Lord of Shanghai (2017)
ジャンル : 犯罪, ドラマ
上映時間 : 1時間 51分
演出 : Sherwood Hu
シノプシス
A lowly brothel maid captures the attention of Shanghai triad leaders, pulling her into a brutal war where she learns to rise above the odds in order to survive.
A young pair from Stuttgart fly to Shanghai to hop aboard the textile business of his father while she prepares for the birth of their son. A story about the ever more common movement of Germans into the East for professional gain.
主人公は、貧しさゆえに置屋に売られたひとりの少女。辛く厳しい日々の中で、全ての希望を見失ったとき、立派な身なりをした“会長"と呼ばれる、ひとりの紳士との運命の出会いが訪れる。「もう一度、あの人に会いたい…」儚い願いを胸に、少女は美しく変貌を遂げ、ミステリアスな輝きを放つ瞳と天性の聡明さによって、やがて花街一の芸者“さゆり"となる。そして、ついに芸者として会長と再会することになるが、その先には過酷な運命と激動の時代が待ちうけていた…。
Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead, even though Smith witnessed his execution. A killer spray made from Tibetan berries seems to be involved and clues keep leading back to the Thames.
国境の町に拡がる陰謀を描いたW・マスターソンのミステリ小説を、O・ウェルズが脚色・監督したフィルム・ノワールの傑作。
メキシコ国境の小さな町で起こった車の爆殺事件。偶然にも現場を目撃したメキシコ政府の特別犯罪調査官ヴァルガスは事件の捜査に乗り出すが、アメリカ側の担当者であるクインラン警部はヴァルガスの介入を露骨に拒否。だが上司の命令で、クインランはやむなくヴァルガスと共同捜査を開始する……。
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
In three separate segments, set respectively in 1966, 1911, and 2005, three love stories unfold between three sets of characters, under three different periods of Taiwanese history and governance.
After getting out of prison, small-time crook Mardar stumbles upon a woman who looks exactly like his long-lost lover.
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
Ko Chun, an extremely talented and well known gambler. On the eve of a big confrontation with a famous Singaporean gambler, Ko walks into a trap set by Knife, an avid but a so-so gambler, meant for an Indian servant. Struck on the head, Ko suffers from amnesia and regresses to a child-like state. Knife takes care of Ko and begins to exploit Ko's gambling talents.
Two souls arrive in a small town, one on vacation, the other to meet a lover. They spend the most magical dream-like days of their lives in that town... with each other.
This action story takes place in Shanghai, China where Gilda, a stunning blonde 'femme Nikita' is commissioned to take out an important Lebanese official. As a professional killer, her real identity is kept secret. Her boss has arranged a new name and profession for her in Shanghai as the new manager of an information technology company. She takes up residence in a beautiful condo where she gets to know her neighbor, Lin, a beautiful Chinese girl who turns out to be a high-class call girl. Their friendship develops as they help one another along the way as they are betrayed by their hearts for men who turn out to be scoundrels. The drama propels into a highly emotional and sensitive story about two women who are independent and ferocious in guarding affairs of their heart, even though their individual jobs lead many to believe that they are only cold-blooded and materialistic.
A smooth-talking ad executive attributes his remarkable success with women to his ability to manipulate their emotions from the moment he first meets them. When his teenage nephew drops in for a visit, he soon learns that his approach isn't as foolproof as he thought when he attempts to teach the boy how to pick up women.
Two mall employees driving to work hit a man who drank a soda laced with a chemical that turns people into cannibals.
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris.
Harvard graduate James Averill is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area's poverty-stricken immigrants and its wealthy cattle farmers. The politically connected ranch owners fight the immigrants with the help of Nathan Champion, a mercenary competing with Averill for the love of local madam Ella Watson. As the struggle escalates, Averill and Champion begin to question their decisions.
Huo Yuan Jia became the most famous martial arts fighter in all of China at the turn of the 20th Century. Huo faced personal tragedy but ultimately fought his way out of darkness, defining the true spirit of martial arts and also inspiring his nation. The son of a great fighter who didn't wish for his child to follow in his footsteps, Huo resolves to teach himself how to fight - and win.
A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.