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a tangled web of love and deceit.
This film has a slow start, but it sets the stage for the later development of the central characters. Gong Li and Leslie Cheung, two extraordinary actors, are incredibly beautiful to look at, and the chemistry between them is palpable. The relationships in this movie are so complicated...there are multiple triangles...that one viewing is simply not enough to do it justice. This one has to be seen a second time, and it will be well worth it.

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Moon over Shanghai
Temptress moon takes us to the pre 2nd world war China where emperor still ruled and powerful families lived in big lands with many servants and employees. Story starts with a young member of the family who flees from home after her sister and her husbands lustful and opium based life that suffocates him. He poisons his sisters husband and flees to Shanghai. He becomes a gigolo who ambushes married rich ladies and blackmails them for a Chinese mafioso. Years later he returns home in order to seduce the young master of the house who was also a childhood friend a sister to him. The lead acting is provided by Gong Li and Leslie Cheung ,meeting one more time after the "farewell my concubine" and executed brilliantly. Scenes are well shot and especially nite time shots of the films opening scenes as well as street shots and hotel ballroom shots of Shanghai is impressive. Gong Li and her faultless innocence and Cheung's troubled sophistication and regret draws the main lines of the story and it journeys throughout the film, leaving us in curiousity of "what will happen in the next scene ?" The real surprise of the film is the unexpected ending that really adds to the overall success of the film. An alternative story of love and hate which will get your emotions going.

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Farfetched plot but great acting, scenery and location
This 1996 Chinese film is set in the sophisticated Shanghai of 1920 as well as the surrounding area. It is a fascinating drama including opium smoking, love, lust and revenge. There's a beautiful young woman, who has been raised to prepare opium for her father and brother. As her brother is paralyzed, she inherits the family home but despite her wealth, she is unhappy. A distant male cousin serves her and falls in love with her. But she falls in love with her sister-in-law's younger brother who has fled the household years ago because of a shameful secret and now makes his living romancing and blackmailing wealthy women in Shanghai. The plot thickens.

Sound complicated? Well, it is. But that didn't stop me from watching the story unfold in spite of the farfetched plot. The scenery was beautiful. The acting was excellent. And the location was exotic. And so I relaxed and just enjoyed the film. Recommended.