Beginning against the backdrop of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the inimitable Tsui Hark’s kinetic, ultra-stylish screwball comedy/historical romance/backstage musical—beautifully restored for the occasion of its fortieth anniversary—is one of the most zestily entertaining and exuberantly colorful works of 1980s Hong Kong cinema. Kenny Bee’s nightclub clown and would-be songwriter meets cute with chanteuse Sylvia Chang during a 1937 bombing raid, and the two make plans to find each other ten years later, only to have their reunion in devastated postwar Shanghai elaborately and often hilariously complicated by intervening fate. An incredibly tender and terribly funny film, with Cantopop diva Sally Yeh as Chang’s scatterbrained roommate.