Also in the film""s opening, framed by two windows, and standing side-by-side on the train to become reacquainted, the flirtatious and seemingly-dangerous ""Shanghai Lily"" (aka Magdalen) was reunited with her long-lost former lover - uniformed British Medical Corps surgeon Captain Donald ""Doc"" Harvey after five years and four weeks apart.After screening a phone call, Hammer answers and speaks to Velda - she is concerned about his safety.It is one of the greatest romantic earjerkers/weepers of all time, with a very downbeat ending.Lean""s film is a simple but realistically-honest, unsentimental, self-told social melodrama of the quiet desperation involved in an illicit, extra-marital love affair between two married, middle-class individuals over seven weekly meetings, mostly against the backdrop of a railway station.Ku responded by shooting and killing the general, and a massive gunfight broke out between the cops, the other Triad gang members, and the private army of the general.Meanwhile, the kidnapped Mariko was taken to her father Shingen back in Tokyo.in the midst of planning to head up his father""s corporation.(Outside, a group of Black Clan Ninjas, led by Harada and Viper, attacked Shingen""s Yakuza security guards one-by-one and neutralized them.