Shanghai Triad

In 1930, Shanghai violence was not the problem. It was the solution.

A visually sumptuous coming-of-age story set within Shanghai's criminal underworld, where a young provincial boy witnesses the paranoid, violent world of organized crime through the eyes of a doomed mistress.

Shanghai, China, 1930. When young Shuisheng arrives from the countryside, his uncle Liushu puts him at the service of Bijou, the mistress of Laoda, supreme boss of the Tang Triad, constantly threatened by his enemies, both those he knows and those lurking in the shadows.