Shanghai Bund

Shanghai Bund 2007

Details

• Title: 新上海滩 / Xin Shang Hai Tan
• Also known as: Shanghai Beach / The New Shanghai Bund
• Genre: Action, romance
• Episodes: 42
• Broadcoast network: JSTV
• Broadcoast period: 2007-Jan-20
• Opening theme song: Shang Hai Tan (上海灘) by Frances Yip
• Ending theme song: Jiu Suan Mei You Ming Tian (就算没有明天) by Huang Xiao Ming and Sun Li
• Related TV show: The Bund (1980)

Synopsis

It's the year 1930. Xu Wenqiang was expelled from his university when he was captured by the police during a protest. That was the last time he saw his university love, Xiao Yun. After he got out of prison, he went to Shanghai. He quickly got in touch with Xiao Yun again. But soon he found out that she had changed. She was now the woman of Shanghai's mob boss, Mr. Feng Jing Yao, the most powerful man in Shanghai. After Wenqiang got off the train in Shanghai, he unexpectedly saved a pretty lady, Feng Chengcheng. At that time, he didn't know that he would later fall in love with her. Chengcheng was the daughter of Mr.Feng. Mr. Feng helped Wenqiang and his new and best friend Ding Li become powerful men in Shanghai Bund. Wenqiang was always reluctant to follow Mr. Feng's orders, for he was extremely principled and righteous. Finally, when Wenqiang found out that Mr.Feng was helping the Japanese smuggle drugs into china, he turned against Mr. Feng. As a result, the Japanese wanted to kill Wenqiang because he'd become a danger to them. They waited for him at Xiao Yun's house. He didn't die that day, but lost Xiao Yun when she shielded him from a bullet. He killed the leader who killed Xiao Yun and then destroyed all the drugs. Later Mr. Feng and the Japanese sent more assasins to kill Wenqiang and it was also the time that Wenqiang was supposed to marry Chengcheng. He let Chengcheng choose between him and her father and when he heard that Chengcheng had chosen her father for his own protection, he fled to Hong Kong and started a new life there. He married a woman and almost had a child. However Mr. Feng found out about Wenqiang and his marriage he sent assasins to kill Wenqiang and his family. His family died and Wenqiang returned to Shanghai to seek revenge......

Cast

• Huang Xiao Ming as 许文强 Xu Wen Qiang
• Sun Li as 冯程程 Feng Cheng Cheng
• Li Xue Jian (李雪健) as 冯敬尧
• Huang Hai Bo (黄海波) as 丁力
• Chen Shu as 方艳芸
• Sha Yi as Chen Han Lin

Production credits

• Director: Gao Xi Xi

Notes

• Setting: Shanghai, China
• This drama is a remake of the original serial The Bund (1980), starring Chow Yun Fat as Hui Man Keung (Xu Wen Qiang), Angie Chiu as Fung Ching Ching (Feng Cheng Cheng) and Ray Lui as Ting Lik (Ding Li).

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