![]() From the perspective of three Shanghai creatives - Architect, Wuyahuang Li, photographer, Shuwei Liu, and electronic music producer, Han Han (Gooooose) - we can understand the power the city has in shaping the consciousness of its inhabitants. Urban landscapes have a profound impact on those who dwell within its confines. ![]() Shanghai’s embrace of modern values, those associated with urban landscapes, is explored in Of a Sleepless Town a documentary short by filmmaker Jordan Hardy. ‘Fast paced and pluralistic’, the city is heralded as tolerant, moulded upon western conurbations such as New York. There is an acknowledgement of environmental issues, though it is deemed a work in progress compared to Beijing and other Chinese cities, air pollution is low. Compared to other Chinese cities, the influence of the outside world is evident on the streets of Shanghai. Globalisation transformed the fortunes of the city, establishing it as a metropolis to rival the economic centres of the west. A gentrifying force, a long history of agriculture has been lost in the pursuit of urban development.Įconomic policy that defined the previous decades, giving Shanghai status as a global power, offered freedom to many people. ![]() Farmers are often willing to give up their land for the right price. Comparatively to other parts of the world, this form of urbanism is desirable. In China, more than 200 million farmers and villagers have been reclassified as urban residents. Farms have been bought by the municipality, as the fields yield to expansive building developments. Urban growth has consumed the aforementioned rural land. The topography of Shanghai, a pioneering landscape in the context of China, has had a profound impact on the identity of its inhabitants. The alluvial plain upon which the city lies has changed immensely. Aerial images lay bare the human impact on the environment. The demands of population growth are evident. Efforts to curb population growth have been successful the city’s growth will not surpass 25 million. It is now home to over 6 million people and the skyscrapers that define the ‘showpiece’ of China. The sprawl of the city can be rivalled by few others, as the neighbouring towns and villages of the Yangtze floodplain have been consumed over the past half century. A free trade zone, the stock exchange of Shanghai became the international centre of business and fiscal opportunity that exists to this day. Politician Deng Xiaoping oversaw the implementation of significant economic reforms the rapid redevelopment of Shanghai was underway. In the late 20th century Shanghai began to awaken. This was ended after the Second Sino-Japanese War, when trading was limited to that with other socialist states. The city developed into a commercial and financial hub in the 1930s, wielding international influence. Under these circumstances, where the stakes are life or death, they find themselves inevitably drawn to each other.A fishing village in the 19th century, Shanghai became a popular trading location due to its favourable location on the banks of the Yellow Sea. He is also drawn to Natsumi, but she will lie, cheat or do whatever she needs to ensure her survival. Kenichi is drawn into a deadly game pitting the three groups against each other. Meanwhile, Fu-chun's girlfriend, Natsumi Sato (Mirai Yamamoto) turns up to sell something to Kenichi. ![]() When Ryu's former partner Fu-chun mysteriously reappears after having fled the country after killing the right-hand man of Yuan Cheng Kuei, don of the Shanghai mafia, Yuan wants to get even and attempts to do so by using Kenichi. He decides to operate alone, using his wits to keep himself safely balanced among the contending Taiwan, Shanghai, and Bejing criminal groups. Half Chinese and half Japanese, he was once a member of the Taiwan mafia, but he soon realized that his mixed blood left him no future. Kenichi (Takeshi Kaneshiro) deals in stolen goods in Kabukicho, a battleground for criminal groups from all over the continent. A place where people of different tongues and races meet, where they fight against each other to gain money, power and territory. ![]() If you create a user account, you can add your own review of this DVD Sleepless Town (Fuyajo) (1998) Sleepless Town (Fuyajo) (1998) ![]()
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