Shanghai Triad

Shanghai Triad simplified Chinese traditional Chinese pinyin yo a yo, yo do wip qio is a 1995 Chinese film, directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Gong Li. The film is set in the criminal underworld of 1930s Shanghai, Republic of China and spans seven days. Shanghai Triads Chinese title reads Row, row, row to Grandma Bridge, refers to a well known traditional Chinese lullaby.

Tang Shuisheng Wang Xiaoxiao has arrived in Shanghai to work for a Triad Boss played by Li Baotian, also named Tang. He is taken to a warehouse where two rival groups of Triads carry out an opium deal that goes wrong, leaving one of the rival members dead. Shuisheng is then taken by his uncle to Tangs palatial home, where he is assigned to serve Xiao Jinbao Gong Li, a cabaret singer and mistress of the Boss. It is soon learned that Jinbao is also carrying on an affair with the Bosss number two man, Song Sun Chun.On the third night, Shuisheng witnesses a bloody gang fight between the Boss and a rival, Fat Yu, in which his uncle is killed. The Boss and a small entourage retreat to an island. There, Jinbao befriends Cuihua Jiang Baoying, a peasant woman with a young daughter, Ajiao. When Jinbao unwittingly meddles in Cuihuas business, it results in the Bosss men killing Cuihuas lover. Furious, Jinbao confronts the Boss and tells Shuisheng to leave Shanghai. ........

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