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Mood:
- HumorousStylized
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Plot:
- ChaseCons and ScamsHeistChases and RacesCrimesDangerGangMaster Criminal more...
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Genres:
- ActionComedy
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Time/Period:
- 80s
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Place:
- AsiaHong KongTrain
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Audience:
- Boys' NightTeens
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Humor:
- Slapstick
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Style:
- Martial ArtsAll Star Cast
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Attitudes:
- Semi SeriousRealisticFast
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Shanghai Express, 1986
Cantonese
Hong Kong
Profile of Shanghai Express
The mood of Shanghai Express is humorous and stylized. The plot centers around a heist, chases, and cons and scams. It features slapstick humor. Shanghai Express is a comedy and action movie. Stylistically, it features an all-star cast and features martial arts. In approach, it is realistic. The pacing of Shanghai Express is fast. It takes place, at least partly, on a train. The setting is Hong Kong. Shanghai Express happens in the 1980s. It is especially suggested for teens and a boys' night.
Summary of Shanghai Express
Mix the dizzy confusion of IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD with director Sammo Hung's kung-fu stylings and a mythical Chinese West complete with cowboy hats, clapboard towns, and steam locomotives and the result is SHANGHAI EXPRESS. At the center of the plot is a train loaded with wealthy passengers and a trio of Japanese hoping to smuggle an important document out of the country. The train becomes the target of a motley assortment of thieves, bandits, and ex-cons, each with their own get-rich-quick scheme. As the cops and criminals stumble over one another, the film marches steadily to its conclusion--an all-out, everyone-for-themselves battle royale. The cast is a who's who of Hong Kong comedians and stars, most associated with Golden Harvest studio. The martial arts sequences are top-notch (the acrobatic Yuen Biao nonchalantly jumps off a two-story building as if it's an everyday thing), and the plot is an object lesson in how Hong Kong directors can borrow from Hollywood to create schizophrenic, enjoyable cinema.
Details
| Language: | Cantonese |
| Country: | Hong Kong |
| Release date: | 30 January 1986 |
| Runtime: | 94 min |
Cast and Crew
as Tsao Cheuk Kin
as Fong-Tin Ching
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