Synopsis
Gezhi Town (得闲谨制, 2025) is a Chinese war drama you can watch online on iFILM. Director Kong Sheng sets the story in 1943: a small mountain settlement called Gezhi has quietly sheltered refugees since Nanjing fell. Then a Japanese reconnaissance unit stumbles through the pass, and there's nowhere to go.
The defense that follows is led not by a soldier but by a machinist — a man who knows how engines work and is now applying that logic to survival. Xiao Zhan heads a large ensemble that includes Liao Fan, Ni Dahong and Duan Yihong, three of the most decorated actors working in Chinese cinema. The film earns its battle sequences by spending time on who these people are before they have to fight.
Kong Sheng built his reputation on large-scale historical television productions; here he strips the story back to a single desperate afternoon on one mountain. The premise is almost a thought experiment — civilians with ingenuity against soldiers with weapons and training — and the film takes it seriously. Stream Gezhi Town online on iFILM.
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