broke through and caught us off guard.
All our plans went down the drain.
It looks like Black Rose Operation has failed
and exposed our intentions.
The New Fourth Army broke through in advance,
causing breaches in our blockade.
I'm afraid we can't fully destroy the main force of the New Fourth Army.
Reporting.
Reporting to Commander, General Oshima has arrived.
General Oshima.
Not only am I here, I've also brought along the pride of our Imperial Army,
the 1866 Special Force.
Please!
General Oshima, Black Rose Operation has failed.
The main force of the New Fourth Army has retreated earlier than we expected.
-We're coming up with a new plan. -Is that so?
When the Black Rose Operation was being carried out,
I had already planned to deploy the 1866 Special Force
to attack the New Fourth Army and their base.
No one knows about this plan, except me.
We are the Chinese's calamity.
Chief.
I know you won't let me go.
If I tell you everything,
can you guarantee that I'll stay alive?
You want to bargain?
Too late.
Peng!
-Have you seen Peng? -No.
Watch out! Bomb!
It's poisonous gas! Don't breathe it in!
My brother Delian left home and Father's illness has taken a turn for the worse.
Newspaper, newspaper! Big news!
The Imperial Army cleansed village. The Communist troops lost their base.
Newspapers! Big news! The Imperial Army cleansed village...
Newspaper, newspaper! Big news!
The Imperial Army cleansed village. The Communist troops lost their base.
Newspaper, newspaper! Big news!
The Imperial Army cleansed village.
Are the news stories true?
Their newspapers would obviously exaggerate.
But we indeed suffered great losses.
Though the main force broke through, we lost our base.
-The Japanese used poison gas bombs. -Poison gas bombs?
So they deployed their special force?
Yes, the special force stayed behind after the Battle of Shanghai.
They are stationed in Shanghai and share the same location with Sugi Institute.
They first activated Black Rose Operation,
used cholera to attack our base,
then during the massive attack,
used poison gas bombs to destroy our troops.
The worst thing is that...
I lost connection with the previous supervisor.
That previous supervisor went back to our base
and helped investigate the traitor Zhang Qi.
-Now, we've lost contact. -Then what about Zhang Qi?
I don't know. The base is now occupied by the Japs and the Collaborationist Army.
There are a lot of things that cannot be confirmed.
If this person is alive, there will be no end of trouble.
Manna should have news.
I'll try to find it out.
Yes.
You are too courteous, General Oshima.
Actually, all credit goes to you and the Sugi Institute.
On this end,
the Black Rose Operation was ruined,
and Wild Goose has gone missing.
I have paid too big a price.
A celebration?
Okay. Then I'll accept it.
Goodbye.
He says he fully trusts me and that I'm in charge of the Black Rose Operation.
But haven't you prepared another plan without our knowledge
and even used poison gas bomb?
-Reporting! -Come on in.
Chief.
A letter for you.
TO: FENG MANNA
Who sent a letter to me through the clouds?
When the wild goose come back, high above the west tower will hang a full moon.
He's still alive.
It's very safe here. Stay here for now.
After you meet Division Director Sendoh, we'll decide if you need to turn up.
Does the Special Operations Office know about this place?
Don't worry. Right now, only I and the two brothers outside know.
They are here to protect you.
Chief Feng...
you are indeed careful.
In the Office, only the Division Director and I know about your situation.
If anyone reveals the news about my staying at Xinya Hotel,
what you'll see tomorrow might as well be my body.
You're saying...Tungsten Wire?
The letter you sent to me.
I got this from a Communist Party leader.
They used this picture to find me.
Feng Manna could have never imagined
that one who opened the safe that night was a Communist.
She became more confused.
Excuse me.
-Division Director. -Division Director.
You've come back, our hero.
I... feel ashamed.
I wasn't able to fully complete the Black Rose Operation.
This time,
the main force of the Communist troops has suffered great casualties.
We even occupied their base. And you came back alive.
If you're not a hero, what are you?
Division Director, Mr. Zhang has something to report.
Subtitle translation by Kenny Liang