Zhou Xun
Also Known As: 周迅, ジョウ・シュン, Châu Tấn, 周米卡, ژو شون
Biography: Zhou Xun is a Chinese actress and singer. She is regarded as one of the Four Dan Actresses of China. She gained international fame for her roles in Suzhou River and Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Quzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
Adult: No
Birthday: October 18, 1974
Age: 50 years old
Gender: Female
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Overview: During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2002-05-16
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The Emperor and the Assassin
Overview: In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1998-10-08
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Suzhou River
Overview: After getting out of prison, small-time crook Mardar stumbles upon a woman who looks exactly like his long-lost lover, who he attempted to kidnap 3 years ago.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2000-04-04
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Le Vrai Où
Overview: When an elegant female singer meets a handsome bartender, how will she and him choose? VogueFilm and CHANEL present a short film by Angelica Cheung, starring Wang Zibo and Zhou Xun.
Genres: Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2020-11-19
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The Message
Overview: After a series of assassinations in Nanking, a Japanese spy master gathers a group of suspects in a mansion, then a tense cat-and-mouse game erupts as the Chinese agent tries to keep his or her identity a secret.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2009-09-22
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Beijing Bicycle
Overview: A seventeen-year-old country boy working in Beijing as a courier has his bicycle stolen, and finds it with a schoolboy his age.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2002-01-25
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Confucius
Overview: In 500 B.C., during Chinas famed 'Spring and Autumn Period', Kong Ze (Confucius), a commoner reverred for his outstanding wisdom, is made Minister of Law in the ancient Kingdom of Lu. Under his inspired leadership, Lu ascends to new heights but becomes a target of conquest for the warlike nation of Qi. Threatened with annihilation by their powerful neighbour, a desperate people turn to their greatest teacher to lead their most powerful army. When Confucius delivers a stunning victory against all odds, a jealous aristocracy sets out to destroy him, but they should never under-estimate a remarkable man whose wisdom is more powerful than the sword.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2010-02-11
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The Banquet
Overview: Crown Prince Wu Luan is in love with Little Wan but left heartbroken when she marries his father, the emperor. The emperor's brother, Li, kills him and Wu Luan tries to avenge his father's death.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Action History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2006-09-14
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Hidden Blade
Overview: Follows the story of underground workers who risked their lives to send intelligence and defend the motherland, set after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor when the Wang Jingwei regime declared war on Britain and the U.S.
Genres: Drama Mystery History Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-01-22
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True Legend
Overview: Su Qi-Er, a wealthy man living during the Qing Dynasty who loses his fortune and reputation as a result of a conspiracy against him. After being forced out onto the streets, Su dedicates his life to martial arts and reemerges as a patriotic hero known as the "King of Beggars."
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2010-02-09
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Perhaps Love
Overview: A love triangle develops between the male and female leads and the director during the making of a musical in Mainland China.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2005-12-01
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Baober in Love
Overview: Liu Zhi, a young man, depressed and trapped in a loveless marriage with a dominating girl, meets Baober (an ageless young girl) on a Beijing street one day. They fall in love and start to live a strange, mysterious life....
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2004-02-10
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Ming Ming
Overview: Ming Ming is a 21st Century martial arts princess and lady Robin Hood who steals for love. Her Prince Charming is D, a maverick fighter and irresistible rogue who posted this challenge to his swarms of female admirers; give him 5 million dollars and he'll run away with his benefactress to Harbin. Ming Ming meets D's other girlfriend, Nana, who is a virtual look-alike of Ming Ming. Meanwhile, he disappears from Shanghai without a trace. The only clue he leaves behind is a cryptic phone message.
Genres: Action Mystery Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2006-10-14
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Temptress Moon
Overview: Set in the decadent 1920s, Temptress Moon tells the very complicated story of a wealthy family living on the outskirts of Shanghai. Their youngest daughter, Ruyi, is brought up as a servant to her opium-addicted father and brother. Meanwhile, her brother-in-law Zhongliang has a successful, if illegal, career seducing and blackmailing married women in the city. When he comes to Ruyi's home the two fall in love, and trouble ensues.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1996-05-09
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Painted Skin
Overview: Painted Skin is based on one of Pu Songling's classic short stories in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Zhou Xun stars as Xiao Wei, a fox spirit that feasts on human hearts in order to maintain her lovely, youthful appearance. When General Wang Sheng (Chen Kun) 'rescues' her from a band of bandits and brings her home, trouble brews as the demon falls in love with the general.
Genres: Fantasy Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2008-09-25
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Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
Overview: Three years after the infamous Dragon Inn was burnt down in the desert when its innkeeper Jade vanished. A new gang of marauders had taken over - innkeepers by day and treasure hunters by night. The inn is the rumoured location of a lost city buried under the desert, and its hidden treasure would only be revealed by a gigantic storm every 60 years. The gang used the inn as a front to locate the lost treasure.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-12-15
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Cloud Atlas
Overview: A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-26
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The Great Magician
Overview: In the years after the Revolution, China broken up into fiefdoms held by warlords, who are busy fighting each other. One warlord has imprisoned a girl and wants her to be his seventh wife, but he's too honorable to force her. The local revolutionaries wants to kill him and bring back the republic. But when a stranger returns from abroad with mastery of magic to recover the girl he loved, who is tricking whom and who will win at the end?
