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Director:
Po-Chih Leong
Writers:
Michael Laughlin (writer)
Timothy R. Long (writer)
Release Date:
19 December 1991 (Hong Kong) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Billy Fong, a Chinese boy working the Shanghai docks, becomes friends with Dawson Cole, the spoiled son of an American shipping tycoon... more | full synopsis
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User Comments:
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Cast

  (Credited cast)
John Lone ... Billy Fong (as Zun Long)

Adrian Pasdar ... Dawson Cole
Fennie Yuen ... Mei
Eric Michael Zee ... Francis
Loletta Lee ... Mabel
Keone Young ... Ming
Wong Chung Yiu ... Young Billy
Billy Corben ... Young Dawson
Jack Hare ... Dawson's Father
Siu-Ming Lau ... Pao
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Kam-Kong Wong ... Tso

Kirk Wong ... Triad
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Once Upon a Time in Shanghai
Shanghai 1920 (International: English title)
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Runtime:
Canada:137 min
Country:
Hong Kong
Language:
English | Mandarin | Cantonese
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby

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Loved it..., 11 August 2007
9/10
Author: Azalais Malfoy (ataniell93) from United States

This is a great historical piece and if you like historical HK/Chinese movies you will probably like it, but if you are an Adrian Pasdar fan-girl or a slash/BL fan, you will DEFINITELY like it. I don't know if this movie was intended to be as homo-erotic as it is, but the friendship between the men in this movie is treated almost as a romance, whereas their relationships with the women in their lives seem either not to be very serious or to be a matter of status rather than an emotional tie.

Even if you can only find the Mandarin dubbed version, which is currently the most common one available, Pasdar does a great job with his part--he and John Lone are both invariably awesome. They're beautiful men, we get to see a lot of them, and their relationship, however you see it, is the most important thing in their lives.

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