Shanghai Blues

About Shanghai Blues

In 1937 Shanghai, a soldier and a young woman have an awkward meet-cute in darkness under a bridge as they seek refuge during a bomb raid. Ten years later, the soldier, now a burgeoning songwriter and tuba player in a marching band, is back in town desperately searching for his would-be soulmate.

Tsui Hark's Shanghai Blues is a 1984 comedy romance film. Its themes are screwball comedy and 1940s.

Kenny Bee stars as Tung Kwok-Man, Sylvia Chang as Shu-Shu, Sally Yeh Chian-Wen as Stool, and Tin Ching as King Clown. It runs 103 minutes and was released in October 1984.

The screenplay is by John Chan Koon-Chung and Raymond To Kwok-Wai. In the United States it streams on Criterion Channel, Film Movement Plus, and Film Movement Plus Amazon Channel.

The Wasted Times and Saturday Fiction make useful companions to Shanghai Blues.