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Once Upon a Time in Shanghai (1996)

Once Upon a Time in Shanghai poster
Genre
drama television series
Country
Hong Kong
Length
1 season, 39 episodes
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This series follows three young people in 1930s Shanghai as they navigate love, ambition, and danger. Their lives become entangled with power struggles and shifting loyalties in the city's underworld.

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What happens

Once Upon a Time in Shanghai, also known as New Bund, is a Hong Kong television series and a remake of the 1980 television series The Bund. It was first aired on TVB in Hong Kong in 1996. The series starred Sunny Chan, Gordon Lam and Adia Chan as the original characters Hui Man-keung, Ting Lik and Fung Ching-ching respectively. It introduced some new changes to the original story, featuring new characters portrayed by Adam Cheng, Carol Cheng and others. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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