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| Release Date: |
December 21, 2005 (LA/NY) |
| On DVD: |
May 16, 2006 |
| Genre: |
Drama |
| Running Time: |
138 minutes |
| MPAA Rating: |
Rated PG-13 for some violent images and thematic elements. |
| Director: |
James Ivory |
| Writer: |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Cast: |
Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave, John Wood, Madeleine Potter, Hiroyuki Sanada |
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 Read more
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