Mojin - The Lost Legend (2015) on Netflix
Tomb explorers Hu Bayi, Wang Kaixuan and Shirley Yang retire to New York. A mysterious businesswoman pulls the three of them back to Inner Mongolia in search of a Mongolian princess's tomb.
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Plot summary
Three tomb raiders known as Mojin, Hu Bayi, Wang Kaixuan and Shirley Yang, give up the trade and settle in New York in 1988. Bayi and Shirley have become a couple, while Kaixuan thinks the States offer the Mojin less than they deserve. Bayi keeps dreaming of Ding Sitian, his first love and Kaixuan's, who was thought to have died twenty years earlier in a tomb under the Mongolian plains. Kaixuan is drawn into a deal to locate a Mongolian princess's grave. A mysterious businesswoman, Ying Caihong, then pulls the three of them to Inner Mongolia with the same goal in mind.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mojin - The Lost Legend (2015)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Chinese filmmakers feared the subject of grave robbing and treasures smuggled abroad would be taboo on screen, and the project became one of the Chinese industry's most anticipated films over its three-and-a-half-year production.
- The film overtook Monster Hunt ($27.0 million) to become the highest-grossing Chinese-language IMAX film in China with $27.1 million; among all films, only Furious 7 ($39 million) earned more.
- The film earned US$26.4 million on its opening day in China, the highest-grossing opening day for a 3D local-language film, a total that includes a record US$1.34 million from midnight screenings.
