“Shanghai” Movie Stills

Directed by Mikael Hafstrom, “Shanghai” stars John Cusak and features Asian stars, Chow Yun-fat, Gong Li and Ken Watanabe tells the story of an American who returned to the 1940s Japanese-occupied Shanghai to investigate his friend’s death and during his investigation he discovers government secret.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan stars opposite John Cusack and Ken Watanabe in the movie.

Cusack will play a friend who sets out to investigate and finds himself embroiled in a cover-up.

Morgan will play Connor, an American murdered in Japanese-occupied Shanghai before the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The film is expected to be released sometime in 2009.

Director: Mikael Hafstrom
Writer: Hossein Amini
Starring: John Cusack, Li Gong, Ken Watanabe

‘Shanghai’ New Movie (2009)

An American man (John Cusack), who returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.

Ken Watanabe, Japanese Oscar-nominated actor, to English-speaking audiences is known for playing roles as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in ‘Letters from Iwo Jima’, Lord Katsumoto in ‘The Last Samurai’ (for which he was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actor category) and The Chairman in ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ with Zhang Ziyi and Gong Li.

Director: Mikael Hafstrom
Writer: Hossein Amini
Starring: John Cusack, Li Gong, Ken Watanabe