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-12-22
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The Beauty Remains
Overview: Set in 1948 against the backdrop of Communism's rise, "Fei" is the story of two sisters--Fei and Ying--bound together by the will of their late father, a legendary business entrepreneur, and their shared love for a charismatic ex-boxer, Huang. They are two women whose paths have been dictated by the often cruel decrees of the men their lives--two women who must somehow transcend that influence...or lose everything.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2005-02-14
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The Equation of Love and Death
Overview: When a mysterious death occurs, the lives of five unexpected strangers are suddenly intertwined together. A drug trafficking crime is unveiled, and through the twist and turns of the investigation, their stories unravel, and a bizarre connection is gradually discovered between them.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2008-09-18
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Painted Skin: The Resurrection
Overview: According to demon lore, it takes hundreds of years to attain human form. Even then, lacking a human heart, a demon cannot experience the true pains and passions of existence. However, there is a legend that if a pure human heart is freely offered to a demon, it can become a mortal and experience true life. Sequel of Painted Skin (2008).
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2012-06-28
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The Silent War
Overview: An espionage thriller set in the 1950s and adapted from the novel "Year Suan/Plot Against" by May Jia. Tony Leung Chiu Wai plays a blind man who works for a piano tuner. He is recruited for a spy mission because of his exceptional hearing.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2012-08-10
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Lost in Memory
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Original Language: zh
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Hollywood Hong Kong
Overview: A prostitute named Tong Tong enters the life of a man who runs a barbecue pork restaurant and quickly begins to ruin his life, as well as the life of his two rotund sons, and a local gangster.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2002-07-11
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Stolen Life
Overview: When Yan'ni starts college she believes she is embarking on a new life away from her family, and she is, but not the new beginning she anticipates. Once at school, she immediately meets Muyu and falls in love with him. What she does not know is that from the moment he met her Muyu began an intricate deception that will lead to the loss of her child and the future she believes in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2005-04-23
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All About Women
Overview: A series of intertwining stories focus on the lives and transformations of three women and their romantic relationships.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2008-08-08
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Beginning of the Great Revival
Overview: A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
Genres: Drama Action History War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-06-23
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone
Overview: Gao Ju (Xia Yu) and Zhang Yang (Pu Shu) were best of friends, but they fall in love with Huanzi (Zhou Xun). Huanzi loves both of them and thus they formed an unbalanced trinity. A simple promise not to meet ever again after college ended up in disaster when Gao cannot resist wooing Huanzi again
Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2002-05-01
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A Pinwheel Without Wind
Overview: It sets in China 1945, a romance develops between the young Ningjing ZHAO (Xun Zhou) and LIN Shuang-Ran, although they are distant cousins and Shuang-Ran is already betrothed. Each will seek to fight against there destiny to try to live each their romantic feelings.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2002-02-26
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A West Lake Moment
Overview: Xiao Yu (Zhou), a barista and cake maker in a teahouse-café by Westlake in Hangzhou. Since a car crash long ago, she had been leading a peaceful life with her kind-hearted best friend and fellow car crash survivor Tong (Yim) who is unabashed in admitting that his feelings for Xiao Yu have developed into love. One day A Qin (Chen) celebrates his birthday alone in her café. Xiao Yu's curiosity sparks off their dialogues and both discover they have many parallels. But A Qin is a player who is escaping to Hangzhou from the pressures of his relationships in Beijing and Xiao Yu is pursued by Tong ... What will be their choices?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2005-02-14
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Overheard 3
Overview: Law was a chauffeur for the rural tycoon Luk, and he was jailed for killing a major land owner in a car accident. It was rumored that Luk was behind the land owner’s death, which gave Luk a competitive edge in the native apartment development deal. When Law gets out of prison five years later, the world has changed. Luk’s corporation has grown more powerful, while Luk’s right-hand man Keung has his own agenda to pursue. But things take a surprising turn. With the help of Law’s prison mate and computer whiz Joe, Law drugs Sean and his brothers in the drinks, then modify their mobile phones for wiretapping, Joe gets acquainted with the materialistic single mom Eva, who turns out to have a dark history with both Law and Keung. Through the eavesdropping, Law realizes Keung’s ultimate plan, which may change Hong Kong’s land development forever.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2014-05-30
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Meet Miss Anxiety
Overview: Fresh off a recent break-up, a woman catches an early menopause, but manages to heal herself mentally and physically through a new love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2014-12-05
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Women Who Flirt
Overview: When Zhang Hui is told by long-time best friend Xiao Gong that he has a new girlfriend, she is determined to learn new tricks to gain him back. Based on the novel written by Luo Fuman, Everyone Loves Tender Women.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2014-11-28
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If I Losing You
Overview: Chinese film directed by Zhang Yuan
Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Maiden Rosé
Overview: To celebrate his newborn baby girl, an old wine brewer made a bottle of Maiden Rose for her future marriage. Eighteen years later, the girl was already a beautiful woman and fall in love with a youngster. However, her father was unhappy with their romance, though she had been pregnant. Fifty years passed by, three women of three generations finally had a chance to drink that bottle of Maiden Rose.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1995-09-09
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My Rice Noodle Shop
