SYNOPSIS
Lost Shanghai is a musical love story about ambition, love, espionage, betrayal and redemption set in the tumultuous revolutionary days of 1940s Shanghai.
Pan, a young man from a small southern village arrives in Shanghai to seek his fortune and becomes infatuated with Moon, a singer at a teahouse, who Pan believes is the reincarnation of a ghostly servant girl he encountered as a youth. He is haunted by a crucial moment when he chose to pursue his work rather than help the girl in her moment of need. Moon, however, is unaware of Pan’s infatuation with her. She has more pressing concerns, having been forced into service as a sort of Matta Hari by the secret police to lure and entrap suspected enemies.
One night, however, fortune miraculously smiles on Pan and he finds himself in a position to be of help to Moon and to offer her a night’s shelter. And for a brief moment the two are lovers. But because her life is not her own, there can be no romance between them and so she remains an elusive dream that Pan pursues but can never obtain — until the very end as Shanghai succumbs to a new era. And it is then that these two unlikely lovers share a strange fate that transcends revolutions and lifetimes.
Lost Shanghai is a musical love story about ambition, love, espionage, betrayal and redemption set in the tumultuous revolutionary days of 1940s Shanghai.
Pan, a young man from a small southern village arrives in Shanghai to seek his fortune and becomes infatuated with Moon, a singer at a teahouse, who Pan believes is the reincarnation of a ghostly servant girl he encountered as a youth. He is haunted by a crucial moment when he chose to pursue his work rather than help the girl in her moment of need. Moon, however, is unaware of Pan’s infatuation with her. She has more pressing concerns, having been forced into service as a sort of Matta Hari by the secret police to lure and entrap suspected enemies.
One night, however, fortune miraculously smiles on Pan and he finds himself in a position to be of help to Moon and to offer her a night’s shelter. And for a brief moment the two are lovers. But because her life is not her own, there can be no romance between them and so she remains an elusive dream that Pan pursues but can never obtain — until the very end as Shanghai succumbs to a new era. And it is then that these two unlikely lovers share a strange fate that transcends revolutions and lifetimes.