Interwar Shanghai: 1920–1941

Chen Zhen a Chinese engineering student in Kyoto who braves the insults and abuse of his Japanse fellow students for his local love Mitsuko Yamada daughter of the director returns in 1937 to his native Shangai under…

In 1937 eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield completely surrounded by the Japanese army.

Set in the late 1920s The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul and…

The Japanese forces occupy Shanghai and slowly start spreading terror in the city. Chen Zhen who was presumed dead returns to fight against the Japanese and put an end to their tyrannical rule.

A young prostitute who is trying to give her infant son a good start in life must contend with a coercive pimp and the prejudices of others.

A laborer moves to Shanghai in the hope of becoming rich. But ends up using his kung fu skills to survive. Remake of The Boxer From Shantung.

While battling a psychic gambler Sing hurtles back in time to 1937 Shanghai. Now he must come to grips with his family history and get back to 1991.

Shanghai China 1930. When young Shuisheng arrives from the countryside his uncle Liushu puts him at the service of Bijou the mistress of Laoda supreme boss of the Tang Triad constantly threatened by his enemies both…

In 1930s Shanghai 'The White Countess' is both Sofia—a fallen member of the Russian aristocracy—and a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat who asks Sofia to be the centerpiece of the world he wants to create.

Based on the tragic true story of China's first prima donna of the silver screen Ruan Lingyu chronicling her rise to fame as a movie actress in Shanghai during the 1930s.