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English. Budget. $50 million [1] Box office. $15.3 million [2] Shanghai is a 2010 American neo-noir [3] political thriller film directed by Mikael Håfström, starring John Cusack and Gong Li. The film was released in China on June 17, 2010. The film had a limited release in the United States on October 2, 2015, [4] to negative reviews and ...
Oct 2, 2015 · Shanghai: Directed by Mikael Håfström. With John Cusack, Gong Li, Chow Yun-Fat, David Morse. A '40s period piece which revolves around an American expat who returns to Shanghai in the months before Pearl Harbor due to the death of his friend.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Mikael Håfström
- 2015-10-02
Cusack was reluctant to do the film at first, but he gave his character dimension through referencing the English punk band The Clash, and The Replacements. In the film, Cusack became known for the infamous boombox scene, in which his character Lloyd stands near Diane’s bedroom window, and wordlessly holds up a cassette player above his head ...
Oct 2, 2015 · In the months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, an American intelligence official (John Cusack) investigates a friend's death in 1941 China.
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- Mikael Håfström
- R
- John Cusack
Oct 2, 2015 · John Cusack plays Paul Soames, an American spy who comes to Shanghai in October 1941, pretending to be a Nazi-sympathizing reporter for the Shanghai Herald, planning to meet up with his fellow spy friend Conner ( Jeffrey Dean Morgan ).
Oct 2, 2010 · Hossein Amini. Writer. An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.
Sep 30, 2015 · In late 1941, shortly before the Japanese would bomb Pearl Harbor and fully occupy Shanghai, an American spy named Paul Soames ( John Cusack) sails into the tumultuous Chinese city under...
