Na Yan

Vic Zhou plays a Taiwanese medic in World War II who was deployed to China as a Japanese military doctor. He endured much internal turmoil as his allegiance was split between his Japanese ruler and his Chinese ancestry. At the end of the war, a Chinese general saved him from being executed with the rest of Japanese soldiers. Ever since his rescue, he had been searching for a way to get back home. Back to Taiwan.

Set in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Old Tie is a skilled senior welder who mentors three apprentices, following their personal growth and struggles as they work together in a factory during China’s economic transformation.