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“Hur Jin-Ho’s adaptation re-imagines Shanghai as an opulent

eastern mirror image of 18th century Paris or 19th century Vienna,

with its grand operas, bed-hopping aristocrats and lavish society balls.

The costumes are a blazingly colorful pageant of velvet and silk,

the opulent interiors cathedrals to Art Nouveau grandeur.

All gleaming chrome and polished mahogany, gold leaf and stained glass,

the film is an immersively sensual experience."

The Hollywood Reporter

Australian Premiere

International Chinese Film Festival Opening Night

15 September 2012

In Cinemas 4 October 2012

Running Time 110 minutes Language Chinese Mandarin with English Subtitles Rating M – Mature Themes and Violence Australian Distributor Greenlight Releasing Cinemas Sydney Chauvel Cinema

Melbourne Kino Cinemas Brisbane Palace Barracks

Adelaide Palace Nova Eastend

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Passion.Out of Control.

1930s Shanghai war looms over the glamorous and tumultuous

‘Paris of the East’

At a charity ball for refugees from the Japanese-occupied Northeast, the glamorous entrepreneur and libertine Mo Jieyu (Cecilia Cheung) strikes a deal with her ex-lover, the devastatingly handsome playboy Xie Yifan (Jang Dong-gun).

Mo’s most recent tycoon lover has dropped her for a young virginal schoolgirl. If Xie takes the girl’s virginity, he'll make a laughing stock out of the tycoon – and Miss Mo will give herself to Xie.

But Xie has his eyes on a different prize – the virtuous widow Du Fenyu (Zhang Ziyi).

As the stakes are raised higher and higher, the game becomes increasingly dangerous for everyone involved, particularly when Xie, despite himself, falls in love with Du. This epic story unfolds against the dramatic backdrop of the Japanese invasion of China. A powerful and mesmerising adaptation of the French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Jaclos.

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Cast

Du Fenyu Zhang Ziyi

Xie Yifan Jang Dong-gun

Mo Jieyu Cecilia Cheung

Hu Li Lisa Lu

Dai Wenzhou Shawn Dou

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Leading Cast

Zhang Ziyi is Du Fenyu

International superstar Ziyi Zhang first caught

international attention as one of the stars of

the multiple Oscar award-winning film

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. She

continued to work on an exceptionally

successful path of international hit films

including The Road Home, Hero, House of

Flying Daggers, 2046 and Memoirs of a

Geisha.

Ziyi has won eight Best Actress awards and in

addition to her role in Dangerous Liaisons

currently stars in the much anticipated The

Grandmasters directed by world renowned

auteur Wong Kar Wai.

Jang Dong-gun is Xie Yifan One of Asia’s biggest movie stars and star of

two unprecedented Korean box office smash

hits, Jang Dong-gun has been called “the

ultimate poster boy for Korean pop culture”

by CNN. His portrayal of a tough-talking

gangster in Friends earned him a Best

Supporting Actor Award and his leading

performance in the epic Taegukgi:

Brotherhood of War, the highest grossing

Korean film of all time, won him Best Actor at

the prestigious Blue Dragon Film Awards. He

has starred in numerous internationally

acclaimed films including Typhoon, The

Promise and The Warriors Way. In addition

to his role in Dangerous Liaisons, his latest

film is the Korean war epic, My Way.

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Cecilia Cheung is Mo Jieyu

Cecilia Cheung is one of the most popular rising

stars in China both as an actress and pop

singer.

With the success of King of Comedy and

Shaolin Soccer, starring alongside Stephen

Chow in both films, Cecilia is one of the top box

office earners in Hong Kong.

Her performance in Lost In Time earned her

the Best Actress Award at the Hong Kong Film

Awards.

Other Cast

Lisa Lu is Hu Li

Lisa Lu is an established Chinese actress and producer and a regular jury member for

the Golden Globe Awards. She has won three Golden Horse awards and the You

Bring Charm to the World. Lisa Lu began her performing career in Hollywood in the

1950s. Her credits include The Last Emperor, Lust Caution, The Joy Luck and the

action-packed disaster-thriller and international blockbuster 2012.

Shawn Dou is Dai Wenzhou

Shawn Dou received recognition with his role in the 2010 Zhang Yimou romance

Under the Hawthorn Tree. His other films that have been well-received include The

Allure of Tears, Racer Legend and The Seal of Love. He currently appears in Zhang

Yimou’s epic war film Flowers of War which has been nominated as Best Foreign

Film for the 2012 Golden Globe Awards.

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Director Hur Jin-ho

An award-winning Korean director renowned for

melodramas, Hur Jin-ho’s critically acclaimed debut

feature Christmas in August won five international

awards including Best Film and Best New Director at

the Blue Dragon Awards (Korean Oscars) and was

invited to be part of the Cannes Film Festival

Critique’s Section. His second film One Fine Spring

Day received the Artistic Contributions Award at the

Tokyo International Film Festival and the FIPRESCI

(International Federation of Film Critics) Award at the

Busan International Film Festival, and his feature April

Snow was an official selection at both the Toronto

International Film Festival and San Sebastian

International Film Festival. Hur Jin-Ho's 2007 hit feature Happiness won him a Best

Director at the Blue Dragon Awards.

Screenwriter Yan Geling

Yan Geling is one of the world’s most acclaimed bilingual (Chinese and English)

novelists and screenwriters. She has won multiple awards as a screenwriter and is an

Oscar jury member for the Best Screenplay category.

Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl, adapted by Yan from her own novel of the same name

won seven Golden Horse Awards and was named one of Time Magazine's Ten Best

Films of 1999. Some of her English novels include The Banquet Bug and The Lost

Daughter of Happiness.

Her credits also include Forever Enthralled directed by legendary auteur Chen Kaige,

and master director Zhang Yimou’s latest film The Flowers of War, nominated for

Best Foreign Language Film at the 2012 Golden Globe Awards.

Producer Chen Weiming

Chairman of Zonbo Media and a celebrated producer, Chen’s films have won two

Cannes Film Festival awards including the Jury Prize for Devils On the Doorstep and

the International Critics Award for Crying First. His hit feature Chengdu, I love You

was invited to be the closing film of the 2009 Venice Film Festival.