Scriptwriter
WONG Jing, Manfred WONG, LUI Koon-nam
Cinematography
Andrew LAU (HKSC), Jason KWAN (HKSC)
Editor
Azrael CHUNG
Production Designer
YEE Chung-man
Art Director
Eric LAM
Costume Designer
Jessie TAI, Ivy CHAN
Visual Effects Supervisor
Victor WONG
Action Choreographer
LEE Tat-chiu

The Last Tycoon

Director
WONG Jing
Country
China, Hong Kong
Year
2012
Genre
Action, Adventure, Crime
Status
Completed
Duration
119 min
Language
Mandarin
Cast
CHOW Yun-fat, HUANG Xiaoming, Sammo HUNG, Francis NG
Synopsis

It was 1917, China. Cheng was an innocent young man who worked in a grocery store and had ambition, other than to be with his lovely neighbor, the Peking Opera student Qiu.

Cheng into prison in an accident, the duo broke out, and Cheng had no choice but to leave his life, and his dream girl behind.

Cheng found a job owned by the Hong, an influential man in Shanghai. As Cheng became one of most powerful mob bosses in Shanghai in the late 1930s, he soon won the affection of the famed songstress Bo. Although Bo loved him deeply, but Cheng found his heart belonged only to the vanished Qiu. 

When Cheng fame took its toll when he found himself stuck between the looming Japanese army and the scheming local secret service. To make things worse, he bumped into the love of his life Qiu, along with her writer husband. Would love re-kindle at the dusk of an era?
 

Awards & Festivals

•  Hong Kong Int'l. Film Festival 2013
•  Asian Film Awards 2013
•  Hong Kong Film Awards 2013 — Best Art Direction, Best Original Film Song
•  New York Asian Film Festival 2013
•  Asian Summer Film Festival 2013
•  Asian Film Festival of Dallas 2013
•  Fantasia Film Festival 2013
•  Filmasia 2013
•  Pyongyang Int'l. Film Festival 2016