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To bring the film back after 40 years, Shanghai Blues underwent a meticulous digital restoration under the supervision of director Tsui Hark himself. Besides new grading, the restoration project ...

On a Saturday evening last May, China’s leading standup-comedy studio, Xiaoguo Culture Media, hosted a show in Beijing. Among the performers was Li Haoshi, a thirty-one-year-old nicknamed House, who ...

Exclusive: The hit 1984 film celebrates its 40th anniversary with the restoration. “Shanghai Blues” is set in 1937 after The Second Sino-Japanese War starts. The film centers on a soldier and a young ...

The film, which will be the third in the action comedy franchise, will also mark the return of the mismatched duo played by Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan to the big screen after a 13 year hiatus. While ...

Reporting from Shanghai — Zhou Libo is an impeccably dressed comedian. His typical uniform, a black sport coat accented with a red handkerchief tucked into the breast pocket, looks just right as the ...

Directed by Tom Dey, Shanghai Noon is set in the American West during the 19th century and sees two very different heroes, American outlaw Roy O’Bannon (Wilson) Chinese Imperial Guard Chon Wang (Chan) ...

SHANGHAI — Amid throbbing music and wild applause, Zhou Libo waddled onto the stage mimicking the gait and gestures of Mao Zedong, Communist China’s founding father. Spotlights played across big, gold ...

With over 400 films screened across the event, the 24th Shanghai International Film Festival was China's first full-scale, in-person cinema event to be successfully staged during the pandemic era. By ...

Matthew Schonfield is held aloft by members of the People's Republic of Comedy. The performers stage shows regularly in Shanghai. Provided to China Daily In the Shanghai entertainment scene, English ...

Some people say Shanghai is heaven. Others say it is hell. The city is filled with people from other parts of the country, and the world. They admire the city's prosperity, but face great pressure ...