1998, Color, 90 mins / in Mandarin with English subtitles

This is a complex love story of two lovers caught in the political turmoil of Shanghai in 1948, when corruption and inflation paralyzed that city. A Chinese journalist living in America returns to Shanghai to sell his family business and take his fianc¦e back with him to safety. His quest turns out to be not so simple. His fiancee refuses to sell the business and insists on remaining to help build a new China. The film is full of twists and turns in a stylish depiction of the last days of the old China and the first days of the new.

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