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 can be current on the screening in Cannes, the place the Classics program can be celebrating its twentieth 12 months on the competition.
Tsui Hark and Nansun Shi supervised the 4K restoration of the unique destructive, in collaboration with L’Immagine Ritrovata. The Shanghai Blues soundtrack was remixed by One Cool Sound.
Set in Shanghai within the 12 months 1937, a soldier (Kenny Bee) crosses path with a younger girl (Sylvia Chang) underneath a bridge throughout a Japanese air raid and so they vow to fulfill after the warfare 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 in addition screened on the Worldwide Movie Pageant Rotterdam in 1986 in addition to the Berlinale in 1987.
