Chinese actress Liu Xiaoqing, 67, plays 17-year-old girl in new movie

Chinese actress Liu Xiaoqing's casting in the new war film has drawn flak from netizens. Photos: Liu Xiaoqing/Weibo, Handout

Chinese actress Liu Xiaoqing has left netizens baffled after playing a character five decades younger than her in the war movie, Ice Sniper 2.

Set in 1947 after the Siping Campaign in China, the film tells the story of platoon leader Yang Jianfeng who assigns bandit leader Dan Niang to eliminate the different factions of mountain bandits in Northeastern China.