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- 1995
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 48 m
- 1995
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 48 m
- 1995
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 48 m
- 1995
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 1 h 48 m
Shanghai Triad
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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80% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
77
80% Positive
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
20% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
A feast of a film that goes on feeding you long after you've left the theater. [25 Dec 1995, p.83]
And, of course, the film's biggest selling point is the performance of China's reigning superstar, Gong Li. Playing a sexy, shrewd but strangely suicidal character who is a far cry from the stubborn courtesans and determined peasant women characters that made her famous, she's as enigmatic and irresistible as ever, and demonstrates once again that she is the Garbo of China. [21 Dec 1995]
Imagine "The Godfather" through the eyes of a 13-year-old boy just in from the hinterlands of rural Jersey and his dad's pepper farm, and you have an idea of the originality, and the oddity, of the film. [16 Feb 1996]
This movie is not as intricately rewarding as Zhang's others. But because it is so Westernized, it could do even better at the box office. [21 Dec 1995, p.60]
Still, this is Zhang at his peak — twenty years before the horrors of “The Great Wall,” working with his muse (Gong Li will be seen next in Disney’s “Mulan”) and showing off a China that the Communist oligarchs would eventually come to emulate — of Western style luxury and opulence, and the casual, business-as-usual corruption that helps one acquire it.
His movie is only partly satisfying. [23 Feb 1996]
Even the excellent Gong has a tough time trying to twist her character into a tragic heroine, while the utter despair to which sympathetic characters are condemned suggests a significant point in Zhang's career, but does nothing to relieve the viewer's ennui.
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Production Company
Alpha Films,
La Sept Cinéma,
Ministère des Affaires étrangères et du Développement International,
Shanghai Film Studios,
Union Générale Cinématographique (UGC)
Release Date Dec 22, 1995
Duration 1 h 48 m
Rating R
Tagline In 1930's Shanghai violence was not the problem. It was the solution.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
National Board of Review, USA
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
