Once Upon a Time in Shanghai / 1996

Once Upon a Time in Shanghai, also known as New Bund, is a Hong Kong television series and a remake of the 1980 television series The Bund. It was first aired on TVB in Hong Kong in 1996. The series starred Sunny Chan, Gordon Lam and Nadia Chan as the original characters Hui Man-keung, Ting Lik and Fung Ching-ching respectively. It introduced some new...

Once Upon a Time in Shanghai / 2014

Il protagonista Ma è un campagnolo che viene dalla provincia e che per cercare fortuna si reca a Shanghai: qui la similitudine con la New York anni 20-30 che ben conosciamo nel panorama cinematografico è addirittura smaccata; il bastimento che approccia la terra ferma e che scarica nel ventre della città fiumi di indigenti in cerca di fortuna è l'equivalente delle navi che solcavano l'atlantico e che rovesciavano ad Ellis Islands i poveracci di tutta Europa.

Once Upon a Time in Shanghai / 1996

Set in 1930s Shanghai, the story opens with legendary gambler Gon and his vow to recover his father's casino from Shanghai tycoon Fung In his quest, he becomes acquainted with Sou and uncovers her fiance's nefarious conspiracy. Sou gives her heart to Gon, but he can't forget his old love Gu. Meanwhile, up-and-coming gangster Hui Man Keung is quickly...

Once Upon a Time in Shanghai / 2018

Welcome to Shanghai. No, not the Chinese megalopolis full of neon and nouveaux riches, but precisely the opposite: an eponymous slum in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. In the distance, skyscrapers built with oil money tower above the city, but here dilapidated houses are packed along a single railway line. The slum is scheduled for demolition, and now and again a child is killed by one of the freight trains slowly chugging by. When the German director Veit Helmer arrives in Shanghai to make a feature film, feelings quickly run high. The locals are afraid that he wants to make them look ridiculous. The young Azerbaijani filmmaker Leyli Gafarova succeeds however in gaining the inhabitants’ trust and films a choppy, playful portrait of Shanghai in the margins of the feature film production. In the guise of a making-of, she shows intimate fragments of life in the slum, while it’s still standing.

Once Upon a Time in Shanghai / 1998

The protagonists are mainly Huirong, Zhaobai, and Jikan, who have studied business management in the USA and have returned to their hometown, Shanghai. Huirong and Zhaobai are engaged, and although three of them are close friends, problems arise when they find out that their opinions clash on the matter of what the objective for building a new China should be and what direction it should take.

Once Upon a Time Hamlet & Ophelia Were In Shanghai... / 2019