Director Zhang Junzhao's superbly tense revisionist war film (featuring striking cinematography from future Fifth Generation standard bearer Zhang Yimou) is widely considered to be the first work of Mainland Fifth Generation cinema.
| Directing | Zhang Junzhao | Director |
| Writing | Ziliang Zhang | Screenplay |
| Camera | Zhang Yimou | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Xiao Feng | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Minghe Ci | Editor |