In Hong Kong, Dr. Gao Jing is introduced to photographer and diver Dave Chen Guo Dong. They fall in love and Guo Dong invites Gao Jing to travel to Taiwan to visit an ancient submarine city, where he intends to propose. During the dive, Guo Dong vanishes, and Gao Jing is unable to recall what happened underwater. Her investigations open her eyes to something far more than she ever expected.
Direction
Tsui Hark goes full unhinged — this is messy maximalist cinema.
Cinematography
Underwater sequences that feel genuinely suffocating and dreamlike.
Visual Effects
Bizarre creature designs that will haunt your peripheral vision.
Director
Tsui Hark
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tsui Hark allegedly made this during a creative crisis, explaining its fever-dream logic and refusal to resolve cleanly — it's practically an art-horror exorcism.
The submerged city references real underwater ruins myths across Chinese folklore, particularly the legend of Shi Cheng — a drowned ancient city in Qiandao Lake.
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