On January 6, the movie "Chinese Ping Pong: Jedi Counterattack" announced that it will be released on the first day of the Lunar New Year in 2023 (January 22).

Finalized poster of "Chinese Ping Pong: Jedi Counterattack"

Directed by Deng Chao and Yu Baimei, the film is adapted from a true story and tells the story of China's table tennis from a trough to a desperate counterattack in the early 1990s.​

In the film, the five national table tennis tigers played by Xu Weizhou, Duan Bowen, Cai Yida, Ding Guansen, and Sun Xilun usher in victory, and they all have prototypes.

Character posters, each character has a prototype

As of press time, there are a total of 7 movies scheduled for the Spring Festival in 2023. In addition to "Chinese Ping Pong: The Jedi Strikes Back", there is also "The Wandering Earth 2" directed by Guo Fan, starring Wu Jing and others, directed by Zhang Yimou, Shen Teng, Yi Yangqian "Man Jianghong" starring Xi et al., "Anonymous" directed by Cheng Er, starring Tony Leung, Wang Yibo, etc., "Exchanging Life" directed by Su Lun, starring Lei Jiayin, Zhang Xiaofei, Zhang Youhao, and the cartoon "Deep Sea" "Bear Infested Stay with Me" "Bear Core".

7 movies have been scheduled for the Spring Festival in 2023, which can be regarded as another big year for the Spring Festival in the past ten years. Except for the closure of theaters due to the epidemic in 2020, the final number of movies released during the Spring Festival since 2014 is as follows: 5 in 2014, 7 in 2015, 3 in 2016, 6 in 2017, 5 in 2018, and 2019 7 in 2021, 7 in 2021, and 5 in 2022.