It’s off to the 2024 Cannes Film Festival next month in May for HK director Peter Chan and top C-actress Zhang Zi Yi in their highly anticipated and award fodder movie She Has No Name (酱园弄). It’s a movie depicting an infamous real life murder case in 1945 Shanghai where an abused wife with just the surname Chan killed her drunken abuser husband and dismembered him into 16 pieces strewn into suitcases. This case blanketed the city newspapers of that era with and the wife was initially sentenced to death before it was commuted to a 15 year sentence. Movie fans are excited to see Zhang Zi Yi’s intensity onscreen playing this wife and reportedly her life story over the decades has become a rallying call for women in China living in domestic abuse and dreaming of a way out.