The Weinstein Co. has set Ken Watanabe to join John Cusack and Gong Li in “
Shanghai,” a period drama that will begin shooting in China next month. Mikael Hafstrom, who helmed Cusack in the Dimension hit “1408,” will direct a script by Hossein Amini.
The drama, 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.