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IN SHANGHAIIn Shanghai Lou Ye, 2001short FilmIn Shanghai or the eyes of a Chinese director of his city, Shanghai, Communist economic center , but also megalopolis with many faces ...Lou Ye is a great filmmaker. After having the success that we know for the sublime Suzhou River, the young director of the sixth generation is coupled to the design of this short film about Shanghai, the city of his heart , beautiful and multicultural . Camera in hand ( for lovers is a Sony DSR- PD150 DVCam ... ) for subjective , Lou Ye rhyme begins this urban plan by a girl asleep on a bed. Slowly the camera moves out of the suburb where this unknown young woman is given the arms of Morpheus , better visit this city that is Shanghai. The narrator who is also the hero says in voice-over that he loves this megalopolis . It focuses on the residents of these neighborhoods without cloth and without resources where most of the native population of Shanghai Lodge . Indeed the streets Zongshan Donglu which contains the Bund, Pudong, the famous Oriental Pearl is not the stock market and everyone. We must go farther Jingan District to discover the social wealth of this city . Why attach immense cold and nervous architectures while the Shanghai Blood flows through the veins of its rural ? It's a little message Lou Ye through this short film ."You can guess who they are, but we can never really know "Lou Ye eradicates a rare cinematic power of this often precarious and old people waiting on the bus every morning to go to work and make the Chinese economy humming .The old streets of the city like the nearby temple Cheung Hong Bund to the bank of the Huangpu , the filmmaker does not recognize the city. As if all these steel towers of the 21st century had absorbed the social essence of the " Paris of the East" .Lou Ye then takes us on a visit to the arcades , discos, clubs, dances, flashy locations and disconnected from the reality of ordinary people in the middle of poverty which is near workers and street vendors where people drown their defecation in water by putting the edge of an old tub ... This is a new look for the Western .Finally, after making stops in a dangerous Shanghai streets by night , the hero wakes up in the morning director in a corner near buildings unsafe and fixed on the face of a shy child , concluding : "The only thing that matters is Shanghai . "By these words Mr. Lou Ye, I bear you my esteem .

刘德华、林威饰演的两兄弟在六二年的大逃亡潮时失散，威遭遣返大陆劳改，华获蛋家妹温碧霞救起，到港并结为夫妇。华从苦力做起，后来成为台湾养鱼业及船务的成功商人，而威则被犯罪集团雇用来港参加打劫，又被指使往台湾掳劫华之女儿，更错手杀死华女。华返港报仇，与威力拼，后来认出彼此是失散多年的兄弟……

越战时期，奔赴战场的美国大兵途径香港时，会在湾仔停留，这让湾仔自1950年代末的数年间，充斥靠他们过日子的纹身师傅、小要饭、拿着照片找爸爸的“杂种”、阿飞及实为妓女的Bar女郎，形成特有的风情。Bar坊妈咪回乡找人做Bar女，家境贫寒、相貌不俗、个性倔强的赖水尾（夏文汐）和几个同乡姐妹从大澳渔村来到湾仔，开始卖肉生涯。起初，渔家女受到其他Bar女的嘲笑，但经过经验丰富的小伶玉（于倩）的一番调教，她们很快不输她人，易名水美丽的赖水尾更是出尽风头。风度翩翩却又年少轻狂的“杂种”Jimmy（黄秋生）幼年丧母，小伶玉将他养大后视作私有财产，不过Jimmy对她并无爱情，他心里只有不知身在何方的父亲。为Jimmy着迷的不止小伶玉一人，诸多Bar女只怪小伶玉将他看得太紧，他又不给她们揩油的机会。水美丽亦钟情于他。某次Jimmy被阿飞堵截，水美丽机智将他相救，又相告有心听来的他父亲的名字，两人瞒着小伶玉开始恋爱。后来水美丽为了他与小伶玉撕破脸，主动离开Bar坊，而找到父亲的他早忘记当初誓言，拍拍屁股去了美国。一家不要家家不要的行规令水美丽成为街头妓女，但小伶玉这个机会亦不给她，无奈之下她去了麻油地，几年挣扎，境况越来越糟。亏得性情相投的黑帮大姐大王英（叶德娴）相助，水美丽东山再起，短短几年更将生意做到了尖沙咀。随着越战的结束，湾仔渐成荒凉地，小伶玉亦变作风中残烛。水美丽念旧恩将她探望时，Jimmy恰好回港。听闻他是回港找妻，旁人都以为水美丽会与他再续前缘，对他早已死心的水美丽心底亦再泛涟漪，不料他早变作世俗之人，更将两人的感情忘得一干二净。其后水美丽有心将精力全部放在生意上，无奈时代风云不是她及待她若同性爱侣的王英所能把握。

炎热夏天，身心疲惫的青年刑警村上（三船敏郎 饰）结束了射击练习后，登上拥挤难闻的公车回家，途中突然发现配枪被人盗走。他奋力追赶，却最终跟丢了目标。村上垂头丧气找到佐藤课长（志村乔 饰），请求解除他的职务，善良的课长则指点他拜托扒手课的资深刑警市川（河村黎吉 饰）寻求帮助。经市川提醒，村上想起公车上身边站着的一个女人，正是女惯犯阿银（岸辉子 饰）。耐不住村上的死缠烂打，阿银透露了手枪贩子的信息。在此之后，村上深入这座城市最黑暗的角落，寻找关于手枪的蛛丝马迹。与此同时，有人用他的手枪犯案，形势日渐紧迫。二战后日本都市的芸芸众生相，通过村上野狗一般锐利的双目交替呈现……