The Case follows an innkeeper, played by Wu Gang, who one day comes across a black suitcase floating in the river, only to discover that it contains a body, finely dismembered and frozen.

Retrieving it, Dashang hopes to find his fortune in the mysterious case, only to discover its contents are dismembered human body parts.

[1] Heavy rainfall, however, threatened to delay the production until director Wang Fen made the decision to shoot some of the more dramatically intense scenes first, so as to utilize the moodier weather.

[1] Despite being actress Wang Fen's first feature film, The Case received fairly positive reviews upon its release, particularly among the Western press.

[3] A more technical review from FIPRESCI praised the film director's methods as "something special" in the way they reinforce "an evident theatrical treatment of the subject matter.