Overview: Carol 'Do Do' Cheng portrays the tough, eventful life of "Mama Boss" from childhood in pre-1949 Guilin to disillusionment in 1970s Taipei, where she struggles to run a noodle shop and contend with a host of colourful customers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1998-09-11
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The Pampered Wife
Overview: After playing a prank that lands her new husband in prison, Yangyang's life spirals out of control as she tries to live by herself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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All Tomorrow's Parties
Overview: The story happened in 1990 when Beijing hosted the Asian Games. Zhou was someone who lived a normal life, taking care of her mom. She has a passion for her life, such as watching and donating to the Asian Games instead of buying Jeans. Li Mo was someone who didn't like his parents' arrangement (maybe to work at the factory). He likes writing poems and traveling. Something that was trending in China at that time but not being understood by many others. He had just completed his trip and had to go back to reality. He had that poet look at the beginning but cut it later on to show that he had moved on to his normal life. The two met. They shared some common and trivial things. They can potentially understand each other better and treat each other as friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-10-31
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One Day
Overview: ONE DAY comprises 9 warm and inspirational stories, which describe the life and dreams of 9 different groups of disadvantaged children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2014-09-10
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Born in China
Overview: Venturing into the wilds of China, "Born in China" captures intimate moments with a panda bear and her growing cub, a young golden monkey who feels displaced by his baby sister, and a mother snow leopard struggling to raise her two cubs.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2016-08-12
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指甲刀人魔
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2010-10-15
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Our Time Will Come
Overview: In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to freedom.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2017-07-01
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Children from the Distant Planet
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-03-30
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The Weary Poet
Overview: Another wuxia tale from Xu Haofeng, this one set against the backdrop of a rebellion during the Yuan Dynasty.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
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Last Letter
Overview: All Yuan Zhinan has left behind when she passed away is a letter and an invitation to a school reunion. Attending the reunion in lieu of her late elder sister, Zhihua accidentally runs into Yin Chuan, on whom she had a crush in her youth. As old memories are evoked, and correspondences travel through different contexts and times, Zhihua slowly uncovers the intricate story of the trio.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-11-09
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The Eleventh Chapter
Overview: A man must attempt to clear his name after a theatre puts on a play that accuses him of committing a 30-year-old murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-04-02
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Remain Silent
Overview: Wenfang Wan was assassinated in Hong Kong while her performance, the investigation found that the suspect is a young man. Lawyer Mulan Duan took over the case and ready to start the investigation, but in the process of investigation, she found that the prosecutor of the case is her former lover Zhengwei Wu. At the same time, she found the case much suspicion, so she came to the young man's home to seek the truth, hence, she began to fall into a series trouble.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: vi
Release Date: 2019-08-23
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Daughter
Overview: A film about 3 generations of Chinese women coming together at Chinese New Year.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2020-01-11
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Inside an Old Grave
Overview: Base on "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio". an Chinese classic A love story between a young scholar and a spirit of a dead girl.
Genres: Mystery Fantasy Horror Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1991-02-19
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Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait
Overview: The dazzling new film from Bhutanese lama and filmmaker Khyentse Norbu (The Cup, Travellers and Magicians) chronicles a sacred jungle ritual whose masked, anonymous participants seek after complete self-knowledge — or descend into thievery, violation, and murder.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: dz
Release Date: 2016-08-10
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The Yin Yang Master
Overview: The world is on the verge of a devastating war with monsters who are coming to retrieve the Scaling Stone. Yin Yang Master Qingming's life is in danger and he travels to different worlds to prepare for the upcoming assaults. On his journey, Qingming finds that the key to all the calamities is embracing his hybrid identity of both human and monster.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-02-12
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Hero
Overview: The background of "Hero" is set in 2020: a sudden disaster that disrupted everyone's lives. When society face unemployment when families fall apart, when lovers are separated, when death is approaching quietly, and when a peaceful life suddenly undergoes unexpected changes, how will women respond? What are the vital and irreplaceable roles that men play in women’s lives and growth? The three female directors Zhang Aijia, Li Shaohong and Chen Chong used their unique female perspectives to explore and show people's plights and struggles in family, career, and love in special times.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-09-09
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Across the Furious Sea
Overview: A murder case reveals unknown secrets of the killer and the victim.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-11-25
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A Story About Fire
Overview: The legend of Ran Bi Wa talks about a monkey who was raised by humans. When he sets off to the Holy Mountain to steal fire for humankind, a journey begins from which he will return transformed into a man.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2025-02-18
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Bringing Happiness Home
Overview: short films
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-21
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The First Taste of Loneliness
Overview: A single mother has the idea of restarting her marriage life. During the process of contacting different men around her, she felt confused and did not know where to go. Until the emotions buried in her past memories were awakened, she finally found her own answer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
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