Seems like the series is based on webnovel of the same name, with two story lines, one set in 1960s-70s, and another one with protagonist from the trailer set in 80s to 2000s. The novelist was...
Seems like the series is based on webnovel of the same name, with two story lines, one set in 1960s-70s, and another one with protagonist from the trailer set in 80s to 2000s. The novelist was born in 1952, and was sent "down to the countryside" for work for 8 years before coming back to Shanghai for health in 1977, and became a writer in 1985, writing this one in 2011.
Wong Ka Wai spoke Shanghainese as a kid and only learned Cantonese as a second dialect after immigrating to HK with this family. I would only want to watch this in Shanghainese with English/Chinese subs, I think (no thanks mandarin dub).
Unrelated. This trailer with English subs mentions an Orthodox Church building. Probably the St Nicholas, built in 1932, which was a warehouse, laundry wash house and restaurants after "closing" in 1949.
Seems like the series is based on webnovel of the same name, with two story lines, one set in 1960s-70s, and another one with protagonist from the trailer set in 80s to 2000s. The novelist was born in 1952, and was sent "down to the countryside" for work for 8 years before coming back to Shanghai for health in 1977, and became a writer in 1985, writing this one in 2011.
Wong Ka Wai spoke Shanghainese as a kid and only learned Cantonese as a second dialect after immigrating to HK with this family. I would only want to watch this in Shanghainese with English/Chinese subs, I think (no thanks mandarin dub).
Unrelated. This trailer with English subs mentions an Orthodox Church building. Probably the St Nicholas, built in 1932, which was a warehouse, laundry wash house and restaurants after "closing" in 1949.