What are some good movies that take place in Shanghai?

[Iron_Leopard]

Old or new. Historical or modern.

List some movies that do a good job that capture this city.

[TibetanWhiteCrane]

Actually filmed in Shanghai or set there?

[Iron_Leopard]

20 minutes ago, TibetanWhiteCrane said:

Actually filmed in Shanghai or set there?

Let's go with both. Filmed and set there.

[TibetanWhiteCrane]

Well, filmed you either have to go back before WWII or thereabouts or after China opened up for non-communist-propaganda filmmaking, so either way, I don't think you're gonna find what you're looking for. Of course in the last 10-20 years there have been shot some films there of the action variety but none that I care about so I must defer to someone else for that info.

[TibetanWhiteCrane]

Set, only a few comes to mind like Vengeance!, Shanghai, Shanghai, Boxer from Shantung (maybe), and a bunch of early 70's bashers that I'm blanking on at the moment.

[tdb]

Kung Fu Hustle (2004)

God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai (1991)

[ShawAngela]

Isn't Miracles a movie set in Shanghai too ?

[TibetanWhiteCrane]

23 minutes ago, ShawAngela said:

Isn't Miracles a movie set in Shanghai too ?

No, HK.

[ShawAngela]

12 minutes ago, TibetanWhiteCrane said:

36 minutes ago, ShawAngela said:

Isn't Miracles a movie set in Shanghai too ?

No, HK.

Well, I have to revise my classics, then !!

[ShawAngela]

I can only think of series, here : The Bund with Chow Yun Fat, Once upon a time in Shanghai with Adam Cheng, Hero from Shanghai with Gallen Lo and Storm in Shanghai, with Adam Cheng.

Yet, It seems to me that Chow Yun Fat played in a movie related to Shanghai, but the title escapes to me...

[TibetanWhiteCrane]

The alternate titles of Mr. Canton and Lady Rose or Canton Godfather is a clue  

[TibetanWhiteCrane]

Just now, ShawAngela said:

Yet, It seems to me that Chow Yun Fat played in a movie related to Shanghai, but the title escapes to me...

It's called Shanghai...

[HyperDrive]

Shanghai 13

Shanghai Heroic Story

Bloody Brothers

Shanghai Massacre

Big Boss of Shanghai

[TibetanWhiteCrane]

99% of HK films set in Shanghai, is of course not shot there, so if it's actual Shanghai sights OP is after, that is not the place to look. And yeah, most of the Shanghai settings are not that elaborate or reflective of the real city. It's Taiwan, HK or the Beijing film studios dressed up.... just so we're clear.

 

[ShawAngela]

Layout, maybe ?

Shaws' own remake of vengeance : Hero (at least, the synopsis says that Takeshi Kaneshiro goes to Shanghai...).

Flowers of Shanghai

[TibetanWhiteCrane]

5 minutes ago, ShawAngela said:

Shaws' own remake of vengeance : Hero (at least, the synopsis says that Takeshi Kaneshiro goes to Shanghai...).

 

It is set there, but a remake of Boxer from Shantung. 

Shanghai Grand is another one.

[ShawAngela]

2 minutes ago, TibetanWhiteCrane said:

remake of Boxer from Shantung. 

Yes, of course, I made a mistake, thanks ! It's because I was thinking of David Chiang !!

[Iron_Leopard]

1 minute ago, ShawAngela said:

Yes, of course, I made a mistake, thanks ! It's because I was thinking of David Chiang !!

When are you not thinking of David Chiang? Lol that's your boy.

[panku]

All the Ma Su Chen and Ma Yuen Chen films like Queen Boxer / Ma Su Chen / Chow Ken / Furious Slaughter / Kung Fu Mama etc.

To Kill a Jaguar with Chung Hua and Nora Miao

[panku]

Fist of Fury
Great Shanghai 1937 (d. Chang Cheh)
Shanghai Massacre (d. Lee Tso Nam)
On the Society File of Shanghai - Modern 1981 story of rebellious youth
Killer's Nocturne (Alex Man / Chin Siu Ho) if you like more hollywood production style

[CT KID]

It's been a long while since I watched Shanghai Express but can't remember if the city was featured in it at all as it was set on the train for the most part except for the finale.

 

[ShawAngela]

1 hour ago, Iron_Leopard said:

When are you not thinking of David Chiang? Lol that's your boy.

There is a hard competition between him and Adam Cheng !!

[ShawAngela]

In my dvd of Fearless Golden Dragon, there were some previews of other movies and the English trailer of Billy Chong's The Kung Fu Executioner says that the story takes place in Shanghai.