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Release date United States: Wednesday, December 21, 2005, DVD release: TBA

Director: James Ivory

Cast:

Ralph Fiennes as Todd Jackson
Natasha Richardson as Sofia Belinsky
Hiroyuki Sanada as Matsuda
Vanessa Redgrave as Sarah, aunt
Lynn Redgrave as Olga, mother-in-law
John Wood
Madeleine Potter
Allan Corduner as Samuel
Madeleine Cooper as Katya Belinsky
Kyle Rothstein as Dancing Harlequin

About:

Set in Shanghai in the late 1930s, this is the story of the relationship between a disillusioned former US diplomat and a refugee White Russian countess reduced to a sordid life in the city's bars.
Todd Jackson (mid-40s), once an American diplomat filled with idealism, has lost his sight several years earlier, and is now languishing in Shanghai's grand hotels and elite gentlemen's clubs, a burnt-out case, He has become bitterly disillusioned by realpolitik and the seemingly unavoidable nature of war and conflict. He is, moreover, deeply bereaved by the deaths of his wife and children - victims of violent events in the political turmoil of 1930s China that also robbed him of his sight.

Genres:
Drama

Producers: Andreas Grosch Ismail Merchant

Writers: Kazuo Ishiguro

Studio: Sony Pictures Classics