`Shanghai Triad,” the latest picture by China’s great filmmaker Zhang Yimou, is a portrait of a vanished time, bathed in a light that makes that world seem toylike and luminous, a dangerous jewel box ...

In the international film world, few invitations are as prestigious as being selected as the opening-night film of the New York Film Festival. (Last year it was "Pulp Fiction.") When Zhang Yimou ...

"This is Shanghai. There are hidden rules in everything you do and say." Film Movement has unveiled a new trailer for the restored re-release of Zhang Yimou's Shanghai Triad, celebrating 25 years ...

Shanghai, China, 1930. When young Shuisheng arrives from the countryside, his uncle Liushu puts him at the service of Bijou, the mistress of Laoda, supreme boss of the Tang Triad, constantly ...

Despite the gaudy title, Zhang Yimou’s “Shanghai Triad,” which opens today at the Charles, is a muted, even contemplative movie that is less about the gangster trade in the most dangerous city of the ...

Plot Synopsis: A country boy named Shui Sheng (Wang Xiaoxiao) is brought to 1930s Shanghai by his uncle, who wants him to become a member of the powerful gang ruled by manipulative Tang (Li Baotian).

SHANGHAI TRIAD. With Gong Li, Li Baotian, Wang Xiao Xiao. Rated R: adult situations. Running time: 109 minutes. At Lincoln Plaza and Angelika Film Center. 3 Stars EVEN THE SEEMINGLY most innocuous ...