
In 1937 Shanghai, a soon-to-depart soldier meets a young woman under a bridge during a Japanese air raid. They vow to meet after the war ends, but they don't each other's name or face. Ten years later, the young woman, a nightclub singer, takes in a naive girl fresh from the country. The country girl falls in love with the would-be song-writer upstairs who, unbeknownst to the singer, is none other than the soldier from the bridge.... (Full plot summary below)
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In 1937 Shanghai, a soon-to-depart soldier meets a young woman under a bridge during a Japanese air raid. They vow to meet after the war ends, but they don't each other's name or face. Ten years later, the young woman, a nightclub singer, takes in a naive girl fresh from the country. The country girl falls in love with the would-be song-writer upstairs who, unbeknownst to the singer, is none other than the soldier from the bridge.
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| User ReviewAdriano BTsui Hark without martial art and a heartfelt tribute to cosmopolitic China (be it Shanghai or HK...): in a way, the style reminds me of an Italian "White Telephone" comedy of the '30s, so let me keep it in a soft spot of my cine-mongery. |
| User ReviewAlex STsui Hark's perfectly scaled neo-screwball romance that remembers the spirit of screwball lies more in the celebration of the optimistic, hardscrabble hope in people (with post-war China filling in for depression-era America) than any particular plot shenanigans. And the theme song will be stuck in your head forever. |
| User ReviewScott RThe kind of farce that is so bad it is almost good. |