adventure comedy

Shanghai Surprise is a 1986 British adventure comedy film starring then-newlyweds

a 1986 British comedy movie directed by Jim Goddard in which Madonna starred alongside Madonna then-husband Sean Penn

Shanghai Surprise is a 1986 British comedy movie directed by Jim Goddard in which Madonna starred alongside Madonna then-husband Sean Penn.

musical

Though widely anticipated as a musical, Shanghai Surprise is actually a kind of miniaturization of Raiders of the Lost Ark/Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, with a feisty heroine (Madonna) in the vain [sic] of Rita Hayworth in The Lady From Shanghai, and a roguish adventure hero (Sean Penn) as well as a pop-sprinkled score (partly the work of George Harrison)...

Sean Penn , that is set in 1937 Shanghai during the Japanese occupation

‘Shanghai Surprise’ is a 1986 British adventure comedy film directed by Jim Goddard, starring Sean Penn and Madonna, that is set in 1937 Shanghai during the Japanese occupation.

a kind of miniaturization of Raiders of the Lost Ark/Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, with a feisty heroine in the vain [sic] of Rita Hayworth in The Lady From Shanghai, and a roguish adventure hero as well as a pop-sprinkled score (Madonna) (Sean Penn) (partly the work of George Harrison)

Though widely anticipated as a musical, Shanghai Surprise is actually a kind of miniaturization of Raiders of the Lost Ark/Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, with a feisty heroine (Madonna) in the vain [sic] of Rita Hayworth in The Lady From Shanghai, and a roguish adventure hero (Sean Penn) as well as a pop-sprinkled score (partly the work of George Harrison)...

sci-fi thriller

China is also being categorized as a sci-fi thriller.

Comedy, Drama, Shōnen and Sports

The story is usually classified as Comedy, Drama, Shōnen and Sports.

CONTEMPORARY ART

SHANGHAI SURPRISE - A GROUP SHOW ON CONTEMPORARY ART IN SHANGHAI, Shanghai,

fantasy-adventure-comedy

a 2015 Chinese fantasy-adventure-comedy film is based on the best-selling novel Dao Shi Xia Shan (A Monk Comes Down the Mountain) by Xu Haofeng.

for a Romancing the Stone-like balance of adventure, comedy, and romance

Shanghai Surprise aims for a Romancing the Stone-like balance of adventure, comedy, and romance, but succeeds only intermittently.

intrigue

To most foreigner, Shanghai conjures up stories of adventure and intrigue, of vice and leasure.

Science Fiction

This is China's first Science Fiction blockbuster movie and one of the declarations of a new era of big Chinese Science Fiction movies if big Chinese Science Fiction movies 's a hit.

surreal mystery

Its attempt to revisit the surreal mystery genre on a mainland China backdrop faces stiff competition from arguably among the best catalogs in that precise brand of storytelling, as the country witnessed a flood of excellent entries in this form circa the late 90's to early 2000's.

Chinese stories

The series will appeal to anyone with an interest in Chinese stories.

spy thriller

The movie was a huge hit at the box office, and generally regarded as the first large scale, Hollywood-level production Chinese spy thriller.

about fantasy about playing your preconceptions off against on-the-ground reality

Shanghai’s also about fantasy, about playing your preconceptions off against on-the-ground reality.

action thriller

(China, 2017, not rated, with subtitles), a bullet-riddle action thriller about a Chinese lawyer in Osaka on the run from cops and killers in a series of high-energy signature set pieces directed with self-parodying humor.

metatheatrical

Its premise is classic, metatheatrical Stan Lai—two variety show hosts in a nightclub introduce a well-known xiangsheng duo who do not show up, and are forced to impersonate them in a panoply of xiangsheng performances spanning different eras, from the 1960s all the way back to the close of China’s Qing Dynasty.

sci-fi

Such a Chinese blockbuster presents a new appearance of sci-fi and successfully moves audiences of different countries.

fiction

The target audience are the international students with various national backgrounds, and the students are supposed to have much interest in modern Chinese fiction and film.