Shanghai Blues
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Director: Tsui Hark
1984 / 103min / DCP
Beginning against the backdrop of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the inimitable Tsui’s kinetic, ultra-stylish screwball comedy/historical romance/backstage musical—beautifully restored for the occasion of its 40th anniversary—is one of the most zestily entertaining and exuberantly colorful works of 1980s Hong Kong cinema. Kenny Bee’s nightclub clown and would-be songwriter meets-cute with chanteuse Sylvia Chang under a bridge during a 1937 bombing raid and the two make plans to find each other 10 years later, only to have their reunion in devastated postwar Shanghai elaborately and often hilariously complicated by intervening fate. An incredibly tender and terribly funny film, with Cantopop diva Sally Yeh giving a particularly inspired turn as Chang’s scatterbrained roommate.
Celebrating its 40th anniversary, this 4K restoration comes with new dialect dubbing and improved English subtitles.
The 4K restoration of Shanghai Blues was supervised from the original negative by Tsui Hark with L’Immagine Ritrovata and the soundtrack remixed by One Cool Sound.
Preceded by an introduction from director Tsui Hark recorded especially for this restoration re-release on Thursday, July 3rd
A Film Movement release
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