Shanghai Rhapsody

Directed by Kinji Fukasaku

With Keiko Matsuzaka, Morio Kazama, Ryudo Uzaki, Etsuko Shihomi and Mitsuru Hirata

Set in the 1930s in the international city of Shanghai, the film follows the extravagant life and times of a group of jazz musicians, living from one advance paycheck to the next, as the country teeters over the brink into the Second Sino-Japanese War.