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- Movie: I Wish I Knew
- Chinese: 海上传奇 (Hai Shang Chuan Qi)
- Director: Jia Zhangke
- Writer: Jia Zhangke
- Producer: Tianyun Wang, Likwai Yu, Meg Jin, Yu Lin, Yong Xiong
- Cinematographer: Likwai Yu
- World Premiere: May 16, 2010 (Cannes Film Festival)
- Release Date: July 2, 2010
- Runtime: 138 min.
- Language: Mandarin
- Country: China
Plot
Shanghai, a fast-changing metropolis, a port city where people come and go.
Shanghai has hosted all kinds of people – revolutionaries, capitalists, politicians, soldiers, artists, and gangsters. Shanghai has also hosted revolutions, assassinations, love stories.
After the Chinese Communists’ victory in 1949, thousands of Shanghaiers left for Hong Kong and Taiwan. To leave meant being separated from home for thirty years; to stay meant suffering through the Cultural Revolution and China’s other political disasters.
Eighteen people from these three cities - Shanghai, Taipei and Hong Kong - recall their lives in Shanghai. Their personal experiences, like eighteen chapters of a novel, tell stories of Shanghai lives from the 1930s to 2010.
An eternally wandering soul returns to Shanghai and, walking along the banks of the Huangpu River, awakens to all the changes the city has undergone.
Cast
- Dan-qing Chen - Himself
- Han Han - Himself
- Rebecca Pan - Herself
- Tao Zhao - Herself
- Xudong Lin - interviewer
Trailer
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Film Festivals
- 2010 (63rd) Cannes Film Festival - May 12-May 23, 2010 - Un Certain Regard *World Premiere
- 2010 (35th) Toronto International Film Festival - September 9-19, 2010 - Masters *North American Premiere
- 2010 (29th) Vancouver International Film Festival - Sept. 30-Oct. 15, 2010 - Dragons and Tigers
- 2010 (54th) BFI London Film Festival - October 13-28, 2010 - World Cinema
- 2010 (30th) Hawaii International Film Festival - October 14-24, 2010 - Halekulani Golden Orchid Award: Documentary Feature Nominees *United States Premiere
- 2010 (7th) Hong Kong Asian Film Festival - October 22-November 8, 2010 - Cineaste Delights
- 2010 (34th) Sao Paulo International Film Festival - October 22-November 4, 2010
- 2010 (25th) Mar del Plata Film Festival - November 13-21, 2010 - Panorama
- 2010 (11th) TOKYO FILMeX - November 20- 28, 2010 - Special Screenings
- 2011 (35th) Hong Kong International Film Festival - March 20 - April 5, 2011 - Master Class
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