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The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.


A former spy in the Chinese Nationalist Party falls for an opium-dealing widow, as China is ravaged by war and revolution.

Sean Lau Ching-wan
Fang Daolong

Tang Wei
Chen Yuerong

Qin Hailu
Qiu

Jing Boran
Hua

Huang Jue
Master Zhou

Elaine Jin Yan-Ling
Yuerong's Mother

Li Jianyi
Daolong's Father

Jiao Gang
KMT Agent Chief

Philip Chan Yan-Kin
KMT Agent Chief

Wu Jing
Grandma Yue
A Tale of Three Cities is a drama, history, romance film released in 2015 exploring themes of chinese civil war, woman director, 1930s. Directed by Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting, it stars Sean Lau Ching-wan, Tang Wei, Qin Hailu. A former spy in the Chinese Nationalist Party falls for an opium-dealing widow, as China is ravaged by war and revolution.
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