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  1. Shanghai Triad is a 1995 Chinese crime-drama film, directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Gong Li. The script is written by Bi Feiyu based on Li Xiao 's 1994 novel Rules of a Clan (门规). The film is set in the criminal underworld of 1930s Shanghai , Republic of China and spans seven days.

  2. Dec 22, 1995 · Shanghai Triad: Directed by Yimou Zhang. With Gong Li, Baotian Li, Xiaoxiao Wang, Xuejian Li. A provincial boy related to a Shanghai crime family is recruited by his uncle into cosmopolitan Shanghai in the 1930s to be a servant to a ganglord's mistress.

  3. Jun 25, 2020 · Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee, SHANGHAI TRIAD is a thrilling and sumptuously stylized potboiler about the Chinese criminal underworld of the 1930s from legendary director Zhang Yimou...

  4. Well-acted and beautifully filmed, Shanghai Triad deftly depicts a young man's coming of age against the backdrop of mob violence and its punishing legacy. Read Critics Reviews

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    • Crime, Drama
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  5. Dec 1, 1995 · Shanghai Triad opens in theaters beginning December 20. Read about the controversy behind the film. Zhang Yimou, the acclaimed Chinese director of JU DOU , RAISE THE RED LANTERN, and THE STORY OF QIU JU, spins an epic tale of greed, revenge and lust for power set against the Shanghai opium wars of the 1930's.

  6. Feb 16, 1996 · "Shanghai Triad" may be the last, and is certainly the least, of the collaborations between the Chinese director Zhang Yimou and the gifted actress Gong Li. The story of a gang boss in 1930s Shanghai and his willful, troublesome mistress, it's seen through the eyes of a small boy from the country who loses his innocence in eight bloody days.

  7. A provincial boy related to a Shanghai crime family is recruited by his uncle into cosmopolitan Shanghai in the 1930s to be a servant to a ganglord's mistress. Uncle Liu brings his cousin to Shanghai to work for 'Boss,' the leader of a powerful drug empire in the 1930's.

  8. Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Shanghai Triad is an absorbing tale of the Chinese underworld in the 1930's, focusing on a pampered night club singer, Xiao (Gong Li), who...

  9. Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee, Shanghai Triad is a thrilling and sumptuously stylized potboiler about the Chinese criminal underworld of the 1930's from legendary director Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, House of Flying Daggers).

  10. May 25, 1995 · Covering eight days in the fortunes of Shanghai’s most powerful triad, yarn starts with the arrival from the countryside of young Tang Shuisheng (Wang Xiaoxiao), a naive member of the clan who...