Tsui Hark’s ‘Shanghai Blues’ Returns to Theatres This Summer

Through Film Movement Classics, legendary Hong Kong director Tsui Hark‘s Shanghai Blues returns to North American theatres this summer with a shiny new 4K restoration look.

A seminal classic of Tsui’s filmography, Shanghai Blues is set in 1937, after The Second Sino-Japanese War breaks out, a soldier and a young woman have an awkward meet cute in darkness under a bridge as they seek refuge during a bomb raid. Although they can’t see each other’s faces they promise to meet again after the dust settles. Ten years later the soldier, now a burgeoning songwriter and tuba-player in a marching band, is back in town desperately searching for his would-be soulmate. As fate would have it they end up living in the same building unbeknownst to each other. Through a series of mishaps he mistakes her new ingénue roommate for his love interest and wacky love triangle hijinks ensue.

The 4K restoration of Shanghai Blues was supervised from the original negative by Tsui Hark with L’Immagine Ritrovata and the soundtrack remixed by One Cool Sound.

Shanghai Blues will be playing at the following theatres and cities this summer: