So Close to Paradise Movie Review 1998

Buddies Dong Zi and Gao Ping are farm workers who migrate to Shanghai for better lives. Dong gets a menial job on the docks while Gao turns to petty crime to survive. When a gang boss cheats Gao, he gets revenge by kidnapping the man's mistress, Vietnamese nighclub singer Ruan Hong. After some violence, Gao and Ruan fall in what passes for love but this story is not about to have a happy ending. A Chinese version of B-movie, Hollywood noir. Mandarin with subtitles.

Distribution

First Run Features, The Film Center Building, 630 Ninth Ave., Ste. 1213, New York, NY 10036, Phone: (212)243-0600, Toll-free: 800-229-8575, Fax: (212)989-7649, Email: info@firstrunfeatures.com, URL: http://www.firstrunfeatures.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 90 minutes.
Originally from Chinese.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Contemporary Noir, Kidnapped!, Nightclubs

Screenplay

Xiaoshuai Wang, Pang Ming

Cast

Guo Tao, Tong Wang, Yu Shi, Tao Wu

Cinematography

Tao Yang

Director

Xiaoshuai Wang

Music

Lin Liu