Crab

Synopsis

Miao Zhenbiao, a disabled young man who grew up in an island city in the East China Sea, stands on a Taipei street lit up with bright lights. From there, he looks back on the past in vivid, sweeping strokes: from the Renji Hospital in his island city to a Western medical clinic in Taipei. Under the enigmatic codename “Crab,” he connects a series of ordinary people through a hapless communist agent. There is Miao Zhenbiao, who seeks the truth of revolution, going from a disabled doctor to an underground operative entrusted with a sacred mission; Takahashi Chieko, the beautiful interpreter for the Japanese garrison commander, who longs for a spring of freedom; Chen Lan, a senior intelligence officer for the Chinese Communist Party, ready to give her life for intelligence on the eve of dawn; and Uncle Zehua, the embodiment of justice. Once trapped in a desperate situation, is the “Brave New World” about to arrive, or has it already passed...