Title:Shanhai bansukingu Year:1984 Genre:Comedy / Drama / Musical Language:Japanese Country:Japan Director:Kinji Fukasaku Writer:Kinji Fukasaku / Ren Saitô / Yôzô Tanaka Actors:Keiko Matsuzaka / Morio Kazama / Etsuko Shihomi Plot:Set in the 1930s in Shanghai, the film follows the extravagant life and times of a group of jazz musicians, living from one advance paycheck to the next, as the country teeters over the brink into the Second Sino-Japanese War.