Shanghai Kiss

Shanghai Kiss

Shanghai Kiss is a 2007 direct-to-DVD film directed by Kern Konwiser and David Ren. The film was released on DVD on October 9, 2007. Hayden Panettiere won the Feature Film Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival for her role as Adelaide. Liam Liu (Ken Leung), a Chinese American actor dwelling in Los Angeles, unwittingly gets involved with a high school girl. He suddenly has to go to China after learning from his father that he has inherited his grandmother's home in Shanghai. He is not very appreciative of his Chinese roots and at first only wants to sell the house and get back to the U.S. as fast as possible. He gets a taste of Chinese customs after meeting a girl there and ends up having some big decisions to make.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Stars: Ken Leung, Hayden Panettiere, Kelly Hu, Joel David Moore
Production: Anchor Bay Entertainment
  2 wins.
 
IMDB:
6.8
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NOT RATED
Year:
2007
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Joe Silverman:
Listen to yourself, man! You're moving to Shanghai for a girl! A *Chinese* girl for Godsakes!

Liam Liu:
This is not just about the girl.

Joe Silverman:
Then what is it?

Liam Liu:
It just -- it *feels* right! I'm Chinese. I gotta go back to my roots.

Joe Silverman:
[scoffs] All right, slow down, Kunta Kinte. You don't even speak Chinese. What the hell are you gonna do? What, drive a rickshaw?

Liam Liu:
I can learn Chinese.

Joe Silverman:
Learn Chinese?! Liam, you barely speak English!

Liam Liu:
Don't call me Liam. Liam's my slave name.

Joe Silverman:
Cute.

Liam Liu:
Every time I go out on something, Joe, it's always for some Kung Fu Deli Store Computer Chinese...

Joe Silverman:
You're a Chinese guy, you're gnna go for roles for little Chinese guys.

Liam Liu:
That is bullshit, I was born in New York, how about a role for somebody in New York?

Joe Silverman:
Nobody asked you to quit college and try your hands in the lucrative world of motion picture and television.

Liam Liu:
What am I gonna do with a degree, I'm gonna spend 8 hours a day, trapped in a little cubicle, making one of those desktop zen guards.

Adelaide Bourbon:
[to Liam] To Shanghai? Who moves to Shanghai? No one does that, no one moves to Shanghai!

Adelaide Bourbon:
I feel so shi**y now!

Adelaide Bourbon:
F*** Sugar Sally, f*** her up her sugary a**!

Casting Director:
So... you know Kung Fu?

Liam Liu:
[Caught off guard] Er...

Casting Director:
What Color belt are you?

Liam Liu:
Er... I... I... I don't have a belt. Oh... you know what I love? I love suspenders.

Casting Director:
You don't know martial arts?

Liam Liu:
No...

Casting Director:
It says on your resume that you know martial arts.

Liam Liu:
Is... is there martial arts in this commercial? I thought it was for toothpaste?

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