From director Mikael Hafstrom (1408) comes the epic espionage thriller Shanghai staring John Cusack (1408) and international superstars Gong Li (Miami Vice Memoirs of a Geisha) and Ken Watanabe (Letters from Iwo Jima The Last Samurai.) Nothing is what it seems in this Casablanca-style international thriller set in the ancient Chinese city a week before the attack on Pearl Harbor. U.S. secret agent Paul Soames (Cusack) has just arrived to investigate the murder of his best friend only to become quickly immersed in a web of conspiracy and lies that beset the city. Shadowed by a Japanese intelligence officer Tanaka (Watanabe) Soames’ investigation quickly centers on a charismatic local gangster Anthony Lanting – and Lanting’s beautiful wife Anna (Li). Before long Soames and Anna are involved in an affair that will put everything they have at stake. As national loyalties are traded fastand- loose for those of the heart Soames and Annamust race to solve the mystery and make it out of occupied China before the city’s collapse.
