"This is Shanghai. There are hidden rules in everything you do and say." Film Movement has unveiled a new trailer for the restored re-release of Zhang Yimou's Shanghai Triad, celebrating 25 years since its original release in 1995. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995, then opened in Us cinemas in December that year. It won a special prize for Best Cinematography in Cannes, then went on to earn an Oscar nomination also for Best Cinematography. In the film, a provincial boy related to a Shanghai crime family is recruited by his uncle into Shanghai in the 1930s to be a servant to a ganglord's mistress. Over the course of seven days, he observes mounting tensions as triad boss Tang begins to suspect traitors amongst his ranks. Shanghai Triad is described as "a thrilling and sumptuously stylized potboiler about the Chinese criminal underworld of the 1930s from legendary director Zhang Yimou.
- 6/29/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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