Blood-Soaked Frontier

An international film crew is at work on location at a tomb when ancient golden statues are replaced by fakes. A crew member investigates.

At the Sixth World Judo Championships for Women, China’s Gao Wa defeated the formidable Mieko Ōguma with superb technique and fierce determination, claiming her third consecutive world championship title.

During her summer vacation, college student An Li visits an ancient tomb for archaeological research. There, she is abducted by human trafficker Gao Shiying and sold to Fuzhu, a middle-aged fisherman. Aboard Fuzhu’s shabby motorized fishing boat, a tearful An Li begs Fuzhu’s mother to let her go home. Although the old woman sympathizes with her, she pleads with An Li to stay, thinking of the 7,000 yuan she and her family had paid with their hard-earned money.

In the early 1940s, on the grasslands of northern China near Beijing, there lived a cunning and formidable horse thief named Chagan, nicknamed “The Lynx.” He was notorious for appearing and disappearing like a ghost, repeatedly stealing heavily guarded herds of horses. Although he had been captured by Nationalist troops, he managed to escape death several times, each time slipping away like a phantom.