The film Dead to Rights is a 2025 Chinese historical drama based on the true story of a photographer's apprentice who secretly developed and compiled evidence of Japanese war atrocities during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The film depicts the story of Luo Jin, who discovered negatives containing images of atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers and, risking his life, developed and compiled them into an album for later exposure.
- True story: The film is based on real events and a real person.
- Subject: It covers the atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers during the Second Sino-Japanese War and a photographer's apprentice who documented them.
- Protagonist: Luo Jin, an apprentice at the Huadong Photo Studio in Nanjing, discovered the evidence while developing film.
- Plot: Luo Jin secretly developed and compiled the compromising images into an album, which he hid for later exposure.