An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.
Cinematography
Ben Nott turns 1941 Shanghai into a humid dream you can almost smell.
Costume
Gong Li's qipaos deserve their own billing. Period detail is *chef's kiss*.
Acting
Chow Yun-Fat and Ken Watanabe doing more with silence than the script does with dialogue.
Director
Mikael Håfström
John Cusack
Paul Soames
Gong Li
Anna Lan-Ting
Chow Yun-Fat
Anthony Lan-Ting
Ken Watanabe
Tanaka
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Conner
David Morse
Richard Astor
Franka Potente
Leni Müller
Hugh Bonneville
Ben Sanger
Andy On Chi-Kit
Yum
Race Wong
Cabaret performer
Rosanne Wong
Cabaret performer
Michael Culkin
Billy
Hon Ping Tang
Chen
Benedict Wong
Juso Kita
Christopher Buchholz
Karl Müller
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