Full River Red (Chinese: 满江红) is a 2023 period comedy thriller film directed by Zhang Yimou, and stars Shen Teng and Jackson Yee, alongside Zhang Yi, Lei Jiayin and Yue Yunpeng.

It tells the story of a group of righteous men who sacrificed their lives to eradicate evil.

The film begins with the murder of the Jin envoy at the Song Prime Minister/Grand Chancellor Qin Hui's residence.

Zhang Da, one of the guards, is about to be executed but he claims to know something about an item found at the murder scene.

He Li suspects Zhang Da, Sun Jun, and Wu Yichen, another official.

Zhang Da tells Wu that they will all be killed once Zither discloses the contents of the letter.

Sun is instructed to torture Zhang while He Li attempts to find the contents of the letter from Zither.

Zhang and Sun are held in custody awaiting execution while the Prime Minister plans to meet with the Jin.

After addressing the troops Qin retires from the balcony, he grabs Sun's knife and uses it to stab himself.

Sun questions why the body double knew the Full River Red poem.

Qin reveals that he didn't even attend the cell of Yue Fei and only sent the body double.

The title is from one of the most famous poems Man Jiang Hong attributed to Yue Fei.

However, Yue Fei was framed and executed by the Song emperor Zhao Gou along with Prime Minister Qin Hui.

Some even say that the poem was written in a different time period (e.g. after the Song dynasty), citing the fact that Helan mountains and Xiongnu are mentioned.

[4] The poem Man Jiang Hong is recited during film by Qin Hui's double in front of the Song army.

Some characters (such as He Li) are based on the novel General Yue Fei, written by Qian Cai during the Qing dynasty.

Some characters also share names with historical people from other time periods such as Lan Yu, a general who was executed by Zhu Yuanzhang during the early Ming dynasty, and Lüzhu, an ancient Chinese singer.

On the same day, it also announced that the film was scheduled for release on January 22, 2023 in CINITY, IMAX, Dolby Vision and other formats.

[16] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 75 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".