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Blossoms Shanghai (2023)
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Blossoms Shanghai (2023)
Original name: 繁花
Genre: Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Providing an image of the daily life of ordinary Shanghai people, the story is carried out over two periods: from the 1960s to the mid-1970s, the end of the Cultural Revolution; and from the 1980s to the start of the 21st century.
Style: captivating, thrilling, intense, reflective, noir, ambiguous ending, lyrical, period drama
Plot: wealth, economist, ambition, money, rich man, money problems, business, opportunist, entrepreneurship, capitalism, urban, betrayal, power, luxury, glamour, rise and fall, moral ambiguity, materialism, troubled past, class conflict, social change, love triangle, corruption, redemption, nostalgia ...
Time: 90s, 80s, 1990s
Place: china, shanghai

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