A person's life is destined to be shorter than that of a city. Having spent her whole life in Shanghai, Qiyao has her moments of prosperity and her fair share of loneliness. She finally fades and disappears but Shanghai remains a metropolitan city. Shanghai in the 1930s is glamorous and seductive.
Director: Stanley Kwan Kam-Pang
Screenplay: Xiangdong Gong, Elmond Yeung Chi-Sam
Producer: Jackie Chan, Willie Chan Chi-Keung, Chen Bao-Ping, Jun Fang, Hu Jianjun, Pengle Xu
Director of Photography: Huang Lian