Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes

Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes (2015) is a 28-minute prequel short you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Alik Sakharov for Netflix. Tom Wu plays the warrior-monk before he earned his name — brought to Kublai Khan's court in chains, stripped of his sight, and turned into the blind master who eventually trained a Venetian merchant to survive at the edges of a vast empire.

Benedict Wong appears as Kublai Khan, Michelle Yeoh in a supporting role. The short fills in the gap the Marco Polo series left open, and does it without padding — tight craft, direct storytelling. Stream Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes online on iFILM.