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Yao a yao, yao dao wai po qiao [videorecording] = Shanghai triad / Shanghai Film Studio, Alpha-Films, UGC Images, and La Sept Cinema ; produced by Jean-Louis Piel ; directed by Zhang Yimou.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 11857 | Columbia TriStar Home VideoLanguage: Chinese Subtitle language: English, Spanish Series: Sony Pictures classicsPublication details: [Culver City, CA] : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c2000.Edition: Widescreen versionDescription: 1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 0767848888
  • 9780767848886
Other title:
  • Shanghai triad
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Yue Lu; production design, Juiping Cao; editor, Yuan Du; music, Zhang Guangtian.
Cast: Gong Li, Li Baotian, Li Xuejian, Sun Chun, Wang Xiaoxiao.Summary: A young boy fresh from the countryside is assigned to serve the girlfriend of an organized crime boss. A bloody assault forces the wounded boss and his assistants to a remote island, where they re-group and plan their strategy of revenge. Meanwhile, his girlfriend befriends the boy and two naive neighbors with tragic results.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Country boy Shuisheng (Wang Xiaoxiao) is brought to 1930s Shanghai by his uncle who wants the boy to become a member of the powerful gang ruled by manipulative Tang (Li Baotian). In fact, Shuisheng will serve Tang's capricious mistress Bijou (Gong Li), a nightclub singer whom the boss proclaimed "the Queen of Shanghai." When the boy's uncle and the gang's several other members die during a rival gang's unsuccessful attempt on Tang's life, the latter retreats to a remote small island, taking both Bijou and Shuisheng with him and thinking of revenge. The film's English-language title is a little bit deceiving (the original Chinese title translates to "Row, Row, Row to Grandmother's Bridge," a line in Tang's favorite song performed by Bijou), as this drama centers more on the boy's coming of age and Bijou's disillusionment than on Shanghai gang wars. ~ Yuri German, Rovi

Freely adapted from the novel Gang Law by Li Xiao.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1994.

Director of photography, Yue Lu; production design, Juiping Cao; editor, Yuan Du; music, Zhang Guangtian.

Gong Li, Li Baotian, Li Xuejian, Sun Chun, Wang Xiaoxiao.

A young boy fresh from the countryside is assigned to serve the girlfriend of an organized crime boss. A bloody assault forces the wounded boss and his assistants to a remote island, where they re-group and plan their strategy of revenge. Meanwhile, his girlfriend befriends the boy and two naive neighbors with tragic results.

DVD.

In Chinese with English and Spanish subtitles.

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