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Synopsis: Shanghai. 1936. Crossroads of the world and into this city of political intrigue comes Sofia, a Russian Countess who, with the remains of her family, has been left stateless by the Revolution. Forced by her reduced circumstances to support herself and her family as a bar-girl and taxi dancer, Sofia forms a relationship with Jackson, a blind former diplomat who opens an elegant bar; The White Countess. Their curious relationship matures but they are caught up in the fall of the city to the Japanese invaders.
Director(s): James Ivory
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
60
Rotten Tomatoes:
49%
PG-13
Year:
2005
135 min
$1,641,467
Website
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My, my, this is a surprise.

I didn't expect to meet you

in a place like this.

We better keep this from your dad, eh?

I came to look for you, sir.

I thought you might want a little company.

Oh, that's good of you.

Mr. Jackson, what are you doing here?

A place like this.

this is a dive.

Dive?

Well, this establishment here, Thomas,

may not be perfect.

Oh, no, it's not perfect at all.

In my opinion, it's a mighty impressive

little place all the same.

Mr. Jackson, a man of your fine reputation--

this is Shanghai, Thomas.

A person can do much as he pleases.

-But I think you might be more comfortable--

-Thomas, my friend...

why don't you go home

and get some sleep?

I don't like you wandernig around

these parts of town.

I feel kind of responsable for you

on account of your dad.

Anything happens to you here,

I feel I would have to answer to him.

Now go on home to bed.

Me, I've got a few things still to do up here.

Well, then.

-Good night, sir.

-Good night, Thomas.

Pardon me.

Excuse me.

-How are you?

-Fine. How are you?

-Fine.

-Dragon, please.

-Thank you. Goodbye.

-Goodbye.

Please forgive me, sir,

but I couldn't help overhearing.

That young man, he is your protege?

No, hardly.

He, like most people, fanls to see...

all there is to see.

Myself, I tend to agree

with your assessment.

this establishment is not perfect...

but it is certanily one of the best

Shanghai has to offer at this moment.

I believe, sir,

I've seen you around here before.

It's very possible.

We have nothing to match this in Japan.

Not even in Tokyo.

Shanghan these days is remarkable.

It has several places

of comparable standard.

These places you say

are of a comparable standard...

-just which ones did you have in mind?

-Not far from here, there is the Navy Bar.

-Navy Bar.

-I personally fnid it very interesting.

Then there is the Wha Kim

in the French Concession.

And perhaps...

the Last Chance in Foochow road.

Myself, I'd add the Ching Lieng to that list.

Ching Lieng, I wonder--

Ching Lieng isn't so much to your taste?

It is very interesting,

but in my personal opinion...

perhaps not at quite the same level as...

-well, for instance, here.

-You may be right.

But I like him very much.

I'm pleased

to make your acquanitance, Mr....

-Matsuda.

-Matsuda.

And you, sir.

I believe you are Mr. Todd Jackson.

The distinguished American diplomatist.

Not so distinguished.

The same Todd Jackson, I believe...

whom the English Foreign Minister

once referred to as...

-the last hope for the League of Nations.

-That was all a few years back.

A lot's happened since then.

I have no quarrel with your countrymen

anymore, Mr. Matsuda.

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Kazuo Ishiguro

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (born 8 November 1954) is a Nobel Prize-winning British novelist, screenwriter, and short-story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan; his family moved to the UK in 1960 when he was five. Ishiguro graduated from the University of Kent with a bachelor's degree in English and Philosophy in 1978 and gained his master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980. Ishiguro is considered one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors in the English-speaking world, having received four Man Booker Prize nominations, and having won the award in 1989, for his novel The Remains of the Day. Ishiguro's 2005 novel, Never Let Me Go, was named by Time as the best novel of the year, and was included in the magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. Growing up in a Japanese family in the UK was crucial to his writing, as it enabled him, he says, to see things from a different perspective to that of many of his British peers. His seventh novel, The Buried Giant, was published in 2015. In 2017, the Swedish Academy awarded Ishiguro the Nobel Prize in Literature, describing him in its citation as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world". Ishiguro was knighted in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours List. more…

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