James Ivory and Ismail Merchant's final film together finds them once again working alongside Japanese-born novelist/screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro (THE REMAINS OF THE DAY). This time, however, the collaboration bears far less satisfying fruit. Shanghai, 1936. Shattered by the loss of his wife, his two children and his eyesight, and thoroughly disillusioned by the failure of the League of Nations to keep China safe from external Japanese attack and an internal civil war, former U.S. diplomat Todd Jackson (Ralph Fiennes, with an American accent that sounds more like matinee idols of the period than real life) is now content to lend his good name to Western business inter...
Released:
2005
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
135 mins