A 4K restoration of Shanghai Blues by Hong Kong filmmaker Tsui Hark will display screen within the Cannes Classics part to mark the movie’s fortieth anniversary since its 1984 premiere.
Main actress Sylvia Chang might be current on the screening in Cannes, the place the Classics program can be celebrating its twentieth yr on the pageant.
Tsui Hark and Nansun Shi supervised the 4K restoration of the unique adverse, in collaboration with L’Immagine Ritrovata. The Shanghai Blues soundtrack was remixed by One Cool Sound.
Set in Shanghai within the yr 1937, a soldier (Kenny Bee) crosses path with a younger lady (Sylvia Chang) beneath a bridge throughout a Japanese air raid and so they vow to fulfill after the conflict ends. A few years later, they meet once more though they don’t acknowledge one another.
Throughout its preliminary run, Shanghai Blues obtained eight nominations on the Hong Kong Movie Awards and likewise screened on the Worldwide Movie Competition Rotterdam in 1986 in addition to the Berlinale in 1987.