Though he recently boarded Cirque du Freak, Ken Watanabe has found some time to travel to Shanghai.
Ken Watanabe for Shanghai
Watanabe will join John Cusack and Gong Li in the period drama Shanghai, which is set to begin shooting in China next month.
To be directed by Mikael Hafstrom -- who recently gave direction to Cusack in 1408 -- Shangai is set four months prior to Dec. 7, 1941, follows an American who returns to a corrupt, Japan-occupied Shanghai to discover his friend has been killed. While trying to solve the murder, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.
Hossein Amini wrote the script.
The film will shoot on location in, you guessed it, Shanghai.
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