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Shanghai Blues

A typically colourful, good-natured and silly romp from director-producer-legend Tsui Hark, this historical-romantic-slapstick comedy takes a time-honoured romantic storyline and spins it into a lot of daft complications. The charmingly-named Kenny Bee plays Tung Kwok-Man, a musician/clown who meets Shu-Shu (Sylvia Chang) as they both shelter beneath a bridge during the 1937 Japanese invasion. It’s love at no sight, since the setting is too dark for them to see each other, but they promise to meet again after the war.

The bulk of the action takes place during the post-war period of economic collapse (toilet paper costs so much it’s cheaper to use money) but the tone is consistently light ...

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1983), he became something close to the local equivalent of George Lucas. However, instead of churning out a series of inferior sequels, Hark has plunged into every kind of commercial cinema his homeland offers. A genre filmmaker to his core, he has worked with most of the major martial arts stars, as well as making science fiction, comedies, fantasies and ghost stories, sometimes combining several of the above into one film. One of the first filmmakers to accelerate the pace of cutting in his action sequences until the audience has to struggle to keep up, his work nevertheless seems a model of coherence compared to the excesses of the modern Hollywood blockbuster. With a mastery of swooping shaky-cam, snappy montages and rapid-fire performances, Tsui’s oeuvre is far from consistent in quality, but his profligate productivity and boundless energy are worthy of awe.

Part backstage musical, part farce, part romance, the film offers a mix of genres that is nothing strange to ...

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Added: 11/23/2011 03:47:15 PM
Submitted By: msnc
Category: Film & Theater
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