The next arc of the story revisits the events of the shoot out and we learn that Watabe was not killed. Lu orders Zhang's assassination but in the process sacrifices Xiao Wu ( Gillian Chung) his mistress. Zhang who had betrayed Lu previously has been tracked down. The next arc occurs 1941 in Hong Kong just prior to the Pacific War. She tries to reject the offer but is devastated when she learns her husband has accepted the offer already. Wu is offered a high paying position for her husband outside of Shanghai with the implicit understanding that Wu would become Dai's mistress. Wu's husband is arrested by local police and she enlists the help of Mr. Wu's husband is also an actor but is not particular successful or good. The third arc in the story involves Wu ( Yuan Quan) a famous actress. Watabe was assigned to take her to a train station in Suzhou. Eventually they decide to move Xiao Liu out of Shanghai to northern China to save face for Dai.
Lu is called upon to take care of the situation and cannot bring himself to kill Xiao Liu. Xiao Liu is a bored film actress who continues to have affairs much to the embarrassment of Mr. The second arc begins three years earlier and introduces Xiao Liu ( Zhang Ziyi), who is married to Dai. Lu's sister is also killed and Lu takes charge of the two children and leaves Shanghai. This results in a shootout in Watabe's restaurant with Watabe saving Lu's life by shooting one of the Japanese leaders, and in the process getting shot in the chest himself. Lu refuses but Zhang betrays him and sides with the Japanese, killing Lu's gang and family in the process. There is tension between Japanese army as they wish for Dai and another local industrialist Zhang to support a Japanese bank being opened in Shanghai. His brother-in-law is Watabe who has two children and runs a local Japanese restaurant. Lu is introduced as an influential crime boss who works for Mr. The initial arc starts in Shanghai in 1937 in the eve of the Japanese invasion of Shanghai. The central characters are a Chinese crime figure, Lu ( Ge You) and his Japanese brother-in-law, Watabe ( Tadanobu Asano). The story arcs are told in a non-linear fashion and many events are re-told revealing the truth of what actually occurred.
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The movie depicts events commencing prior to the Japanese occupation of Shanghai between 1934 and the end of the war in 1945.
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