Shanghai Blues
Shanghai Blues (Chinese:上海之夜) is a Hong Kong comedy film directed and produced by Tsui Hark in his producer debut, which had its premiere on September 1984. Kenny Bee, Sylvia Chang and Sally Yeh starred in this film. The music is composed by Wong Jim. The film has been selected as one of the Top 10 Chinese films of 1984 at Hong Kong International Film Festival. This was the first film that Hark produced under his new company, Film Workshop.
Plot
Dung Gwok-man and Aak-suk are both clowns of a night club, after the breaking out of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Gwok-man is inspired by patriotism thought, and prepared for joining the army. The Japanese battleplanes are bombing Shanghai, Gwok-man meet with a young girl named Aak-syu and they agree that they would meet at Suzhou Bridge after the war. Ten years pass, and Gwok-man returns to Shanghai to look for Aak-syu, but only meets several vagrant veterans.
More details
author | Raymond To |
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contentLocation | Shanghai |
director | Tsui Hark |
editor | Siu Sum Chew |
genre | comedy |
keywords | annoy assault beauty contest bomb bos break find a job help joining the army magic potion night club old lady queen b rich man second sino-japanese war wander young girl |
musicBy | James Wong Jim |
producer | Tsui Hark |
publisher | Tsui Hark Movie Studio |
theme | romantic comedy war |