West Point is a century-old school with a large number of talented people: Military generals, political leaders, and leading business wizards... Too many outstanding people have graduated from here. Their stories illustrate a truth: To be a successful person should face oneself, face others, face all kinds of difficulties and setbacks in life, and how to achieve good results in life.

Over the course of several decades, a deal between the Japanese army and criminals in Shanghai plays out with violence and betrayal. Depicts events in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and the Philippines between 1934 and 1945. The central characters are a Chinese gangster, Lu (Ge You); his brother-in-law, Watabe (Tadanobu Asano), who is Japanese but describes himself as Shanghainese and a film actress, Xiao Liu (Zhang Ziyi), who is married to Lu's boss but not...