It is 4 months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour and an American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai to discover that his friend has been killed. In the process of discovering the circumstances surrounding his death, he falls in love and also discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding. Shanghai, directed by Mikael Håfström, stars John Cusack, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and David Morse and was filmed on location in Bangkok and London.

LMO recently recorded Klaus Badelt’s score with a 40 piece string section (12 first violins, 10 seconds, 8 violas, 6 celli and 4 double basses) and a seperate brass session which involved 4 horns, 3 trombones and tuba. Tom Bowes led the orchestra, Pete Cobbin engineered and Chris Brooks was the music producer.

Shanghai is due for release by the Weinstein company in March 2010.

Shanghai from Andy Brown on Vimeo