The plot of the film, inspired by novels “Death of Shanghai” by Hong Ying and “Shanghai” by Yokomitsu Riichi, is set over the course of one week in December of 1941, just before the Pearl Harbour attack. The film, however, opens with the rehearsal of the titular play at Lyceum Theatre. The huge star of Hong Kong cinema Jean Yu (the poster actress for the Chinese 5th Generation movies, Gong Li, in her sensitively luminous mode) is back after the years of absence to work with her former partner actor/director Tan Na (Mark Chao) on the play. But she is a woman with multiple secrets…
Read Marko Stojiljković's review for AMP here.
