Tsui Hark’s masterpiece ‘Shanghai Blues’ is returning to theaters with a 40th anniversary 4K restoration, beginning June 20, 2025, form Film Movement.
Read More Tsui Hark’s masterpiece ‘Shanghai Blues’ is returning to theaters with a 40th anniversary 4K restoration, beginning June 20, 2025, form Film Movement.In 1937, after The Second Sino-Japanese War breaks out, a soldier and a young woman have an awkward meet cute in darkness under a bridge as they seek refuge during a bomb raid. Although they can’t see each other’s faces they promise to meet again after the dust settles. Ten years later the soldier, now a burgeoning songwriter and tuba-player in a marching band, is back in town desperately searching for his would-be soulmate. As fate would have it they end up living in the same building unbeknownst to each other. Through a series of mishaps he mistakes her new ingénue roommate for his love interest and wacky love triangle hijinks ensue. Consummate auteur Tsui Hark almost singlehandedly reinvented Hong Kong cinema in the 80’s and 90’s with uber-kinetic genre opuses, amping up cinematic spectacle whether with special effects or sheer unb