Cho Kuen Wong

長恨歌

Stanley Kwan, Cho Kuen Wong

Sammi Cheng, Tony Leung Ka-Fai

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.