Shanghai Page #2

Synopsis: 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.
Director(s): Mikael Håfström
Production: The Weinistein Company
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
36
Rotten Tomatoes:
4%
R
Year:
2010
105 min
$44,689
306 Views


in Berlin before he joined us.

I'm sure most of you are already familiar

with his reputation.

Those who aren't

will have a chance to find out for themselves

in good time.

Right. Back to work.

How's it going, boys?

Paul Soames, Shanghai Herald.

Yeah, we set the meet with Conner's Japanese contact, Kita.

You got a pen?

Where is it?

A place called the Bamboo Tea House in the Japanese district.

He meets his girlfriend there...

...everyday at 3:00 pm.

At all clear,

he will open a book on the porch.

Paul, listen to me.

You'll be in the heart of the Japanese sector.

You be careful over there.

Tell us what you know about the resistance

Take him...

...in for questioning!

Papers.

Papers.

Move.

Move. You're under arrest.

"No threat to American interests"?

Sir?

You probably know this already, Mr. Soames...

...but when the owners of this newspaper told me

to hire you,

I threatened to resign.

The only reason I didn't

was because I wanted to meet you face to face...

...and see if you really believe this crap you write.

My office!

"Germany and Japan are no more our enemies

than Britain and Russia are our friends.

In a war of this magnitude

our only concern should be for ourselves."

The Japanese foreign minister

met with the German foreign minister yesterday...

...and one of the subjects they discussed

was whether my Jewish wife...

...should wear a yellow star on her jacket

and be herded into a Shanghai ghetto...

...along with the rest of her kind.

Now I think that should be a concern...

...for every civilized country in the world, even America.

I'm not a Nazi, if that's your implication, Mr. Sanger.

I've lived in Germany far too long

to have any illusions about what kind of people they are.

Now you can fire me, you can censor me--

I have no intention of firing you.

Write something that doesn't make my stomach

turn and I'll print it...

...otherwise you can type your fingers raw for all I care.

Will that be all, sir?

Yeah, get out.

Oh, and this came for you.

At least your Nazi friends are impressed.

Mrs. Mueller, thank you so much for the invitation.

It's lovely to see you, Mr. Soames.

My pleasure. Mr. Mueller.

Mr. Soames.

A party at the German embassy

could make one night feel like a thousand years.

Laughing at all their jokes

was like eating breakfast from the gutter.

The way I see it, for America to join the war...

...would be like a man who's never

been in a relationship interfering in a 50 year marriage.

Thank you for a wonderful party, Your Excellency.

I'm glad you're enjoying it, Mr. Lan-Ting.

You know everyone here, don't you?

Paul Soames.

Anthony Lan-Ting.

Gentlemen, excuse me.

These affairs had quite a guest list.

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Hossein Amini

Hossein Amini (Persian: حسین امینی‎; born 18 January 1966) is a British-Iranian screenwriter and film director. Amini has worked as a screenwriter since the early 1990s. He was nominated for numerous awards for the 1997 film The Wings of the Dove, including an Academy Award for Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay. He also won a "Best Adapted Screenplay" award from the Austin Film Critics Association for his screenplay adaptation of Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive (2011), based on the novel by James Sallis. For his directorial debut, he both wrote and directed The Two Faces of January, an adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel. more…

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