Shang Hai Wang (2008)
- Directed by
- Poon Man Kit
- Cast
- Yuan Li, Wallace Chung, Wei Zi, Chen Rui, Song Jia, Liu Yu Xin, Liu Yu Bin, Yuan Yuan
- Length
- 32 episodes
How it feels
In early 1900s Shanghai, a rural girl named Xiao Yuegui escapes famine and saves a gangster. She starts working in the gang's brothel and rises to claim the title of King of Shanghai.
slow-burnmelancholicgrittysuspensefulemotionalvisually lushclaustrophobicromantic
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