Everlasting Regret

Everlasting Regret

2005 · 106 min · ★ 5.9 · Drama, Romance

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.

Directed by Stanley Kwan Kam-Pang · Written by Gong Xiangdong

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