Shanghai

Shanghai

In a world filled with secrets, solving a mystery can be murder.

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Release Date

6/10/2010

Runtime

105 mins

Overview

An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$50,000,000

Revenue

$15,302,850

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A noir-soaked espionage thriller set in occupied Shanghai where personal mystery and romantic entanglement pull an American deeper into government conspiracy and international intrigue. The film moves between intimate character drama and larger questions of loyalty and complicity on the eve of war.

Mood

TenseMelancholicParanoid

Themes

BetrayalWarIdentityObsession

Pacing

Steady

Look

High-contrastNaturalistic

Structure

Nonlinear

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Graphic violence

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