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Shanghai Fever

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WatchMind AI scores Shanghai Fever as cinema with balanced tone tone and fast-paced pacing (75% on TMDb). Shanghai Fever is a film worth prioritising when you want something with strong audience scores — our AI analysis flags it as a strong match for its genre and tone profile.

Released

1994-05-12

Rating

75%

Type

Movie

Runtime

1h 31m

AI Analysis

Shanghai Fever (1994) — AI movie analysis

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WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of Shanghai Fever (1994) — a movie tagged as cinema with balanced tone moods and fast-paced pacing.

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Story & themes: Pan Hung is Lily, a humble bus conductor hired by Hong Kong commodities trader Sean Lau to be his connection to the Shanghai stock market. Lily finds the job surprisingly easy, and the duo begins to make big money. But at what price? With wealth and prosperity a driving daily goal for Lily, will her own family come … Our models also surface themes such as ai and family from synopsis and genre signals.

Watch context: Best suited for general audiences. Expect fast-paced storytelling (~91 min).

Community signal: TMDb members rate Shanghai Fever 75% (6 votes) — strong audience scores for this movie.

AI verdict

Shanghai Fever is a film worth prioritising when you want something with strong audience scores — our AI analysis flags it as a strong match for its genre and tone profile.

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Synopsis

Pan Hung is Lily, a humble bus conductor hired by Hong Kong commodities trader Sean Lau to be his connection to the Shanghai stock market. Lily finds the job surprisingly easy, and the duo begins to make big money. But at what price? With wealth and prosperity a driving daily goal for Lily, will her own family come to bear the cost? Director Lee Lok See uses his Shanghai focus to great effect, finding many avenues and opportunities for his satirical observations and cultural clashes. With capitalism and communism going head on in the rapidly growing city of Shanghai, which value system will ultimately live in each person's heart?

Quick facts

Type: Movie
Status: Released
Release date: 1994-05-12
Runtime: 1h 31m
TMDB rating: 7.5
TMDB ID: 170787

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The official runtime for Shanghai Fever is approximately 91 minutes.

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