Shanghai

About Shanghai

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.

Shanghai (2010) is a mystery thriller film directed by Mikael Håfström. John Cusack appears as Paul Soames, Gong Li as Anna Lan-Ting, Chow Yun-Fat as Anthony Lan-Ting, and David Morse as Richard Astor.

At 105 minutes long, it arrived in June 2010. Written by Hossein Amini. It was produced by Living Films.

Shelv files it under film noir, american abroad, female spy, and spy thriller. It streams on Howdy Amazon Channel, Lionsgate+ Amazon Channel, and Starz Apple TV channel in the United States. It scores 6.1 out of 10 from 202 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.

The Sea Chase, Grave of the Fireflies, and Red Sparrow make useful companions to Shanghai, all filed under pacific theater and world war ii.