9° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Special Event - Hong Kong 1985-1991
Shang Hai yi jiu er ling
by Leong Po-chih
Country: Hong Kong
Year: 1991
Duration: 137'
Shanghai has figured in the title of many films to lend them an exotic and mysterious air. The city has long had a reputation as the most wicked city in the world. Fully deserved or not, the city's renown carne in part from it having being a centre of international colonial capitalistic exploitation. In the years before World War II, the English, the French, and the Americans were all there churning out money from shipping, silk, and the everpopular opium, all the while subjugating the Chinese. Leong Pochih's film is set in the Shanghai of those prewar years. Dawson the son of a wealthy American shipper and Fong a streetsmart Chinese gambler meet as boys. A terrifying and murderous encounter involving opium separates the two for years. In 1935 Dawson returns to Shanghai, finds Fong, and the pail begin working together in a shipping business. Soon, Fong is leading the two into the dark realm of the Triads where prostitution, gambling, and drugs are the name of the game.
Biography
film director
Leong Po-chih
Leong Po-chih was born in 1939 in London, England. He studied at the London Film School and then joined the BBC as a trainee film editor He moved to Hong Kong in 1967 to set up a film unit for TVB. The following year he was promoted to executive producer and produced countless television programmes. In 1969, he left TVB to form his own advertising company.
FILMOGRAFIA
Jumping Ash (1967), Foxbat (1977), Itchy Fingers (1979), No Big Deal (1980), Super Fool (1981), He Lives By Night (1982), Banana Cop (1984), Hong Kong 1941 (1984), Welcome (1985), The Island (1985), Ping Pong (1986), Fatal Love (1988), Shanghai 1920 (1991).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Leong Pochih
Screenplay: Timothy R. Long, Michael Laughlin.
Director of photography: Walter Gregg, Joe Chan.
Art director: Ingrid Kwan, Mark Chiu.
Editor: Wiiliam Parker.
Music: Kitaro.
Sound: Tom Tholen, Curtis Choy.
Cast and characters: John Lone (Fong), Adrian Pasdar (Dawson), Keone Young (Ming), Fennie Yuen (Mei), Billy Cohen (Dawson da giovane / Young Dawson), Loretta Lee (Mabel), Wong Chung Yiu, Wong Che Keung, Eric Michael Zee, Lau Siu Ming.
Director of Production: Jim Choi.
Production company: Fu Ngai Film Production Co. Ltd., Flat C, 1/F, 17 Austin Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, tel. 8523694561, fax 8523110377.
Foreign sales agent: Shu Kei's Creative Workshop Ltd., Flat F, Tonnochy Tower, 272 Jaffe Road, Hong Kong, tel. 8387729/8348263, fax 8389206
Screenplay: Timothy R. Long, Michael Laughlin.
Director of photography: Walter Gregg, Joe Chan.
Art director: Ingrid Kwan, Mark Chiu.
Editor: Wiiliam Parker.
Music: Kitaro.
Sound: Tom Tholen, Curtis Choy.
Cast and characters: John Lone (Fong), Adrian Pasdar (Dawson), Keone Young (Ming), Fennie Yuen (Mei), Billy Cohen (Dawson da giovane / Young Dawson), Loretta Lee (Mabel), Wong Chung Yiu, Wong Che Keung, Eric Michael Zee, Lau Siu Ming.
Director of Production: Jim Choi.
Production company: Fu Ngai Film Production Co. Ltd., Flat C, 1/F, 17 Austin Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, tel. 8523694561, fax 8523110377.
Foreign sales agent: Shu Kei's Creative Workshop Ltd., Flat F, Tonnochy Tower, 272 Jaffe Road, Hong Kong, tel. 8387729/8348263, fax 8389206
