''The Longest Night in Shanghai'' () is a 2007 film produced by Japan's Movie Eye Entertainment and directed by Chinese director

Zhang Yibai Zhang Xiaoling, better known by his stage name Zhang Yibai () (born 14 April 1963, in Chongqing, China) is a Chinese film director, screenwriter and producer. Directorial career Zhang began his career in television and music videos before dire ...

. It is a rare collaboration between

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

and

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. The film consists of a diverse cast. It stars Chinese actress

Zhao Wei Zhao Wei (; born 12 March 1976), also known as Vicky Zhao or Vicki Zhao, is a Chinese actress, businesswoman, film director, producer and pop singer. She is considered one of the most popular actresses in China and Chinese-speaking regions, an ...

and Japanese actor

Masahiro Motoki Masahiro Motoki (本木雅弘 ''Motoki Masahiro'', born December 21, 1965) is a Japanese actor. He portrayed protagonist Daigo Kobayashi in '' Departures'', which won the 81st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. His performance earned ...

. Other members of the cast include Taiwanese actor

Dylan Kuo Dylan Kuo (; born 8 June 1977) is a Taiwanese actor, singer and model. He rose to fame in 2004 after playing the lead role in the television series '' The Outsiders''. He is also known as Irons Kwok, his earlier western name, and Kwok Bun-chiu, ...

, Hong Kong actor Sam Lee, and Japanese actress

Naomi Nishida is an actress. She won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 2001 Yokohama Film Festival and at the 25th Hochi Film Award for her performance in ''Nabbie's Love''. Personal life She married a Japanese shoe designer in 2005, and gave birth to a ...

Cast

as Lin Xi *

as Naoki Mizushima *

as Miho Takahashi *Shinobu Otsuka as Rie Hara *

Naoto Takenaka is a Japanese actor, comedian, singer, and director from Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, affiliated with From First Production. He is married to idol singer and actress Midori Kinouchi. He is also known as the voice of Samuel L. Jac ...

as Taro Yamaoka *

Takashi Tsukamoto is a Japanese actor, singer, and model. He has released three single CDs: "Itsudemo Boku wa" (いつでも僕は, Anytime I am...), "Hitorigoto" (ヒ・ト・リ・ゴ・ト, Soliloquy), "New Morning". He also portrayed the character Shinji Mi ...

as Ryuichi Kwaguchi *Toshihiro Wada as Atsushi Kayama *

as Dongdong *Feng Li as Lin Xi's brother * Ben Niu as Old taxi-driver *

Zhang Xinyi Zhang Xinyi (, born 29 May 1981) is a Chinese actress and director. She ranked 95th on ''Forbes'' China Celebrity 100 list in 2013, 99th in 2014, and 80th in 2015. Biography Zhang was born in 1981 in Ziyang, Sichuan province. After graduating f ...

as Policewoman

Synopsis

Lin Xi's the struggling taxi driver who literally runs Naoki down in the street after he goes on a walkabout. Eager to placate the mysterious foreigner, Lin offers to chauffeur him around town, yet by the time she discovers Naoki has neither money nor any grasp of Chinese, he is captivated by watching her attempt to deal with her own personal problems. She should get him back home, but the phone calls keep coming in. He should get back to his hotel, but the strange bond he is forming with this woman (even though he barely understands a word she's saying) is the first thing in years to have him feeling alive.

Soundtracks

Firefly; Breathe (by Frally Hynes)

Reception

"Pic shuttlecocks between the corny and the involving, but Zhao's natural perf and

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

itself (always front and center, knitted into the action) keep things watchable." – ''

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Awards and nominations

References

External links

* * * 2007 films 2000s Cantonese-language films 2000s Japanese-language films 2000s Mandarin-language films Films set in Shanghai Films directed by Zhang Yibai 2007 romantic drama films Chinese romantic drama films 2000s Japanese films 2007 multilingual films Japanese multilingual films Chinese multilingual films {{2000s-romantic-drama-film-stub