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Shanghai Triad is a 1995 Chinese crime-drama film, directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Gong Li. The script is written by Bi Feiyu based on Li Xiao's 1994 novel Rules of a Clan (门规). The film is set in the criminal underworld of 1930s Shanghai, Republic of China and spans seven days.
Dec 22, 1995 · Shanghai Triad: Directed by Yimou Zhang. With Gong Li, Baotian Li, Xiaoxiao Wang, Xuejian Li. A provincial boy related to a Shanghai crime family is recruited by his uncle into cosmopolitan Shanghai in the 1930s to be a servant to a ganglord's mistress.
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- Crime, Drama, History
- Yimou Zhang
- 1995-12-22
When teenager Shuisheng (Wang Xiaoxiao Cuihua) arrives to Shanghai from the country, he is brought by his uncle (Li Xuejian) to work for gang leader Tang (Baotian Li).
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- Yimou Zhang
- R
- Gong Li
Jun 25, 2020 · Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee, SHANGHAI TRIAD is a thrilling and sumptuously stylized potboiler about the Chinese criminal underworld of the 1930s from legendary...
- 1 min
- 27.3K
- Film Movement
Feb 16, 1996 · The story of a gang boss in 1930s Shanghai and his willful, troublesome mistress, it's seen through the eyes of a small boy from the country who loses his innocence in eight bloody days. Yimou and Li's great works together, starting in 1987, were " Red Sorghum ," " Ju Dou ," " Raise the Red Lantern ," "The Story of Qui Ju" and " To Live ."
Shanghai Triad. Hired as a servant for pampered nightclub singer and mob moll Xiao Jinbao naive teenager Shuisheng is thrust into the glamorous and deadly demimonde of 1930s Shanghai.
A provincial boy related to a Shanghai crime family is recruited by his uncle into cosmopolitan Shanghai in the 1930s to be a servant to a ganglord's mistress. Uncle Liu brings his cousin to Shanghai to work for 'Boss,' the leader of a powerful drug empire in the 1930's.
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