Shanghai Blues is a Hong Kong comedy film directed and produced by Tsui Hark in his producing debut, which had its premiere in 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 at a Shanghai night club, and after the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Gwok-man is seized by patriotic zeal, and prepares to join the army. As the Japanese fighter planes attack Shanghai, Gwok-man meets a young girl named Aak-syu while they are sheltering together from the bombs under Suzhou Bridge and they fall in love, promising each other to 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.