Welcome to Shanghai Destination
Director：Andrew Cheng
Screenwriter：
Cast：Yang Zhiying, CuiZi’en, Zhou Yi
Producer：
Cinematographer：
Running Time：86mins
Region：China
Year：2003
Language：Chinese
Production Company：
SYNOPSIS
A story about: A long-hair “call-boy” from Shanghai, an once member of the “Young Intellectuals” and now a mid-aged proﾭcuress, a bald metamorphic customer, a Laid-off woman worker who sets up a clinic for venereal diseases and works as part-time actress, a disguised murderer, a Shanghai born prostitute, the gay husband of that Laid-off worker, a passed-by Yunﾭnan girl, the quiet son of the woman workﾭer, a beautiful girl from some other place and her boyfriend.
Being considered as “the most expectﾭable new come director in China” by News Week (U.S.), LA Times (U.S.), BBC, Channel 4 (U.K.) and Der Spiegel (Germany); South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) said that “he’s playing a leading role in the new cinema in china”; Christoph Terhechte, President of Youth Forum of Berlin Film Festival, praised him as “ achieving as one of the most successful new director in the world by only 2 films, and the most expectﾭable director in china.”
Recently, films without a fixed protagonist become more and more popular, such as ‘Babel’and’Crash’. The success of ‘Babel’ should thanks to Brad Pitt, and ‘Crash’ benefited by the Hollywood movie proﾭduction system. ‘Welcome to destination Shanghai’ don’t have a fixed protagonist, neither, and it was shot much earlier. But without stars like Brad Pitt and without the ﾭprise this year. Hong Kong media call it “III class movie win the awards.” 11
Director Biography
<p>In 1996, he obtained a Master's degree in Film Production from the University of Sydney, Australia. He is one of the earliest people to introduce DV to China. In 1998, he founded a film and television production company in Shanghai, personally directing MVs and TV commercials. He has been praised by Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, the British magazine Screen International, BBC, Channel 4, and Germany's Der Spiegel as "China's most promising emerging director." He has been hailed by the South China Morning Post as "a leading figure in China's new cinema." Christoph, the chairman of the Berlin Film Festival's Young Forum, praised him: "With just two works, he has already become a major new voice in the international film scene and one of the most promising Chinese filmmakers."</p>
Director's Statement
<p>Recently, films without a fixed protagonist become more and more popular, such as ‘Babel’and’Crash’. The success of ‘Babel’ should thanks to Brad Pitt, and ‘Crash’ benefited by the Hollywood movie proﾭduction system. ‘Welcome to destination Shanghai’ don’t have a fixed protagonist, neither, and it was shot much earlier. But without stars like Brad Pitt and without the ﾭprise this year. Hong Kong media call it “III class movie win the awards.” 11</p>
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