Country: China
Language: Chinese
Year: 2005
Running Time: 120 min
Set in the early 1980’s, against the backdrop of China’s reform and opening, SHANGHAI DREAMS is the story of first love. The protagonist, nineteen-year-old Qing Hong, comes from a typical emigrant family who relocated to Guizhou Province from their hometown of Shanghai in the mid 1960’s. Her father is eager to go back to Shanghai, but for Qing Hong, the choice to relocate is complicated by her budding romance with Hong Gen, a young man from a local peasant family.
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Director
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Wang Xiaoshuai
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Producer
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Pi Li
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Executive Producer
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Li Huatong
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Executive Producer
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Li Wei
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Associate Producer
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Wang Xiaoshuai
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Production Company
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Debo Films Ltd.
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Production Company
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Kingwood Ltd.
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Production Company
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Stellar Magamedia
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Screenplay
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Lao Ni
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Art Director
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Zhang Wu
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Editor
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Yang Hongyu
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Sound
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Long Xiaozhu
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Sound
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Zhang Jingyan
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Lighting
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Sun Hongchen
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Costume
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Pang Yan
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Dai Wenyan
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as Xiao Zhen's mother
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Gao Yuanyuan
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as Qinghong
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Li Bin
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as Fan Honggen
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Lin Yuan
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as Xiao Zhen's father
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Qin Hao
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as Lu Jun
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Tang Yang
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as Meifen
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Wang Xiaofan
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as Qinghongs's brother
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Wang Xueyang
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as Xiao Zhen
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Yan Anlian
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as Wu Zemin
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Winner Prix de Jury Cannes, Best Film Antalya, Best Eurasian Film Tallinn, from the director of THE DAYS, FROZEN, SO CLOSE TO PARADISE, DRIFTERS and BEIJING BYCICLE
Wang Xiaoshuai, born in Shanghai (China) on 22 May 1965. He is generally considered to be the most gifted of China's 'Sixth Generation' directors, and supporters of his work include Quentin Tarantino and Atom Egoyan. He studied art and graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1988. He became an assistant director at the Fujiang Film Studio. He was instrumental in putting together the film MAMA, the directing of which was eventually credited to Zhang Yuan. He wrote and directed his first feature film, THE DAYS, in 1993. This film received critical acclaim in the West but was blacklisted by the Chinese board of censors, as was its director. At the end of 1995 he joined the Beijing Film Studio and directed A VIETNAMESE GIRL, which was also censured. After 3 years of cutting at the editing table (and a title changed into SO CLOSE TO PARADISE the film is finally passed by the censors. SO CLOSE TO PARADISE was selected for the Cannes Film Festival in 1999 in the "Un Certain Regard" section. BEIJING BICYCLE, his fifth feature film, obtained the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2001.
2010 CHONGQING BLUES
2007 IN LOVE WE TRUST
2005 SHANGHAI DREAMS
2003 DRIFTERS
2002 AFTER WAR
2001 BEIJING BICYCLE
1998 SO CLOSE TO PARADISE
1997 FROZEN
1994 SUICIDES
1993 THE DAYS