Shanghai Kiss (2007)

Directed by

David Ren

Genre

drama film, comedy film, teen film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 46m

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 76 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Chinese American actor in Los Angeles gets entangled with a high school girl and then inherits a house in Shanghai. He goes there reluctantly, but meeting a local woman makes him reconsider his life choices.

lightheartedromanticwhimsicalslightly awkwardreflectivegentlewarm

What happens

Shanghai Kiss is a 2007 direct-to-DVD film directed by Kern Konwiser and David Ren. It was released on DVD on October 9, 2007. Hayden Panettiere won the Feature Film Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival for her role as Adelaide. Liam Liu (Ken Leung), a Chinese American actor dwelling in Los Angeles, unwittingly gets involved with a high school girl. He suddenly has to go to China after learning from his father that he has inherited his grandmother's home in Shanghai. He is not very appreciative of his Chinese roots and at first only wants to sell the house and get back to the U.S. as fast as possible. He gets a taste of Chinese customs after meeting a girl there and ends up having some big decisions to make. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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